Lost in footnotes

Call me a sheep if you will but I have decided to move over to a WordPress blog, and I can now be found on lostinfootnotes.wordpress.com.  So many people I follow on Vox have moved there over the last year that I decided to go take a look, I like what I saw and decided to stay.  Please stop by to say hi and update your RSS.

Mirthful

• Slowly getting back into the school groove and trying out a new study process
• The new Alexander McCall Smith novel should arrive in the next few days
• My mum has booked her flight and is coming for Thansgiving (this mean neither of us has to travel over Christmas - w00t)
• Enjoying taking yoga and pilates classes at YogaWorks, and if I manage to take 12 classes in the first 30 days I get a free t-shirt
• 3 more days till Alex is done with his current project and will be back in NYC
• Bought my first pair of arm warmers and I fear I may become addicted to them
  

Melancholy

• Studying the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum is slightly depressing
• It is rough as ever getting back into the study groove
  
• Lost an earring during the SculptWorks class on Monday
• The uncertainty of where Alex's next project may be (fingers crossed for NYC)
  

By rights I should be watching the season premiere of House but since Alex is gone this week we've promised each other to wait till Friday so we can enjoy it together with a pizza and a bottle of wine (or knowing Alex a nice glass of port or knowing me a coffee).  So what's a girl to watch when she is too tired to study but needs to unwind from the day in the office and the killer SculptWorks class she took? A tried and tested romcom - Serendipity.

I'd forgotten what a nice little film Serendipity is, and set in my two favorite cities New York and San Francisco. It is about a pair of potentially star crossed lovers (Jonathan and Sara, played by John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale) who meet when haggling over gloves in Bloomingdales and click. Then instead of trading numbers like normal people they write their digits on a $5 bill and a copy of 'Love in the Time of Chorea' send these talismans out into the universe. That's kinda a dumb right? I mean if you find someone you can enjoy sharing a coffee with you should grab that person with both hands and never let go. But, hey that wouldn't be much of a plot. So Jonathan and Sara move on from that perfect date and seven or so years later, when they are both on the verge of getting married, decide to resume the hunt  because something is niggling them. Sara has to fly to New York to search with her best friend to search for Jonathan whilst Jonathan continues to scower second hand book shops looking for one of the most depressing books ever. There are signs being sent out by the universe that lures them to the same locations but they keep missing each other until they converge on Central Park at the very end.  Love it, especially because:

• It's from a time when John Cusack's rider stated that Jeremy Piven MUST play his best friend, and it's prior to mercurygate
  
• Eugene Levy guest stars as funny shop assistant
• Kate Beckinsale is so young and fresh faced
  
• Set in the good days pre-9/11 where you didn't need ID to board internal flights (otherwise Sara would have noticed that she had her friend's wallet and ID)

Oh my I have some how ended up watching the Emmy's. Damn you quiet Sunday nights. My ramblings... 

• Dr. Horrible is presenting and making sure that things move along quickly. I have a feeling if he manages to pull this off he might get the hat tick of award show gigs & be offered the Oscars
  
• John Hodgeman is doing the voice over but they are keeping it so low I can barely hear his comic mumbling
  
• Can you believe that Justin Timberlake ever dated Britney? It seems like something from an alternate universe
• Hurrah Toni Collette won for The United States of Tara but she has gone a little too Hollywood (and by that I mean thin and orange)
• Should I be watching 30 Rock? Is it really that good?
• The staged behind the scenes clips are cringe worthy. Keep having Studio 60 flashbacks
• Reality TV gets its own section? Forced to use up our DVR buffer to get through some of it faster. Alex is grumbling that the Food Network doesn't get nominated as it has the BEST reality TV shows ever
• So happy that Shohreh Aghdashloo got an award. She is an amazing talented actress. Loved her in 24
• When they said they would keep the pace up during the Emmy's they weren't joking, and they are keeping the "funny" bits to a minimum. Though they could beef up the Dr. Horrible bits
  
• Yikes - Jessica Lange. Kids remember to wear sunscreen
  
• Oh Drew Barrymore has come to the Emmy's with Mac
• By the look on her face Shirley McClain had no idea who or what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is as the writers filed past her to collect their award 
• Frak - they showed a clip from Battlestar Galactica! It's as if they are acknowledging that it is a drama or something, but they still don't give it enough nomination

So my bad but I thought this year BSG had more nominations. Apparently not. It's one nod was for directing (the excellent Michael Rymer) and they lost out to an episode of ER. ER! It makes my blood boil that the BEST TV SERIES is constantly overlooked. #FAILEMMY

These are my lovely new sneakers. As I was walking up Bleecker Street on my way to work on Tuesday morning I spied a woman wearing a striking pair of sneaker that were dark gray with bright yellow soles. It was love at first sight. I have to trail the woman several blocks before I was able to get close enough to see the brand. At least with sneakers it is easy to find out the brand unlike other shoes or items of clothing. I wish there was an iPhone app where you could take a photo of someone wearing a cute outfit, submit it and then find out wear to buy the items.  I digress, when I got to the office I was straight onto Zappos.com to try to find them and my George I did. However, online they looked very light grey so I figured I'd need to make a trip to the uptown temple of Victory to buy them in person. 

