junkie

I can get really obsessive/invested in shows (if you hadn't noticed)... though it's not the cool shows (i.e. 24, House, Dexter, etc.) but the ones others would be embarrassed of watching.

However Glee, I would say, is quite trendy nowadays and more mainstream than I thought it would've been when I first started watching it. I honestly didn't think so many people would enjoy tv shows where the characters would break out into song & dance.

And with the magnificent creation of twitter, I can follow the actors of Glee and see that they're all hanging out with each other & such (hmm... this doesn't make me sound like a loser/stalker, does it?) But it seems as though they are a really tight-knit group... not gonna lie~ makes me kinda jealous.

I actually had a dream last week that I was cast as "the Asian girl" in Glee because the girl who normally plays her (Jenna Ushkowitz... I wonder if she's adopted?) had swine flu. Also in my dream, Artie (or the actor that plays him) had a huge crush on me. I was really confused about how I felt about him, and I even woke up feeling somewhat conflicted.

I feel like Glee filled the role that Degrassi: The Next Generation played in my heart all those years. I seriously watched every single episode up until season 7 (or was it 8?) when everyone started going off to college. I have learned (from multiple cases) that when a high school series sends their kids off to college, the show is headed towards doomsville.

I felt like I grew up with those kids... I have experienced their first periods, their first encounter with drugs (when Ashley took ecstasy... that was hilarious), their first relationships, their first jobs, their first fight, their first cars, their first time having sex, their first pregnancy, their first abortion, their coming-out-of-the-closet moment, their first bi-curious moment, their first shooting, their first death (noo~~ JT), their first affair with a teacher, their first encounter with an online predator, and so on.

Yeah it's been 100% intense. It's a Canadian show, and I have yet to see an American show quite like it. It has all the melodrama and controversy of 90210 yet the cheese and naivete of Saved by the Bell. And I have to say that the actors on this show had the best transitioning through puberty... they were such awkward, weird looking little kids, but they all grew up to be really hot teenagers!

I recently came across an episode on TeenNick (they changed the name of the channel) of season 9, and most of the characters were unrecognizable. Plus, they all looked like babies. Blech. Though that Sav Bhandari is pretty cute.

So it was also quite a shocker when I saw lil Jimmy Brooks on some rap video on t.v. All the kids are growing up and expanding their horizons. Darcy's now on 90210... Mia Jones is on Vampire Diaries. They've all graduated and grown up quite nicely.

facebook is the devil!

I think I've said this sometime before, but I guess I have this sudden urge to reiterate it.

I think Joyce said it best when she said it's like tabloids for the normal folks you know... or people you don't really know that well at all.

Just like how Star or InTouch can make you feel like you "know" famous stars to some extent, Facebook gives you this entitled feeling that you know certain people, making everyone into your B.F.F. as well as a mini-celebrity.

Just the other day, I saw this guy who I never, ever formally met (but I believe we have mutual friends), and we just kind of looked at each other for an uncomfortable amount of time (I think he was trying to figure where he remembered me from). We were both like... "Uhh... I know you from somewhere..."

Except the sad thing is I knew where I knew him from, but was too embarrassed to say it. I've seen him in photos of friends on Facebook. And I'm sure he knew me from Facebook too! Kind of unsettling...

And we've become celebrities in the sense that there are all these unwarranted photos of ourselves floating in cyberspace that we can't remove. Yeah, we can untag ourselves all we want, but they'll still be there!

Yeah okay, Facebook does have its good qualities... like setting up Events or getting in touch with old friends. But then again, I feel I have less of a desire to see people that I would otherwise miss, since I get the latest scoop of their lives on FB neway. Also, I get to see all these cool things and places other people are doing. Though I don't know if that's a good thing, since it makes my life seem rather mediocre in comparison (that's actually probably more my fault than anyone else's...) But really how do these people have the time & moolah to travel the world?!?! It really stirs up the wanderlust in my sad, yearning soul.

Oh, and FB really needs to stop suggesting who I should be friends with. If I really wanted to friend him, I would've added him already. So leave me alone! Stop trying to run my life.