i finally turned on my tv. and discovered that the only channel i receive clearly enough to watch is KLRU. which i'm fine with because i already saw a lot of KLRU (the austin PBS affiliate) when i had cable. only now it's the only show in town, you know. i mean, i get a couple of the spanish stations blurrily, but i'd have no idea what they were saying, and i get the Fox affiliate blurrily, but, well, it's Fox. i don't watch anything on Fox except for the simpsons and american dad on sundays. anyway. so now, instead of food porn from the Food Network (i miss you so much, ina!), i have my food porn strictly on saturday afternoons (which i'm watching right now; don't judge me). i also need to make a little schedule to remind myself when doctor who, as time goes by, independent lens, and bill moyers are on (and forget when texas monthly talks is on; i can't stand the sound of the evan smith's voice; i got enough of that when i lived with david back on '02-'03).
the radio station search has gone a little better. it's still mostly KUT and Air America. i also discovered Devils Night Radio and Punk Radio Cast (both under the alternative radio streams in iTunes), which have a decent mix of music. and there's also the million This American Life podcasts i have downloaded that i need to catch up on (so far, i'm at the week before thanksgiving).
i'm starting to wish i had a laptop. because then i wouldn't be glued to my computer desk all the time. sure, sometimes i put what i'm watching on full-screen mode and sit on my couch, but i feel weird when i do that, because it reinforces the fact that my computer has nearly replaced my tv. also, it's weird to see the daily show (er, i mean, a daily show) and the colbert report in disjointed clips on their websites. i'm fine with watching my cbs soaps online, except i get tired of seeing the same commercial three times. sure, the online commercials are significantly shorter, but they're also more annoying. especially the k-mart one.
on the subject of soaps ... i have mixed feelings about debbi morgan being back on all my children. while it's nice to see her back on a soap as dr. angie hubbard (i try to forget that she was ever on port charles playing a different doctor), and yes, they did acknowledge the fact that she got married to jacob foster and they adopted a kid they named cassandra on the city, but they did it in like 20 seconds during her first appearance back and haven't really mentioned jacob since, although angie has been seen talking on the phone with cassandra, who is apparently a teen now (of course, she was only a newborn back in '97). hell, i should be happy they acknowledged the city at all, since general hospital just swept over that when they brought tracy quartermaine back into the fold. it's just, well, angie hasn't been on AMC since 1990! the only characters she still knows on the soap are tad martin and his dad, adam and stuart chandler, palmer cortlandt, and of course erica kane. i don't know, maybe that's enough to tie her back, but it's still a little unsettling for me. bah.
the only book i've been able to pick up this past week is living with prozac, which i've read several times since i first bought it back in '95. it's a collection of a bunch of essays from people on prozac (and other anti-depressants) and how it's affected them. most of them are really depressing. i guess it's the only book i can almost read right now because, well, it reminds me that there are people out there who've had it worse than i am right now. it's still almost too depressing to read, though. if i were in a different set of mind, i'd probably re-read through it in a couple of days. but as i am right now, i've only gotten to page 44 of 274. sigh.
job front isn't going any better. i've applied for a bunch of jobs this week, and heard nothing. on monday, i'm gonna go apply to work at the airport waterloo. my friend jarad works there, so i'm hoping that helps me get the job. because i do need to start making money. and even if i get that job, it pays shittily, so i'm still going to be on the search for another job even if i get that job. gah.
ok, that's all. here's a LOLcat.
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