This is the night that makes the DVR groan and stocks me up with plenty of shows to watch over the weekend. Oh how I love Thursdays. With the returning shows my DVR will be set for Supernatural (favourite show on TV and it's mythology is second to none), Fringe (hopefully it will not stumble in its sophomore season) and The Mentalist (fluffy fun with the eye candy of the charming Simon Baker).  I tend to dip in and out of Bones. It never quite made it to a DVR season pass but I always tune in to the episodes with Stephen Fry guest staring. I am intrigued by FlashForward, and will give it a go. Perhaps this will be the year I start watching shows on ABC and almost ditch NBC entirely. Still loyal to Chuck but I think it might fit better on NBC's sister cable channel USA (since characters are welcome there). 

There is NOTHING on TV on Wednesday. Hurrah an evening to study and play Connect Four. OK that is not strictly true. America's Next Top Tyra is on Wednesdays but it is a show that I like to pretend that I don't care about and refuse to set up a season pass for yet I will watch it if I am in. It's not like it is a bad show, I actually think it is one of the more interesting reality shows but I don't loose any sleep when I miss it (Sorry Tyra).  The only other show that looks tempting is Eastwick on ABC, and then that is because Paul Gross is playing Darryl the Devil. He should make a pretty good, mischievous devil. I have a feeling that ABC will wipe the floor with Leno this fall.

I feel slightly guilty about writing about all the new TV that is gracing my screen(s) given that my mum is trapped in crappy TV limbo; the new TV season isn't quite as regimented in the UK as it is in the US. Yet another reason to celebrate being on this side of the Atlantic.

Looks as if CBS is carving out Tuesdays to be NCIS franchise night. I really enjoy the original series (it's the right balance between drama and comedy, and the only procedural cop show where the cops take their guns off when they sit down which is a lovely accurate touch) and will give the LA spin-off a chance (especially since Linda Hunt will guest star). But what with O'Donnell's face plastered over billboards I am guessing that he survived the "deadly" shooting that was the cliff hanger of the cross over episode.  Other than that Tuesdays is pretty bleak until November when the remake of V airs on ABC. No real interest in 90210 or Melrose Place, or the reality shows that the other three networks are airing. I am sorry but Dancing with the Stars, The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance all airing at the same time is a way to make NCIS and NCIS: LA sure fire hits!

Smiles

• I love that I am exercising again and feel like I have more energy which is good because school is kicking off again
• Last two weeks of Alex being on his current project. Fingers crossed his next one will be in NYC or in a cool city I can come visit him
• Enjoying the lovely fall weather and it is still warm enough to enjoy iced coffee
  
• No plans for the upcoming weekend
• Ate the most amazing soda bread today and I am inspired to try and bake my own bread this weekend
• Tomorrow I am going to see an off-off-off Broadway production of Homer's Odyssey. Tickets were only $15 so if it sucks I can duck out without wasting too much money
  

Frowns

• I am on the brink of suffering death by allergies either through excessive sneezing or my colleagues in the back office smothering me to stop the incessant sneezing and nose blowing. The internet swears that pollen levels are only at medium in my area but I swear they are at terrorist pollen level red
• Did you see the scary thin photos of Angelina and the refuges?  Why is Brad's mother not putting dollops of cream in her granola which is what my mum does when I go home to visit. Secretly trying to fatten me up! 
• Have to get up early for tomorrows yoga class then a 9am meeting
• Leno @ 10pm. Not watching it. Very grumpy with NBC for canceling Life, only giving Chuck a half season and having 3 hours of talk shows of an evening
  

Mondays should be all about Chuck and House. Except NBC have decided to withhold Casey, Chuck and Sarah from me till the spring. So all that leaves me with is House. Except Fox have decided to pair my two favorite Brits: Hugh Laurie and Tim Roth. So Monday nights will be back-to-back snark with House and Lightman. Finally a reason to get excited about the work week starting over. Other than that there isn't that much on TV on Monday nights. I can't allow myself to get sucked into Heroes again, and I am not really a Gossip Girl girl. I am slightly tempted my Castle. Looks a little Murder-She-Wrotey and ABC (and I can't believe I am saying this) has some really interesting shows this season so I am ready to cross over to the dark side.