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Last night, I was too lazy to get up and turn off the TV (the remote was all the way across from me! I mean, what's the point of a remote if I'm going to forget it and leave it on top of the stupid TV!?) after Smallville, so I ended up watching the first episode of Supernatural I've seen since I tried to watch the premiere when it first aired.

Lesson learned: Don't be so fucking lazy. ( I can't believe I'm doing this )

ETA: A cut-tag for ivy03, who is--believe it or not--more fanatical about not being spoiled than I. Yes, I can scarce believe it myself. Cut-tag because I love her crazy head nonetheless.

Still, wasn't worse than what had come before it. I dunno whether it's powerful lame or just a sign of the times that Smallville throws around the phrase "fight club" without a hint of irony. Either they think it's that cool to say or it's just part of the Things Kids Say These Days. The target audience of Smallville, judging from a WB/CW demographic should really be too young to think Fight Club is just something to make slang out of, right?

Whatever. Smallville is so bad. Why can't I turn it off? I had The Descent from Netflix and everything, and still I sat through the show (and the one after, God).

The Descent was fucking creepy, and not for the stupid in-bred cave monsters (though, to their credit, they were pretty good as being creepy, too). It had a reasonsable solution to the age-old problem of horror flicks: it knew how to keep the victims in close proximity to the monsters. The "haunted house" scenario suffers unless there's a reason you can't get away (Alien solved that problem by being set in space; zombie movies work best when the people are trapped in a location and not when they're trying to flee constantly), and The Descent's excuse was the girls involved were cave-diving in a heretofore unexplored cave and there was a rock slide to block their entrance. Excuse me, but that's scary right the fuck there, monsters or no monsters. I was feeling claustrophobic in my living room.

Fun facts about the movie: one girl was the love interest from the worst episode of Farscape (at least, the worst in season one), and another was the here-and-gone Sam from Spooks. Hurrah for my IMDB brain!

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I? Am a genius.

I was sitting here at work going, "I want tea." Then I would go, "But tea is hot, and I am already hot. There should be some way to have cold tea."

At work, we have one of those K-cup tea/coffee machines, that you put in a plasticy cup and it gets punctured and hot water going through it gets you your drink. Next thought: "I can't use that! It will only make the tea hot!"

Then: "Wait. We have a water cooler. If I go get one of the regular packets of tea from the office and leave it to brew in my water bottle filled with cold-tap water from the cooler--PRESTO! Cold tea! Amazing!"

Yes, all of that was how I actually thought through this process. I am so smart.

ETA: SUCCESS! We have cold tea!