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Saw the ad for "Men of a Certain Age" as a preview before Zombieland. I understand that men are their target demo, but DAMMN...since when does depressing your male audience by showing how much their future lives will suck make them watch your show?

I loved your first paragraph. It's an exact description of me! That's the way I study. ABSOLUTELY last minute. I often wasted the eve of an exam watching movies, browsing the internet etc only to start cramming in at say 10pm at night or later. I never feel the pressure until it's almost too late to do anything about it and unless I feel pressure I don't do jack shit. Meanwhile people tell me how stressed they are. The situation gets so bad that I often end up telling people who ask me that my studying is going relatively well because i feel embarassed saying I haven't even bought the necessary books/notes yet let alone started studying! I cut corners, skip chapters, cram, then cram some more and at 4am when I'm tired and figure I'd better get some sleep I'd say "fuck it, I know what I know." I'm brainy though. Getting some results as people who studied much harder is far from unheard of. For the say 15 hour duration of exam studying and doing an exam I simply run on adrenaline and after I collapse when it's finished I always promised myself that next time it will be different but it never happened. I've always been terrible at time management.

Scott Bakula is still hot. I don't care what anybody says.

Wow this is weird. I should've handed in a paper for my Masters today but instead I'm still writing it (it's 2 AM in Amsterdam right now). Obviously I'm browsing Pajiba (even checked for airline tickets to Australia which I'm obviously too poor to buy) and then you make me feel guilty by talking about procrastination. Damn, is the universe trying to tell me something?

Ok, 700 words left...that's fine. Yeah, totally fine.

I am also singing the Grad School Blues, frequently punctuated with old Simpsons study breaks. Why can't I focus? Now it's 2 in the morning where I am and I finally finished reading one of many chapters I have left to read before Monday. I tell myself I have plenty of time, but...

At least there's not a damn thing on American TV tonight for me to watch tomorrow online. Of course, much like TV, there is always an episode of Law & Order somewhere. NO! CAN'T! WON'T!

Oh, honestly, people.

If you silly youngsters had just bothered to pay attention in your classes, you wouldn't be stressing and you wouldn't have to use your "reading days" for studying, but in the way I always did: with a bong grafted to my face, excluding the fuck breaks, the way God intended.

You mean you attended your classes? We spent them with a bong grafted to our face, excluding fuck breaks, which add up to many more hours than the "reading days".

I'm definitely one of those ladies who is sad about a lack of Hugh Laurie tonight. Planning to put in some old House DVDs and curse Carrie Underwood.

You mean you attended your classes?

That's the best way to meet fuckable guys/pot dealers for recreational activities.

Take heart, exam/end of term people. I did the exam/final paper thing the same way, and I've had a perfectly nice life/career. Ask me about taking a psych final tripping on acid. The degree is much more a ticket than a certificate that you know anything. Knowledge changes so fast you can't walk into anywhere with a degree pretending you are up on everything in the field. Employers know that. A degree means you can cut the mustard, not that you can cut the mustard's genes to order.

Anybody watching whatever the fuck Alice is? Do you understand any of it at all? The only thing I understand after watching the first part is they took the absurd fun crazy sociopathic joy out of all the characters and turned it into some kind of weird but bland action thriller. God knows we don't have enough of those on TV (Godtopus, however, knows the exact opposite, so who are you going to believe?).

I need you to take down that picture because it gives the impression that Andre Braugher is actually in this show and I know that's simply not possible. He would not do that to me.

*sobs*

**searches for "Homicide Life on the Streets" on Netflix**

Haha great to hear to the other procrastinators out there continue to keep on keepin on.

barf: that .... yea, that's pretty much me in a nutshell. Glad to hear I'm not weird, I really need to be studying but can't focus for shit.

One exception: I pull all-nighters. All the time. At 4 am, I say "fuck it, four hours of sleep isn't helping me anyway." Nope, I'm cramming that shit in until I leave my apartment.

Scott Bakula looks just like James van der Dawson's Creek up there. And if Ray Motherfucking Romano is in it, there's just no amount of Braugher to make up for it.

On a side note....I promise when I am sober I am a lot better at the whole grammmar thing. Really.

Lindsey with an 'e', are you doing as poorly with the cold weather as I am? Because I am thinking about not going to school today to sit and home in bed watching movies.

This "Men of a Certain Age" looks a hell of a lot like the BBC series "Manchild" - which was mostly distinguished by the appearance of Tony Head in leather fetish gear, then just an apron, and finally nothing.

So, any chance of Bakula recreating those scenes, do we think?

Zuzu:
Ah, I remember school, and the luxurey of not actually needing to go out.

Baby, I work outside, and I'm self employed. No body will pay me for taking a day off, so out I go. I have been out in it from 20*-105*F, I just roll. Luckily the Arena is undercover but it open on 3 sides. As long s the conditions don't get icy, I'm good. I drive 22 miles each way. It could be worse, We could be Ice Road Truckers. Now those fuckers are CRAZY.

Uh yeah Lindsey sorry, it was nearly 4 AM at that point ;)