TV Spoilers – how do you feel about them?
I personally try to avoid them when they involve the plot. I don’t mind casting spoilers or finding out that someone is leaving a show because you still don’t know how they are going to do it. I do try to avoid finding out what’s going to happen in the show. I like not knowing, so I generally keep my Internet reading to post show reviews instead of pre show spoilers, but I just couldn’t resist this morning.
If you watch Vampire Diaries and don’t want to know anything about the future of the show, then stop reading now.

I followed a link to TV Guide and read a scoop on Vampire Diaries. I know I shouldn’t have, but I did, and now I’m disappointed. Essentially it said that there are going to be werewolves. No big revelation or anything so as far as spoilers go it’s pretty tame, but I don’t like this. Vampire Diaries is the first vampire thing I’ve gotten into. My friend is really pushing me to read Twilight, but I have held out. Now I’m seeing all these previews for New Moon (right?) and it has to do with werewolves and in my head I’m like, “Really werewolves, I thought this was about vampires, werewolves stink. This is stupid.”
And now Vampire Diaries is going to have werewolves. Is this a requirement for vampire stories; do they always come in pairs; is it an epic struggle? I have no idea, but this news disappointed me. I don’t want a werewolf in my vampire story. And besides I’m pretty sure it’s hard to make a werewolf sexy.
Don’t worry though, I’ll probably continue to skew the CW’s average viewer age by watching Vampire Diaries. But now maybe you see why I don’t like spoilers.
Weekend Re-do
This weekend was great – partly because it included today…
Friday night, Blondie and I went to a friends Halloween party. I played a pathetic game of beer pong, but it was okay because I somehow managed to convince my partner to drink all the beer, so really I just threw the ping-pong ball in the right direction a few times. The only one I actually made bounced off the competitor’s hand and into the cup.
Since Saturday was so yucky I spent most of it inside until a last-minute shopping spree to help my brother finish his costume. Saturday night, I met up with some friends at B&LH’s house. We watched a little bit of some special on the scariest movie scenes and the beginning of Hellraiser, and finally headed out around midnight. We headed down to L5P for Halloween and listened to a band named The Howlies at Star Bar and then the boys wanted to hit up The Porter for last call. Somewhere along the way we came across a discarded doll in the street and spent our time at The Porter using LH’s plastic knife to kill the baby over and over again.
We left when they kicked us out and then hit up the dance floor at Corner Tavern. They closed down at 3 and we thought the night was over, but lo and behold Star Bar decided to give us the extra hour so we went in there and danced until 4 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). The boys were pretty patient with us girls. By the time I got home it was 5. I’m pretty sure the last time I stayed out that late I was probably 19 or 20. I paid for it yesterday though with a complete lack of motivation to do anything productive. The only time I changed out of my pj’s was when I went to get the last week’s worth of mail, so…
Today I didn’t go to work. I felt like I needed to have a do-over for Sunday, so I spent the day running some errands including finally getting new tennis shoes. Then because it was such a pretty day I decided to take a nice afternoon run since I had some daylight; did some household chores and made spaghetti for dinner. Now I’m just waiting for Gossip Girl to come on. It’s been a nice day. I guess I’ll have to go back to the real world tomorrow…
Another lovely day at the office
I love my job for many reasons, not the least of which is the people I work with on a daily basis. Here is the end of a phone call I had today with one of my favorite reps…
B: Going to any parties this weekend?
Me: Yeah, one tonight, but tomorrow night we’re just going out to the bars.
B: Fun, which ones.
Me: Probably just the highlands or something. Hopefully it won’t be as crowded there like spiralween and the like usually are.
B: I used to go to those all the time.
Me: Really, I’m not a fan. All you do is wait in line.
B: Yeah, I guess I only went once and it was a lot of waiting. When was that, I think like ‘98.
Me: Ha, I wasn’t even old enough to drink then.
B: And, we’re done…. (click)
Yep, he hung up on me and all I could do was laugh.
Reason 12,354 why I love my family and one reason I don’t…
Email From Bro to Me & Sis:
Subject – Might as well be on FAIL blog
http://theduty.tumblr.com/post/226067775/brilliant
From Sis to Me & Bro:
Hahahahaha…awesome!
From Me to Sis:
That’s great. People are stupid!
From Me to Sis & Bro:
That’s great. People are stupid. Sorry “Sis”, I meant to reply all last time.
From Sis to Me & Bro:
People are stupid! (Wow, I can almost hear the insult coming out of her mouth 2477 miles away.)
From Me to Sis & Bro:
Touche!
From Bro to Me & Sis:
I read it at first as:
“People are stupid. Sorry ‘Sis’ “
From Sis to Me & Bro:
Again, people are stupid!
Is there something weird in the water in Atlanta?!?!
… and the one reason I don’t: This email chain continued into my sister informing me that she is totally stealing my Halloween costume idea. I told her that was lame, but she just doesn’t care.
If you hear me on NPR…
please don’t laugh if I sound stupid
Tonight KW, EF and I spent another lovely evening with the ATL Collective. Tonight they covered Neil Young’s “Harvest” album and Red Heart the Ticker played a set at the end. It was a lot of fun, and best part – free pumpkin pie.
There was a girl from WABE-FM (I think) interviewing people about the Collective and the artists, etc and she talked to us for a while. She also recorded the show. I think my favorite part was that she was also taking pictures with a disposable camera. That was the pinnacle of public funding right there in front of my own eyes. Anyways, KW laughed through every one of her answers so we’ll see if we make it on the air. Or actually I probably won’t, so if you do hear me – let me know…
OooOo
Things that are not important enough for their own posts, and/or not really important at all…
1. Last night I updated Facebook from my phone. Then threw my phone in my purse without locking it. My blackberry decided to retaliate by posting “OooOo” as my status. I’m a little surprised that by the time I noticed it three hours later that none of my smart ass friends commented about it, especially ablondiemoment. Also, I’m really glad it didn’t record some kind of audio clip and post that because it would have been of me singing loudly in my car.
2. Somehow I changed the font on my gmail page. I don’t know what I did, but I don’t like it and I can’t figure out how to change it back. The worst part – it’s wingdings…*
3. When I was laying in bed last night I thought of the perfect Halloween costume, but alas this morning I am feeling a little bit like Paul on Mad Men last week because I did not write it down and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was…
4. I have five clocks in my office that I have gotten as gifts from stations. It’s kind of random, but I go with it. The last one with a working battery died today. You would think that I would just get rid of them or change the batteries, but I don’t. Instead when they die, I just set them to 5:00 and leave them where they are. This makes me a little happy.

* It’s not really wingdings.