Congratulations to Martin Scorsese

Well I'm an asshole. Twice.

The End of an Era

I spent the last four hours watching the last six episodes of The O.C. This was intentional, I purposely distanced myself from any spoilers up until now, to build up the emotional momentum necessary to power through such an event. As expected, I am not at all disappointed. But I do think that I might be outgrowing teen drama marathons...

A quick rundown of the end of the series. For starters, I totally called the Kirsten Cohen abortion back in season one, when she was talking Teresa out of hers. I don't think I've ever been this happy to point out that someone, real or imaginary, has had an abortion. Plus now shes knocked up again! Very appropriate for the over the top absolutely not believable at all category.

Adult love triangles involving the Bullet, Hercules, and Julie Cooper. Seriously, this show is about to end, and that's the best you can come up with? I am rather impressed with the clown porn theme.

An Oldboy reference! (The Korean movie that Seth, Ryan, and Sandy go see.) I think they secretly love Korean people on this show. Taylor Townsend speaks Korean. That's evidence of something, right?

The natural disaster episode. An earthquake rattles the O.C., Ryan has a glass shard in his side, Seth is driving to get help, they get a flat, and instead of trying to change it, they decide it'd be a good idea to WALK FOR HELP?? Come on, I know the show is getting cancelled, but this is a stretch, even for The O.C. If this show were ballsier, Ryan would've died.

Continuing with the fucking retarded theme (or am I just now realizing, in it's sunset, that this show is made for junior high and high school kids) but how does a one week pregnant woman who fell, a woman who got shot in the toe with a flare gun, and a rabbit get first priority in an emergency room in a city that just experienced an earthquake? Not to mention that they got there by pedalling a bike with a Radio Flyer attached to it Napoleon Dynamite style. This might be a good time to quit teen dramas forever.

And the entire fucking last episode. Ridiculous. But a very fitting ending.

Stay tuned tomorrow, when I, just like every other teenage girl blogger, lists their favorite The O.C. scenes.

GMail chat is down/blocked

My GMail chat is down. Which means, other than reading Wikipedia, I actually have to do my job today (and potentially every day from here on out). Hopefully this is just a glitch in the system, but I can't go ask my coworkers if their chat function is working or not, and I really can't go ask the network admin if he blocked it.

It should be working! It says I'm signed into chat mode. I don't have any error messages that suggest GMail should be blocked. And GMail is still transferring data from chatenabled.mail.google.com. That's a good sign, right?

Here's what I do know: Refreshing GMail every five minutes isn't helping. GMail chat is really easy to block. It's not working on either Firefox or Internet Explorer. I haven't worked uninterrupted for more than half an hour since GMail chat's been available. And I'm really lucky that, if this is the network admin's doing, its something passive aggressive, rather than an official reprimand and a sitdown with my boss in a meeting over lost productivity.

This is what erectile dysfunction must be like: All the parts are there, but only for show, and that makes you want to shoot yourself.

edit: IT'S BACK!! YESSSSSSS ITS BACK!!!!!! That was a long five hours.