New Jobs and TV and DECORA!!!!

I think most of you know already, but on my last day at Vanier, I interviewed at John Abbott College. They were doing their interviews on Thursday, but I had to go in on Monday because I was going to be in Louisiana on Thursday. They were sooooooo nice to work everything out so that they could do the interview on Monday, especially since I was giving a final that night, and my Monday wasn't exactly flexible.

So then I went to Louisiana, and on Friday morning, I got an e-mail saying that they had picked me for the job and that I was their unanimous first choice!! I thought the interview went well, but still, I was surprised that they picked me (for a daytime position!!!!), when I have so little experience. Anyway, the atmosphere at the interview was super nice, and everyone seemed incredibly friendly. They all seem to really like each other (unlike at Vanier), so, even though it's a suuuuper long commute (an hour and a half - though I guess Vanier was 50 minutes, so it's really not THAT big of a difference), I'm incredibly excited about the new job!

It will be my first time with an actual salary since I was living in France (and doing the worst job ever with the worst boss ever). I am SUPER EXCITED!!!! It doesn't start until the 20th, but I have meetings all week next week. And I am SUPER NERVOUS about it! What if I end up being an awful, awful teacher, and it was just a fluke that I felt like I did okay this past term and that my students seemed to like me.

G and I are celebrating Christmas tomorrow (!!!!), so this past week, I have been pretending it's still Christmas. (pretending, pshaw, it IS still Christmas!!!!). As such, I have been watching lots and lots of Christmas movies! :-) And I think I have a new favorite, that I will definitely be adding to the roster of movies that I must watch every year - A Very Merry Mix-Up. It was a Hallmark movie, and it was literally too adorable for words!

I loved it so much that I've been thinking I might want to start some Hallmark TV. I was thinking of maybe trying When Calls the Heart, even though it looks tooooootally cheesy! But I love cheesy! :-) I've also been thinking of maybe trying to watch Ravenswood, to try to rekindle my romance with abc Family, which has sort of gone sour since the end of Make it or Break It (BEST SHOW EVER). I've got soooo much TV to watch, though (Japanese TV shows, Sherlock, House of Cards, Downton Abbey), I really don't need to be adding any new shows to the mix. I just FEEL like I do since I have had the past week off. I am sure that once I start work again, I won't have time to watch anything.

In other news, I have been OBSESSED lately with Mimi Petit Deco. Yaaaaayyyyy for Decoden! And yyyaaaaayyyyy for Decora Style!!!! (though, I admit, I could do without all the hairpieces) Anyhow, the Mimi Petit Deco cell phone cases are sooooo cute, and I want to get one soooooo badly! I want one all pink and turquoise with an adorable unicorn on it. Maybe it will be my "I got a new job" present to myself once I have started, if I feel like it goes well.

Anyhow, that's all I have to say today, folks! Tomorrow is (fake) Christmas, and I'm psyched!

After Christmas is over tomorrow, perhaps I will post about Christmas in Louisiana then Christmas here. YayyyyyyY! I can't wait to wake up super early and open presents. ::happiness::

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Future TV Addict

So, I was thinking (yet again) about Privileged being canceled and thinking (once again) about how devastated I am over this. And I was wondering - why did none of the hardcore fans that knew that there was a possibility that it be canceled start a "send cucumbers to the production team" campaign. You see, in the series, they always drink cucumber water when they study. This would have shown how much the fans loved it, which in turn would have made the CW think "well, if the fans love it this much, other people must love it, too. They've just not seen it."
This is what happened with Roswell. After the first season (the best season of any TV show ever to exist in the history of television - I just finished watching it again, and it is soooooo so so so SO good. I'm definitely going to regive the second season a try), the WB was thinking about canceling the show, and so all of the hardcore fans (minus myself, unfortunately) sent bottles of tabasco to the producers. This is what the aliens put on their food in the show. This showed them what dedicated fans Roswell had, and in the end, because of that, they decided to have a second (and then a third!!!! which I am psyched about finally watching) season.
So why couldn't the fans do this for Privileged? But then, maybe it wouldn't have worked, because apparently they moved the time of the show around and did massive publicity and just couldn't seem to get other people interested.

Anyhow, so yeah. I was super mad at the CW for a little while about that. But now that I have seen the new lineup for the next season of TV, I am over my anger, and I am actually incredibly psyched.
I will, of course, continue watching GOSSIP GIRL. Hopefully it will continue to be awesome. And, of course, I will keep watching SMALLVILLE. I'm with it until the very end.




And then, the show that I am absolutely the most psyched about, there is a new series called the Vampire Diaries coming out!!!! It is based on the books by L.J. Smith. I have never read them (although I am planning on getting on that promptly), but some of my favorite books back in the day were "the Secret Circle" trilogy by the very same author. They are sooooo good, and I am actually midway through rereading them now. Also, Ian Somerhalder, who is incredibly gorgeous, is going to be starring in it. Most of you probably know him from Lost, which I tried to watch, but it bored me. I, however, originally fell for his hotness on a TV show which (incredibly unfortunately) only lasted one summer season (why do I always fall for the shows that don't last?) - Young Americans. On which he is at an all boys school and starts falling for this person at his school, so he thinks he is gay. But it turns out it's a girl disguised as a guy trying to piss off her parents. Something like that. So, anyhow, I love vampires. I love L.J. Smith. Ian Somerhalder is hot and from Louisiana (born in Covington). I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Between me and the Vampire Diaries, if you missed that.

