Everyone knows I love television.  Let’s talk about what I will be watching this fall:

 

The Biggest Loser: Families- I actually have class during this, but I’ll probably tape it.  Come on.  Who can resist this show?  More importantly, who can resist Jillian?

Law and Order: SVU- I’m slowly losing my love of this show, but as long as Mariska Hargitay is kickin’ ass and takin’ names, I’ll try to tune in.  Speaking of Mariska, I am SO sad she didn’t win the Emmy on Sunday :-(

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition- Ty! Paulie! Tracy! Paige! Houses! Tears! Imagined soap opera drama! Me and my VCR are SO there.

Army Wives- I don’t know when the season finale is, but I will tune in religiously every Sunday at 10pm until they stop making new episodes.  I am so addicted.

Jon and Kate Plus Eight- God I love this show.  Again, not sure what the scheduling is on this (it seems like they perpetually have new eps for me to enjoy) but I will watch and watch and watch it.  I’ve watched it so much that I feel like a part of their family now.  For the record, Hannah is my favorite, mostly because I was a lot like her when I was little.

Law and Order: Criminal Intent- This doesn’t come back til November, but I still can’t wait.  This is my all-time favorite show, ever, without question.  It’ll be odd without Chris Noth there, but as long as Goren and Eames will be saving NYC one crazy-head-tilt and sarcastic comment at a time, I will come faithfully.  Not to mention the Det. Wheeler drama at the end of the season.  Squee!

 

Honorable Mentions:

Little People, Big World- Where is LPBW????  Why are there no new episodes??  Does anyone know?  I want my Roloffs back! (EDIT: I saw an ad for the new season on TLC the other day.  Finally!!  I heart the Roloffs.)

What Not To Wear- You love it.  You know you do.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation- I stopped watching when Jorja Fox left the show, but with rumors of her returning for a guest appearance and the leaving of Gary Dourdan and Billy Petersen, I might just have to see what REALLY happens with Sara and Grissom.

The Girls Next Door- It’s my guilty pleasure.  And since rumor has it that this might be the last season, I’m definitely going to be catching all the eppies.  It would be so fun to have a glamorous life in the Mansion… minus sleeping with Hef and the being naked all the time thing.

I am completely smitten with someone who barely knows I exist.

I am ridiculously consumed with something that should not be consuming me.  At least, I don’t think I should be consumed with it.

I have more possible job offers and job directions than I know what to do with at this given moment, including an honest effort by our dirt poor library to keep both me and Mollie on board (confidence booster!), and I have NO IDEA what on earth I want to do.  And the one job I want more than anything else in the world, I don’t know if I even have a shot at getting.

I know this is a short entry, and I promise more good stuff soon, but I’d like everyone reading this to take a moment to send good thoughts towards a friend of mine who has been quite sick for some time, and if he is not better by tomorrow he will be probably have to be admitted to the hospital.  I’m concerned and a little scared for him, so good thoughts and/or prayers would be appreciated.  Thanks!

CNN’s “hot topics” header on the website is as follows:

Iran- Clay Aiken- U.S. Economy- Election Center

 

You tell me, which of these things doesn’t belong?

Fall storytime has started up at Library E, and it’s been an adventure, let me say.  The preschool storytime is for ages 3-5, which is really ages 3-4 in the fall, since most of the 5 year olds are in kindergarten.  Before I got to the library Thursday, I had 4 people signed up.  At the end of the storytime, I had eleven.  I also had a girl who won the Craziest Gaelic/Irish name award- Caoilin (pronounced Kee-lin.)  I have to tell my friend Ciaran he no longer has the craziest name.

In other news, I had a mom drop off her son and leave, and her son proceeded to sit in the back of the room, staring at the floor, for the entire time.  When I told her this, she explained that her son was very attached to her and she was hoping to foster some independence for him.  Preceding my remarks by telling her that I was not the mom and did not want to overstep my bounds, I suggested that she stay for the first couple weeks to make him feel comfortable, and then leave once he was comfortable.  She heartily agreed and said she’d stay next week.  *phew!*

The other issue was a mom who brought her child who was clearly not three.  I mean, clearly.  Probably two, but definitely not three.  And he behaved like a two-year-old.  I’ve never had a child that was disruptive enough that I hoped the mom would take them out, but she didn’t.  I never got to ask her how old her son was, and she didn’t sign him up at the end of the storytime, so I don’t know for sure.  But, what do I do?  Do I tell the mom she can’t bring her son?  That she needs to take him to the 2-to-3 year old storytime?  Any suggestions from librarians out there?

Look for a Wee Read update soon!

One more semester!  One more semester!  One more semester!  One more semester and then I’ve got my degree!

In other late breaking news, the LOCI finale was pheNOMenal.  As per usual, I’m homesick and missing all my Rochester friends and connections.  My library load this semester is the itty bitty munchkins at Library C and the preschool kids at Library E.  Just enough to keep my foot in the door.

I’m just counting down the days til December…