well. huh. i dunno. i am having, how do you say, mixed feelings? i no longer want to kill jj abrams (though smashing his glasses is still an option), but i do not want to make sweet sweet love to his tv skills either. behind the cut...

liveblogging lost, or at least what i can catch:

just fyi: i'm trying to refrain from blogging about school and the program and my thoughts on it, etc, until at least a week or two into it. if i were to blather about it now, i think it would be an entry without any perspective at all. and it might be filled with whine. and the world's tiniest violin might be playing. so i'm sparing you that, at least, even though i'm barely blogging at all, so be thankful.

that said - i think i am going to really like it. it's just gonna be intense.

anyway, if i'm not blogging about school yet, that means i'm probably going to be blogging very rarely, because if it holds, my schedule will be like this: wake up. stagger towards el. get coffee. stagger towards campus. class class class class class pop tart for lunch if i am lucky class class class. stagger towards el. stagger home. eat something out of can/box. pass out. so i have nothing to say!

but since we have a brand spanking new lost category, i would be remiss if i didn't take advantage of it. so i'll try to post all my crazy theories after the premier tonight. my guess as to what is in the hatch? pandas. lots and lots of baby pandas.

This would make for a pretty tidy Halloween costume solution. But buying it readymade seems like kind of a copout. Plus it's a little pricey, and likely to get pricier.

Diane Rehm and her guests just finished having a conversation about The Lord of the Flies — it should be up at that URL soon. No new revelations, of course (wait... it's about society?!?!), but it sure brought back a lot of memories. I love that book — in part because I like my symbolism glaring, thank you very much. But mostly because it reminds me of my first exposure to weeks-long pseudoacademic bullshitting on a single topic. You know, where the teacher signals how hip she is by sitting on a desk. So bohemiam.

And on a related note, allow me to join the governess in expressing excitement over tonight's Lost premiere. My crazy karma machine theory isn't looking too hot based on the plot rumors I've heard. But falling silent just because you're wildly unqualified to speak about something would run contrary to everything I know and love about blogging. So, to that end, Catherine and I have created a new category just for posts about this season of the show.

So: you've had a few months to ponder it. What do you think's in the hatch? My money's on g-g-g-ghosts!