Today is a fake Massachusetts holiday that is ostensibly to celebrate the anniversary of Lexington/Concord but is ACTUALLY Marathon Monday and some people legitimately need the day off because traffic but everyone else is just like MARATHON!!! or I LIKE DAYS OFF!!! But uhhh other than elementary school/high school when I always had the day off, I've never thought of it as an actual holiday? Eric said on Saturday that he might not be at trivia tonight because it's Patriots Day and it honestly makes as much sense to me as him saying "I might not be at trivia on Monday because Sacramento is the capital of California." THE BOSTON MARATHON IS A THING THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE, BASICALLY, the only sporting events I care about are Sean's teeball and soccer games and the occasional baseball season. Which is why everyone else took the day off and it's just me and Dan in the office today, because YES I could have the day off but I could ALSO get paid to tool around online, make reminder calls, and type addresses into a giant spreadsheet all day. WORKS FOR ME!!!
THINGS GOING ON WITH ME:
1. Maeve is in France! Or Spain, one of those, APPARENTLY they're next to each other, who knew. [CALLBACK!] The best thing about this is that I can do laundry whenever I want. MAEVE DOES LIKE FOUR LOADS OF LAUNDRY A WEEK. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT'S POSSIBLE. She is ALWAYS. DOING. LAUNDRY. And she's super particular about it too, the amount of stuff she hangs up to dry is NUTS to me. I DON'T EVEN SEPARATE MY COLORS UNLESS SOMETHING IS BEING WASHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. One time a week or two ago I nearly MURDERED her because she had a basket of wet laundry just sitting there, so before I put my stuff in the washer I gave her the heads up that I'd be taking the dryer in about 45 minutes if she wanted to put her stuff in, and when I came up to transfer everything to the dryer SHE WAS JUST PUTTING HER SHIT IN, AND THEN SHE HAD TO RUN IT TWICE! I HAD TO WAIT LIKE TWO HOURS! It was okay, though, because when I was finishing up at ASS O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING I took all of her carefully-spaced hang drying clothes and shoved them all together. SATISFACTION.
2.
disco_vendetta wrote 10 Things I Hate About You fic because she is the Julian Baker to my Brooke Davis, WRITING HERSELF INTO MY HISTORY AND POSTING FIC FOR ALL THE PAST FANDOMS THAT NEVER GAVE ME WHAT I NEEDED.
Six Times One of the Stratford Sisters Got Kissed, Got Wise, or Got Married. IT'S BIANCA/JOEY, KAT/PATRICK, BUT MOSTLY STRATFORD/SISTERS FUTUREFIC, I KNOW ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE BUT TRY TO BE CALM ABOUT IT, GUYS!!!!
3. Young Justice is a thing I am still internally exploding over. I watched it with Sean yesterday and was genuinely annoyed with him for not properly appreciating the emotional magnificence of the cave scenes. HE'S FOUR. I'M NORMAL.
4.
empressearwig was asking for people's top five TV seasons on Twitter yesterday, and that ended with me playing Grey's Anatomy Roulette on Netflix. YOU SCROLL DOWN TO S2 IN THE EPISODE LIST, CLOSE YOUR EYES, AND TAP ON ONE AT RANDOM. IT'S GREAT BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS WIN, THEY ARE ALL THE BEST EPISODE. Except the last couple. They were undeniably HUGE at the time, but uh, all I see when I watch them now is THE SHOW GOING OFF THE RAILS and beginning its inescapable life as a show that writes the SHIT out of its characters but cannot come up with any arcs that aren't terrible and insane and nine billion episodes longer than they should be. SUPER EXCITED THOUGH, IN LIKE A MONTH I GET TO DEVOUR SEASON SEVEN! [I need a minimum one-year buffer at all times. It works for me.]
ETA 5. ALSO REMEMBER THAT BLOG I SUPPOSEDLY HAVE? Gainful employment is seriously limiting my contributions to the internet, you guys. Anyway, I did end up finishing out the One Tree Hill season, if you didn't already know:
908-912, and
the series finale. For the immediate future, I have plans to post about the greatest TV show ever made, and also to assemble an exhaustive update on what Chad Michael Murray is up to these days because it is all very important and fascinating. THEN IT'LL PROBABLY JUST BE ALL ABOUT RANDOM SHIT I FIND ON NETFLIX.