Vampire Diaries season finale

Was not expecting that Vampire Diaries season finale twist but soooo glad it happened.  Actually both twists.  Less happy about the Silas twist.  I think the cure twist will make the show even more interesting.

Office Farewell

I was pleasantly surprised by this season of The Office. Last two seasons were not very good. I hated Robert California. And it took me a while to warm up to Nellie. Tonight's episode was everything a farewell episode should be: filled with laughs and tears,but most of all memorable. It felt like we were saying goodbye to friends and family, which is just how it should be—after all we did spend 9 years getting close to these characters, watching then grow. I'm sad that in the future, when this episode is played on syndication, they will cut out 15min of it, since the episode was 75min (with commercials). I can't really think of a single scene that should be cut. 

Last day at work!!

In the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson: Woohoo!!!

And I finished watching season 2 of Bob's Burgers :)

Dropping like flies

I ran into a student I hadn't seen in awhile; that student is getting a PhD in another department but a professor from my department was their advisor.  The student told me that they decided to leve their PhD program with a masters (I think after 5 years in the program) because they were fed up with all the bullshit and egos.  The student found their dream job and is starting in a couple weeks.  That makes eight students in the five years I've been in the program.  Two of those students were working with advisors in my department who had joint appointments but the students were actually part of another department.  It's depressing.

Another great Ralphism

I watched Simpsons last and I forgot to post my favorite Ralph line, so here it is:

Slava runs over Ralph's tricycle (with Ralph on it).  Marge and Slava run out of the car to see the damage.  Ralph climbs off of his destroyed tricycle and says:

"My daddy said I was an accident" and skips off into the distance

Ah, that Ralph :)

Bob's Burger: The Unnatural

Wow!  Bob has totally lost it!  In tonight's episode, "The Unnatural", Linda pawned Bob's beloved new espresso machine inorder to raise $500 to get Gene lessons with a sham baseball coach.  During the final confrontation with the fraud coach, Bob said if Gene couldn't hit the ball the coach should give the Belchers a refund.  During the game Bob actually rooted for Gene to lose!!  He was crazy insane with his chants and even fighting with Linda over Gene's swing.  Because Bob is just that unlucky, of course, Gene hit the ball in a fluke accident.  Bob continued arguing with Linda about how the hit didn't mean anything and that it was just luck but could not be replicated again, all while the baseball coach was driving off with everyone's money... I can't blame Bob for finally cracking, he does have a pretty crappy family...

Oh and let's not forget about Tina.  I gotta say, I kinda like caffeinated Tina, she has way more personality than regular Tina and caffeine-withdrawal Tina is a no nonsense hardass gal.  Do not get on her bad side!  She ruthlessly smashed her mother's beloved ceramic doll figurines to get to the bottom of the mystery of the missing espresso machine.  I think that was the best Tina moment in the series thus far.

Best line:

Linda is brainstorming how to raise the $500 for Gene. Louise to Linda: You can sell your soul.  I did and I'm fine. *eye's twitching*...That line explains so much at Louise. 

Abs

These are definitely going to hurt, enjoy!:
http://health.yahoo.net/articles/fitness/photos/5-minute-abs-proven-lab#0

Fall 2013 TV update

A lot of changes to my Fall 2013 TV schedule.

Canceled shows:

Go On (it had it's moments)

The New Normal (meh)

Whitney (marathoned on Hulu last week)

Happy Endings (possible pick-up by another network)

1600 Penn (so sad about this one, it was so funny)

Final season:

Burn Notice (great show, but the story doesn't have much else to go since they achieved most of their goals)

Nikita (WTH CW!  WTH!)

Psych (my favorite TV theme song, always put a smile on my face) :(

The Originals

Finally, an Originals Preview!  I'm kind of excited about the new show.

Supernatural: Clip Show

Supernatural spoilers:

So many good things!

Season 2 of Bob's Burger is on Netflix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Guess we know what I'll be streaming tonight and tomorrow night!  I've seen a third of the season 2 episodes.

In other news, I basically told my advisor to suck it.  Not in those exact words, of course.

Reconnecting with an old friend

I feel like I need to rediscover myself; more precisely, what hobbies I enjoy.  So this weekend I started knitting again and I tried to find some more geocaches.  I also went hiking with a friend.  Hmmm....what else did I do...I watched shows on Hulu and Netflix.  I think I want to get back into photography and computer programming.  I used to be really good with computers.  I still am good, but I used to design webpages and do programming...I'm really out of touch with new programming languages.  I really want to learn iOS...I wonder how difficult that would be.  I used to know C, C++, Java, and HTML...I know ancient history compared to how much things have changed.  I'll look into these after I get back from my trip.  Don't worry, the two people who read my blog, I won't be leave just yet and I shan't be gone for long!

Here's Maru!

I got my mom addicted to YouTube videos of the Japanese cat Maru.  If you don't know who Maru is, you've ben living under a rock.  He's as or more famous than Grumpy cat.  Check out Maru's YouTube videos, but be forewarned, it's hard to stop!

Improvements

Today I think I finally got my "friend" interested in exercising with me weekly :)  There are some crazy stairs near our home and we did some of them.  I think we can build up to the whole thing slowly.  I've done all of them before, but I don't mind taking it slower.  It's really important to do interactive activities together, lately things have strained because we've both been super stressed out.  Now that things are less hectic and we have more time together, I think it's the perfect opportunity to introduce healthy behaviors into our relationship.  Maybe we should also do interactive board games and things like that too.

Scientifically accurate TMNT

This post is about turtle anatomy.

Tabata

I saw a clip on Yahoo this morning about Tabata training, it sounds really interesting.

Spoiled

I went to the dine-in movie theater again today.  I used discount tickets so I wouldn't have to pay the full price ($19!!).  And it worked out perfectly because I was really hungry, so I had dinner and movie simultaneously :)  I'm getting used to this decadent lifestyle :)