Sunday, January 08, 2006
I'm a lousy blogger. Not because I can't write or recant various stories from my life, but rather because I have no desire to actually sit down and write when everything worth writing about is going on.
I have become completely obsessed with House thanks to Heidi having me watch the first four episodes with her last weekend. Thanks to the wonders of high-speed internet, an indexed news group reader, and 9 megabits of expendable bandwidth I have downloaded the entire first season. I can't even remember the last time that I was interested enough in a TV show to download an entire season of it. Actually, the last TV show that I did download en masse like this would have been Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but I digress.
The most likely reason I like this show so much is because I see way too much of myself in Dr. House. Maybe it isn't that I see myself as I am now in him, but rather the part of my own id that wants to be like him. The power his character projects in the field of diagnostic medicine is incredible. He rarely doubts himself because he trusts in his judgement and experience. He is nothing short of a vicodin addicted raving egomaniac. I trust in my judgement, but I'm definitely not addicted to anything. I'm also not an experienced diagnostician. However, give me 25 or so years and I definitely could see myself in that position.
Scarrier yet, I could see myself *with* someone like that. I must admit, Hugh Laurie is a damned attractive man given his age. Watching the show I can't help but empathize with Cameron on her attraction to him. There is something incredibly sexy about that level of self-confidence and his ability to more-or-less play God with these people. Is this an attraction to power?
In other news life is good. Application for CMU is off, minus Dr. Sen's recommendation letter. I'm going to try and get him to submit it with an apologee for its lateness. Hopefully they'll understand... Damned professors and their notorious lateness! They claim that they get initial acceptances back around February 1st. If I'm crying on Feb. 1 you'll know why. Granted, if I'm accepted you'll also see me with an incredible smile of smug satisfaction. I'm going to go with Heidi on this one when I say I don't know how I can't get in given my research background...but, who knows. Sometimes things just aren't in the cards.
As always, there are a thousand other things going on that I just don't feel like writing about at the moment. Invite me to coffee (tea really) for the unabridged versions of everything.
I have become completely obsessed with House thanks to Heidi having me watch the first four episodes with her last weekend. Thanks to the wonders of high-speed internet, an indexed news group reader, and 9 megabits of expendable bandwidth I have downloaded the entire first season. I can't even remember the last time that I was interested enough in a TV show to download an entire season of it. Actually, the last TV show that I did download en masse like this would have been Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but I digress.
The most likely reason I like this show so much is because I see way too much of myself in Dr. House. Maybe it isn't that I see myself as I am now in him, but rather the part of my own id that wants to be like him. The power his character projects in the field of diagnostic medicine is incredible. He rarely doubts himself because he trusts in his judgement and experience. He is nothing short of a vicodin addicted raving egomaniac. I trust in my judgement, but I'm definitely not addicted to anything. I'm also not an experienced diagnostician. However, give me 25 or so years and I definitely could see myself in that position.
Scarrier yet, I could see myself *with* someone like that. I must admit, Hugh Laurie is a damned attractive man given his age. Watching the show I can't help but empathize with Cameron on her attraction to him. There is something incredibly sexy about that level of self-confidence and his ability to more-or-less play God with these people. Is this an attraction to power?
In other news life is good. Application for CMU is off, minus Dr. Sen's recommendation letter. I'm going to try and get him to submit it with an apologee for its lateness. Hopefully they'll understand... Damned professors and their notorious lateness! They claim that they get initial acceptances back around February 1st. If I'm crying on Feb. 1 you'll know why. Granted, if I'm accepted you'll also see me with an incredible smile of smug satisfaction. I'm going to go with Heidi on this one when I say I don't know how I can't get in given my research background...but, who knows. Sometimes things just aren't in the cards.
As always, there are a thousand other things going on that I just don't feel like writing about at the moment. Invite me to coffee (tea really) for the unabridged versions of everything.
# posted by Chris/Stewy @ Sunday, January 08, 2006 
