what may or may not be hard reality

I've been meaning to blog for a while now. But really, life is mostly work, which is interesting and satisfying, but not something that makes me wanna blog (and also that non-disclosure agreement I signed), and as for TV, at the moment, the hour I most look forward to is Men in Trees, which just started up here again. Which saddens me a bit. Not hugely, or anything, I'm very fond of Men in Trees (for reasons I haven't quite untangled yet, but I'm sure they're there), but in these days of new L Word episodes that I've waited almost a year for, 30 Rock, We're Getting Nowhere recapping what I thought would be my favourite show and all the other awesome AfterEllen vlogs, Ellen's writers being back from the strike, Women's Murder Club, and Cashmere Mafia there is something sad about my favourite show being about a straight city girl relationship coach stuck in the woods with a bunch of very quirky characters.

Now, 30 Rock has an excuse. I only have a few episodes left of my 1st season DVD set, and I know once I've watched those I'll have to wait until fall for season 2 to appear. So I'm trying to back off it a little, because I enjoy the feeling of having episodes yet to watch.

As for Ellen, well, the obsession is going on a year and a half now, and is starting to mellow out a little. I adore her, and Portia, and the show is funny, but when you've seen a few hundred of them they're starting to seem pretty darn alike. These days I mostly just tape them and wait for the forum to tell me what parts I should watch (because there's too much going on to find the time every day to watch an entire show).

Women's Murder Club and Cashmere Mafia have failed to hold my interest. No big surprise there. Women's Murder Club is straighter than Men in Trees, which is really sad because the first is a crime drama/comedy/whatever and the second is mostly a relationship comedy. Cashmere Mafia started out relatively well, but it got to where storyline after storyline got unwatchable, until I was fastforwarding more than I was watching, and the only reason I watched was because Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville are gorgeous, and then I might just as well look at pictures.

The runner-up for biggest disappointment is The L Word. It doesn't take home the big prize because it really has only followed its usual pattern. I look forward to it so, and then I really enjoy the first 3 episodes or so, and then it starts going downhill. This season I'm really into TiBette, of course, but I get so sad when I think about how much it will hurt Jodi, and Alice freaks me out these day, and I hate hate hate Jenny, and Cybill who? And Helena's not even around these days. MAJOR suckage about Helena. Again, I just save the episodes, and then wait for scribegrrrl to recap so I can go watch the scenes I think I'll like.

The major disappointment totally has to be the We're Getting Nowhere recaps of The L Word. I was looking forward to this something fierce, which is of course why it's so disappointing to find I don't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. And it's not that I don't love Karman, Jill, and Dara, I do! It's just that I don't agree with them. They love the scenes I hated and fastforwarded through, and they don't care about my favourite characters, and they roll their eyes at the stuff I adore. They're still brilliant as ever, but when they were recapping South of Nowhere and Top Model I had never watched either of these shows so what they were saying didn't matter to me, I could just enjoy them being hilarious. Now when they're doing The L Word I get all riled up and sad that they don't talk about the stuff I cared about in the episodes, and then I roll my eyes and shiver in pain when they go on and on about how much they loved a scene that I absolutely hated. *weepies*

So Men in Trees it is. Anne Heche is pretty, and adorable, and quirky, and a lot of fun. Suleka Mathews is *gorgeous*. Sarah Strange is quirky and cute. Scenery is pretty, too. And the show is easy on the eyes, and easy on the mind, doesn't deal much in angst or embarrassment, and is a perfectly harmless funny little show. Why isn't next week here yet?

(Also, if they went and signed that Arrested Development movie deal, that would totally make my day.)

Urgh. So I didn't sleep all that much last night, because there were things that needed to be done, and, naturally, I was the only one who could do them. So I get home from work, drink a cup of warm milk to unwind, and figure I can nap for an hour, or two. I've barely put my head on the pillow when the phone rings, (of course, but really, people usually don't call me when I'm sleeping (unless it's 7am, and it's from work telling me they need me)). And it goes on like that. In one hour I got 4 phone calls, and twice the doorbell rang. ARGH! I finally gave up on sleep, because I was pretty much wide awake, and watched the latest episode of We're Getting Nowhere instead, and, naturally, in the last hour, there hasn't been a single peep out of the world, not even e-mail. Why, world, why??

However, Jill is back on We're Getting Nowhere this week, so all is right with the world. Seriously, two weeks ago when she wasn't around, things were not right with the world. I love Karman, and Dara, and Bridget was hilarious and adorable, but it was not the same without Jill. I had no idea I was that attached to her. (In comparison, I re-watched that first episode that was only Jill and Karman, and that did not feel right either. It's amazing how attached I've gotten to all three of them.) Bridget is a lot of fun, though, I'll definitely be watching her vlog come spring! Yay with so many vlogs! And Dara/Karman/Jill taking on The L Word. I can't wait. OMG. It's like, it's the best thing that could ever happen. Seriously.

And also, how can you fail to know that Ellen is a lesbian? Like, seriously? A boy I'm acquainted with was standing next to me yesterday as I booted up my computer, and I've got a sweet little wallpaper of Ellen & Porta wrapped around each other at some red carpet or other, and the conversation went something like this:

dude: "Who are they? Oh, that's Ellen DeGeneres!"
me: "Yep!"
dude: "Who's the other chick?"
me: "Her girlfriend!"
dude: "Huh?" (I do think he actually just didn't hear me, the room was noisy)
me: "Her girlfriend!!"
dude: "She's a lesbian?!?"
me: "Totally."
dude: "I had no idea!"
me: "Uh. Well. She is!"

Like, I guess it's a good thing that Ellen is known way above and beyond her sexuality, but still, for someone who is so very out, how do you miss that? I can understand having no idea about Jodie, or Sarah Paulson, or even Portia (maybe even Melissa Etheridge), but where does one learn who Ellen is without that somewhere telling you she's a lesbian? Good on you, unknown reporting source!

eta: Seriously? How much do I love Jill? And Karman? And Dara? My heart is a little broken because I'm not gonna see them for an entire month. :(