small town life. I understand why people drink.
So, I'm in a small town now, 2.5 hours away from home, and working 12 hour days. Last week I worked 6 days. It looks like this week we're going to get Saturday off, so that's awesome, but still. It makes for looooong weeks. The first week there were some speed bumps in construction, and I'm the bad guy that has to tell them that they're either doing it wrong or have to try to do something different, but ultimately it's going well and the crew that I'm working with is awesome.
However, as pretty and as peaceful as it is out here, there's really nothing to do in the fall. Once the snow falls I'll be able to go cross country skiing and skating, but until then... there's nothing. There's not even a gym in town. There's no chain restaurants, which is nice because then everything is family owned, but they're not usually open very late. That, and I've already eaten everywhere. I'm now living on left overs and becoming an expert on how to cook things in a microwave.
So, I decided to watch some TV seasons on DVD that I've never gotten around to finishing. I started with Alias.
I never actually finished watching Alias. I LOVED it for the first 3 seasons, and was fully in the fandom. Spy!Daddy and Spy!Mommy and the eye-liner of evil... these were the things that I LIVED for. I remember my sister, father and I gathering around the TV religiously waiting for the next episodes, and then discussing them and making theories and speculating... my mom would be in the other room saying, "but I don't understand, whose side is she on? And who is Rembaldi?" Actually, it's much the same when we gather on Wednesday nights. "Wait, why is there time travel? Where is this island anyway?" ::shakes head::
But I was totally into that fandom. There's some fanfic under a previous LJ name of mine out there, but I'm not anxious to look that up again. I can't stand looking at my old writing.
Then, somewhere around the end of the third season we just lost interest. I think it was because we decided we like our version of the story better (Sydney would have a sort of Jekyll vs. Hyde thing going on: the more she remembered the more her other personality would take over, or something like that. There's definitely a 3/4 finished fanfic on a floppy disk somewhere that had that as the story line... I wouldn't even know how to retrieve it if I found it.)
But seriously, I can't stop watching them. Since last Monday, I've watched the first 2 seasons. I'm so brain dead at the end of a 12 hour shift that it's so easy to just put on a disk and watch a few in a row. I'm certainly not going to be able to do anything productive at that point. And watching it again is making me remember so many of the good moments from watching it the first time... mostly of my sister and I yelling at the TV, "It's the teeth man! 1 in 5!!! 1 in 5!!!" or "... can they do that?" at the end of the superbowl episode. (anyone following what I'm saying?)
And in watching so many of these episodes (especially in a row), you can really see a lot of the story telling and stylistic similarities between Alias and Lost.
In retrospect, I guess it shouldn't have shocked me that much when Lost jumped forward 2 years.
Actually, I'm finding that watching Alias is better preparing me for the final season of Lost than rewatching all the Lost episodes, which was my original plan. Somehow, though, when packing for this job I managed to fit in the first season of Alias, and not the first season of Lost. Dear subconscious, I was fine with watching Alias, but you could have just told me that it's what I wanted to watch.
This is the first day that I've actually had internet. I've tried a few different hotels, and while the one I'm in isn't the best, it's the only one so far that my computer has connected to. It's slow, and it's sketchy, but it's better than the one where I had to sit on the floor in the lobby to connect. Yes, this is how I rate hotels. Not proximity to the job site, not cleanliness or comfort, but if I can access the internet.
This is going to be a looooong project. And even if the project itself goes quickly, it's going to feel long.
Onward to season 3! (I wish I still had Alias icons)
However, as pretty and as peaceful as it is out here, there's really nothing to do in the fall. Once the snow falls I'll be able to go cross country skiing and skating, but until then... there's nothing. There's not even a gym in town. There's no chain restaurants, which is nice because then everything is family owned, but they're not usually open very late. That, and I've already eaten everywhere. I'm now living on left overs and becoming an expert on how to cook things in a microwave.
So, I decided to watch some TV seasons on DVD that I've never gotten around to finishing. I started with Alias.
I never actually finished watching Alias. I LOVED it for the first 3 seasons, and was fully in the fandom. Spy!Daddy and Spy!Mommy and the eye-liner of evil... these were the things that I LIVED for. I remember my sister, father and I gathering around the TV religiously waiting for the next episodes, and then discussing them and making theories and speculating... my mom would be in the other room saying, "but I don't understand, whose side is she on? And who is Rembaldi?" Actually, it's much the same when we gather on Wednesday nights. "Wait, why is there time travel? Where is this island anyway?" ::shakes head::
But I was totally into that fandom. There's some fanfic under a previous LJ name of mine out there, but I'm not anxious to look that up again. I can't stand looking at my old writing.
Then, somewhere around the end of the third season we just lost interest. I think it was because we decided we like our version of the story better (Sydney would have a sort of Jekyll vs. Hyde thing going on: the more she remembered the more her other personality would take over, or something like that. There's definitely a 3/4 finished fanfic on a floppy disk somewhere that had that as the story line... I wouldn't even know how to retrieve it if I found it.)
But seriously, I can't stop watching them. Since last Monday, I've watched the first 2 seasons. I'm so brain dead at the end of a 12 hour shift that it's so easy to just put on a disk and watch a few in a row. I'm certainly not going to be able to do anything productive at that point. And watching it again is making me remember so many of the good moments from watching it the first time... mostly of my sister and I yelling at the TV, "It's the teeth man! 1 in 5!!! 1 in 5!!!" or "... can they do that?" at the end of the superbowl episode. (anyone following what I'm saying?)
And in watching so many of these episodes (especially in a row), you can really see a lot of the story telling and stylistic similarities between Alias and Lost.
In retrospect, I guess it shouldn't have shocked me that much when Lost jumped forward 2 years.
Actually, I'm finding that watching Alias is better preparing me for the final season of Lost than rewatching all the Lost episodes, which was my original plan. Somehow, though, when packing for this job I managed to fit in the first season of Alias, and not the first season of Lost. Dear subconscious, I was fine with watching Alias, but you could have just told me that it's what I wanted to watch.
This is the first day that I've actually had internet. I've tried a few different hotels, and while the one I'm in isn't the best, it's the only one so far that my computer has connected to. It's slow, and it's sketchy, but it's better than the one where I had to sit on the floor in the lobby to connect. Yes, this is how I rate hotels. Not proximity to the job site, not cleanliness or comfort, but if I can access the internet.
This is going to be a looooong project. And even if the project itself goes quickly, it's going to feel long.
Onward to season 3! (I wish I still had Alias icons)