ponderings + elementary thoughts

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I met up with a friend for lunch today who I haven't seen all summer. She's doing her MA at the university we both went to for our undergrad, so she started classes yesterday. We ended up walking to a coffee shop near campus and chilling there for a while. It was pretty weird. My university is right downtown, so I pass it a lot when I'm in that

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I still buy school supplies and I've been out of school for years now. LOL, I just call them work supplies instead. I just wish I had more use for notebooks, and folders. At work I mostly just use steno notebooks, and they're usually pretty boring.

Ugh, the procedural aspect is what is making me kind of doubtful about Elementary. I mean, I've wanted to get into Castle for years, but the procedural crime-of-the-week format is what's kind of been preventing me. I'll probably watch an episode or two of Elementary when it premieres to see if I can get into it.

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Yeah I like school supply stuff but have no use for it lol. I am not buying it in grief, though.

I wouldn't usually check out a procedural but all the wank about Elementary has me interested enough to give it a shot. If there's enough emphasis on the main characters, I could see it being pretty interesting. I mean, Sherlock Holmes is always going to be something of a procedural. Sherlock is as well. That's how detective stories are. But if they keep up enough of an emotional plotline, it's not so bad.

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I didn't really buy too many school supplies even when i was in school tbh. Lmao, my last semester was spent using a pad of paper for both classes and being terribly disorganized because of it, but I think that's largely a senioritis thing.

Yeah if there's enough focus on the characters/their relationship I can see it staying interesting. I really liked Holmes and Watson and their interaction in this ep, so I'm curious to see how it develops, and I think they set up both characters with plenty of future development etc to go through.

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I am automatically conditioned to click on "spoilers" when you post about them, but I really want to watch Elementary! I really don't like procedural shows (the exception is The Good Wife, though I don't know how procedure-y that actually is), but I might soldier through just because I want Elementary to do well.

I took a practice LSAT last week just to give myself a direction. I do miss classes and Intellectual Talking About Things, but right now I prefer being an adult. I'd much prefer to be an adult with a job, but you know ...

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LOLLLLL i am the same re: Elementary. I would likely not have ever checked it out if it weren't for the surrounding fandom wank and such, but here we are! Anyway I thought it was good. The pilot I saw was a leak, so the show doesn't air for another few weeks yet.

I think if I had a job I might not really miss school. I don't know. I don't think I missed school when I was working, but before when I was working I was only doing it for 4-month stretches, so ti's hard to say. I wish I could just be a part-time student forever because my last semester was the life, lol. Two classes I was interested in made a small enough course load that I was never particularly stressed.

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LOL RIGHT? I'm all about supporting things that are Not Moffatt. It's a passive, semi-productive kind of trolling.

What's weird about school for me is that I frequently miss the academics, but at the end the environment got too much for me. I enjoyed the perks of student life that involved being on my own (getting up late, doing whatever the fuck I wanted) but was socially feeling really tired of my friend group and of Stanford in general. So when I think about school, I do wish I was still ~living the life~ and taking certain classes - I just can't imagine being back in that environment. IDK perhaps it would be different if I had gone to a different university.

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I was never very involved in school which I think combines to make me a) not miss it as much as some but also b) not have enough traumatic memories to make me super relieved to be done. I don't miss the stress but I do miss the productivity and towards the end of my degree when I was finally taking classes I wanted to be taking, I liked lectures and stuff. I really liked my seminars. IDK how your school worked so I don't know if you had "seminars" or even if you did what those were like, but I quite liked them.

oh and I fully endorse doing anything that might make Steven Moffat mad somewhere.

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I'm back in school now and my greatest joy right now is watching all the first years try to adapt. It's nice because they haven't discovered the best hang-out spots yet, so I get to lounge around in the comfy chairs.

I don't really like crime procedurals at all but I want Elementary to be super fabulous and popular so that the internet can shut the fuck up.

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lol I was taking the bus home from downtown on Monday and I caught it at the campus stop and it was flooded with people from frosh week. GROSS TBH.

IKR. To quote someone on ONTD, I want 9 seasons, a movie, a theme park, and Elementary: Miami and Elementary: Las Vegas.

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I'm finally doing the practicum part of my degree, and oddly enough don't miss classes... I know what you mean about the "responsible adult" grace period while in school though. Mine has been extended until next summer when I'm done my internship.

Elementary sounds better than I expected! I might have to check it out. If nothing else, at least it has the dubious honour of having spawned some epic wank.

Also, awesome necklace!

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Yeah I did co-op and I didn't really miss class when I was working. I don't think I miss school exactly so much as I miss productiveness. And having an excuse for not having a job, lol.

Elementary was pretty good. I hope it'll do well on CBS.

Ty!