clariten d

Ugh, I took a Clariten D last night around midnight, and it's making me feel all woozy and floaty and slightly sick to my stomach...but that could be the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I just ate at 3:00 as the first thing I ate all day. Or both. Maybe those two things don't interact well.

At least my perrenially closed up left ear opened up last night, and today. I hate allergies.

Veronica Mars and Mermaid

My mother introduced Mermaid to Veronica Mars. Ever since last week, Mermaid has been obsessively watching VM on Netflix. My god, that show seems to go on *forever*. Seriously! Every season is 22 episodes, and every episode is about 48 minutes, and so much is packed into those episodes, every season seems twice as long as any other show I've ever seen. Seriously.

At least Mermaid is learning more about roofies and rape and college than she ever did watching DiGrassi (yuck).

Veronica seems too wise, hip and knowledgable to be a real high school student, and even at her level of income (her fathers) she and just about every other student has a car. She does things no high school student should be able to do, and she looks much too old to be a high school student. So do all the other actors. That said, the show is great fun, except for some time in the second season, when Veronica's love life took over her detective work. I for one had a hard time distinguishing between her two rich boyfriends because as far as I was concerned, they were both equally skeevy, priviliged and identical, and the number of mean girls and rich kids was boggling.

It's hard to believe that Veronica was ever as innocent as she was meant to be in her graduation dream flashback. After all, all her skills had to come from somewhere, right? Even before her friend Lilli was murdered and she was booted out of the rich kid club. I'm not convinced she was ever as naive and sweet as she pictured herself, or however her boyfriends preferred her from her current suspicious incarnation.

I lovelovelove the relationship Veronica has with her father Keith. Colosantos is a terrific actor. His character is warm, tough, loving, sympathetic, and has one of the best father-daughter relationships on television I think I've seen for a long long time. It beats out Castle's father-daughter relationship by a marathon of miles. Veronica here isn't used as a device to help her dad solve cases. Here, she touches base with her dad, and they *help each other out* as they learn things about their cases and when their cases intersect.

I also like her friends/sidekicks, Wallace and Mac. I really love Mac's actress, because she all the right notes for being an awkward, not-movie-star weight girl compared to all the slim and thin girls around her. Wallace is awesome, too. He'll do almost anything for Veronica (though I'm not clear on why) and they don't flaunt his athleticism. He's more dorky than an athlete, and that's nice, because thank god, not all athletes are overbearing assholes--although there's a reason for that stereotype.

Anyway. Tonight Mermaid is having sleepover at a friend's house and we're getting a break from Veronica tonight. We were all up until 3am watching the third season, and saw the Dean murdered, and the college rapist caught. I get tired just thinking about it!

Why Mythbusters is BORING me to tears now

I've figured out why Mythbusters isn't nearly as compelling as it was in its earlier seasons: they focus more on the results of the tests than the process of the tests. Know what I mean? It's too predictable, and if they don't get the results they think they're going to get, they take the nod, and then blow shit up, like they always do. Nowadays, they show the process of putting the testing equipment together in a montage split screen while one of the hosts talks about what they're doing and what they're planning on doing instead of showing fully what they're doing and all the flubs getting there.

Sorry Mythbusters. You're BORING NOW.