Saturday, 30 Jan 2010

-- One of my favorite things to eat in the afternoon is yogurt, usually with cereal (and fruit). There are a lot of things I enjoy eating, but there's something about yogurt that makes me feel very peaceful afterwards. Maybe it's something about the dairy -- there's not a lot of other dairy that I eat (besides ice cream, which is so sugary it shouldn't count).

-- I don't have a TV, but I do have a big iMac, so if I'm at home, I usually watch something on Hulu in the evening. Pretty much all of the shows I like are on Hulu (with the exception of How I Met Your Mother, although I can watch that on the network's website), so I'm used to watching programs at least a day after they've aired. Even before I got rid of my TV, I'd lived with a digital recorder since 2005, so it's been a while since I had to worry about watching something when it aired. Since I'm at the cabin, which has normal (satellite) TV, I was able to watch Bones at 7:00 on Thursday. Oh my gosh, the pressure! I was convinced it would start before I could tune in, so I couldn't stop looking at the clock.

-- Another drawback to watching television like a normal human being is that you have to watch so many commercials! I'm used to seeing one ad during the commercial break, that's all. And, you guys, the McDonald's Big Mac snack wrap thing? That is one of the most disgusting ideas I've ever heard (as far as food goes). I don't eat at McDonald's (I hardly ever eat at fast food places, just because it's not my thing, but I very purposefully don't eat at McDonald's), but what other people do is their business. However, if you've had one of those wrap things -- especially if you ordered it thinking it was a 'snack' or some sort of healthy alternative -- well... I'm very disappointed in you. That might make me a huge snob, but at least I'm not a Big-Mac-wrap-eatin' snob. Shudder.

-- One of the neat things about cable satellite TV is that the cable networks syndicate shows. Three episodes of Bones in a row? Yes, please! Also, is That 70s Show ever going to seem less funny? I mean, a lot of Friends episodes seem a bit tired when I watch them now (maybe that's because I've seen them too many hundreds of times, though), but That 70s Show is holding up really well. Perhaps it's because it was 'dated' to begin with.

-- I met up with an 'old' friend today, somebody I studied in Scotland with. We were both super excited and had a great time reminiscing, and we realized that we'd never seen each other on American soil. There's something wonderful about getting together with somebody who shared such an important part of your life with you; I can tell my other friends stories from my time in Scotland, but none of them really knows what it was like. Too bad he lives in Duluth, which is about three hours from the Twin Cities, so I can't hang out with him as much as I'd like. We're going to try to go snow-shoeing sometime, though, if he can find show-shoes for me to borrow. That's the sort of thing they do up north.