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Then, there is "Parental Discretion Advised," which actually looks really cool - about a girl trying to become an emancipated minor who ends up finding her parents in the process. More than all that, though, the awesomest thing about this show is that it stars SHIRI APPLEBY, of Roswell fame (have you noticed how everything always goes back to Roswell with me?)!!!!!!!! I love love love her to death, and I really don't think that anyone could have made a better Liz Parker than her. Unfortunately, though, I have seen her in very little since Roswell (I think Swimfan and Charlie Wilson's War are it, despite her having been in quite a few other things). Anyhow, so I'm really psyched about actually WANTING to see her new show.

And then there's Melrose Place. I'm not sure if I'm going to love it or not, but it seems to be starring Ashlee Simpson, and despite it being mega uncool to like her, I sort of think she's awesome. So I'm going to at least give it a try.
I've decided that I'm also going to give the Beautiful Life a try, although I don't really know why. It's got Corbin Bleu from High School Musical in it, so I am SLIGHTLY tempted, although I am FAR from convinced that I will actually love it.

Then, a TV show which I am more than overly excited about, and which I in no way have the CW to thank, is one that was based on one of the greatest teen movies of all time: 10 Things I Hate About You. That's right - it's becoming a TV show. Thank you ABC Family!!!! It premieres July 7, and I will be there.


Anyhow, that's enough from my TV addicted self today. I've got to finish the book I'm reading (sooooo good - book 1 in the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud) and watch the first episode of Smallville Season 7 before Guillaume gets home and we go eat delicious Ehtiopian food.

For the record, I do do things other than watch TV. I taught until 3 PM today and then came home and worked out and took a shower. And then I worked on getting my resume perfect and sent some e-mails asking people to be references for me. And I talked to my Mom on the phone for a while and wrote this blog entry. And I studied Japanese for about an hour. So I really don't spend all of my life just watching TV.

TV Addict

Yes, that's what I am. A TV Addict. It's sad, really. I remember back in boarding school I used to watch a lot of TV. Everyday after classes I would watch an episode of the Power Rangers and an episode of Young Hercules. Man, how I loved me some Young Hercules.



I also had borrowed from my friend Delilah the video cassettes of Fushigi Yuugi, which I adored and have seen every episode of. And then every Tuesday night I would skip social hour and watch Roswell instead. Even to this day, if asked what my favorite TV show is, I say Roswell. I frickin' LOVED that show! Which is weird, because there were three seasons and yet I could never really get into seasons 2 and 3. So it's really only first season Roswell that I love. I am presently rewatching it now, and I am thinking that with all the TV watching I have been doing lately, I might as well watch the second and third seasons.

Also, on Friday nights at LSMSA (my boarding school), I would occasionally have nothing to do, and so I would watch the WB. If I'm not mistaken, this was back when Popular, of which I saw the occasional episode, was airing along with season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is to this day the only season of Buffy that I have ever seen. I am therefore a Riley fan and not an Angel fan. Weird.



Anyhow, since then, I had sort of given up TV for quite a long time. The only show that I really watched on TV was Mythquest (MAN, what a great show!!!!) every Sunday morning one year at NYU. And, of course, Sex and the City, which I actually only watched after it was all over. I was given the DVDs, and they were basically the only thing that could console me when my loserface ex-boyfriend broke up with me.



Now, though, living in France and having a schedule that leaves plenty of room for laziness, I have become a TV addict like never before. I have seen three seasons of Battlestar Galactica and have just recently started on the fourth. I watched the first two seasons of Dexter. I had had for AGES the first five seasons of Smallville on DVD, and I finally got around to watching those. I also watched the 6th season and am about to start season 7. I'm catching up! I'm about to start Samurai Girl, which was a very short series. I've also started Desperate Housewives, of which I just recently finished the second season. I diligently watch the Secret Life of the American Teenager, Gossip Girl, and Privileged. Oh, and I can't forget that I have also, since arriving in France, watched every episode of Cardcaptor Sakura and have started watching Magic Knight Rayearth and Death Note.




As you can see, I have been watching and enjoying a lot of TV. Because of it, though, I have been really worried. Because it is looking like I will have a lot of free time next year as well. I'm planning on starting with season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and watching them all. And both my sister and brother love One Tree Hill, so I was thinking I would give that a try as well. But I've been sort of feeling afraid that I am going to run out of things to watch. Especially because

THE MOST DEVASTATING THING HAS HAPPENED!!!!!!!!
Privileged has been canceled. This show actually made me forget about Gossip Girl for a minute, with how good it is. I regularly every week made time in my schedule to watch its awesomeness. And NOW, it has been canceled. I can't get over how sad this makes me. Especially since the director decided that she was going to leave lots of open ends hoping for a second season. So WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!!!! I can't even believe how sad this makes me. It was SO good. I don't understand why it didn't do better.
I mean, Smallville just finished its EIGHTH season and it got signed up for another season. Even Buffy only had 7 seasons. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Smallville. But seriously people - 9 seasons? And then if I'm not mistaken One Tree Hill was signed on for an 8th season. It's just not fair - couldn't they have given Privileged a second chance?
I AM SO SAD!!!!

Anyhow, I am just glad that it looks like there are going to be lots of new awesome shows to help me get over my sadness and to make sure that I have things to watch next year. And, since I am sure everyone is just thrilled beyond belief to get to read about all of the wonderful TV shows that I watch, I will have to write all about them next time, because NOW - I have to go!