This is crazy. I’m swimming in work. I’ve been getting up at 5:00 am and going to bed at midnight all week trying to get things for work and for the conference and a few other things all done. It isn’t like I had a spare hour tonight – but I splurged anyway. I watched the last half of Grey’s Anatomy and ER.
I’ve never been a big Grey’s Anatomy fan – but after blogging about that a few months ago, and the mountain of dismayed e-mail I got in response, I’ve given the show a second look. Confession time – it’s growing on me. I thought tonight’s show was a little on the overly dramatic side, but the mother/daughter plot line was particularly good. Who doesn’t try their best to live up to a parent’s expectation – and how hard it is when you feel you just didn’t turn out like your parents had planned. I’m supposed to be making way more money and living in suburbia, married with 2.5 kids in a spotless house. Oh well. So much for that!
I didn’t turn out exactly as I’d planned either. In my scenario I was supposed to live this fascinating expatriate life as a globetrotting journalist/mother. I look back at the way I thought my life would one day be and laugh. HPS and its impact aside – my observation of most globetrotting journalists is that they’re horrible at relationships and they drink too much – hardly a recipe for marriage bliss. But, it might have been nice to have had one or the other.
ER was also a bit on the overly dramatic side, but still, really good.
My question is, why is this the one show I actually make time to watch? What’s the attraction? Like I don’t have enough real life medical drama in my life, I’ve got to watch made up tragedy on TV? But, I’m a sucker. Most people know better than to call me at 9:00 pm on a Thursday night. I’ve been hooked since college when the series first started and was groundbreaking for its use of roaming camera angles.
But, there it is. We all have our weaknesses I guess.
I’ve never been a big Grey’s Anatomy fan – but after blogging about that a few months ago, and the mountain of dismayed e-mail I got in response, I’ve given the show a second look. Confession time – it’s growing on me. I thought tonight’s show was a little on the overly dramatic side, but the mother/daughter plot line was particularly good. Who doesn’t try their best to live up to a parent’s expectation – and how hard it is when you feel you just didn’t turn out like your parents had planned. I’m supposed to be making way more money and living in suburbia, married with 2.5 kids in a spotless house. Oh well. So much for that!
I didn’t turn out exactly as I’d planned either. In my scenario I was supposed to live this fascinating expatriate life as a globetrotting journalist/mother. I look back at the way I thought my life would one day be and laugh. HPS and its impact aside – my observation of most globetrotting journalists is that they’re horrible at relationships and they drink too much – hardly a recipe for marriage bliss. But, it might have been nice to have had one or the other.
ER was also a bit on the overly dramatic side, but still, really good.
My question is, why is this the one show I actually make time to watch? What’s the attraction? Like I don’t have enough real life medical drama in my life, I’ve got to watch made up tragedy on TV? But, I’m a sucker. Most people know better than to call me at 9:00 pm on a Thursday night. I’ve been hooked since college when the series first started and was groundbreaking for its use of roaming camera angles.
But, there it is. We all have our weaknesses I guess.
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