Girl: “Where can I find Hamlet?”

Me: “Denmark.”

And sometimes the jokes write themselves.

It’s gotten cold. All of the sudden, like a wet trout down the pants, it’s fall. I forgot about it, being so busy and stressed. It had been mild and pleasant, and this past Saturday on the way to the movies, I even thought, “I bet this will be the last fabulously gorgeous day of the year.” Not that the others won’t be pretty to look at or anything like that, but there was something about that day.

I was laying in bed at three am this morning, shivering and trying to figure out why it was so damn cold in my apartment. And then I remembered my air conditioner was still installed. If I was any dumber, I’d have been *on.* The windows in my apartment are all weird, so my AC sits in a hole cut in the wall of my living room, and not having had an air conditioner like this before (I had central air in one apartment for a couple of summers and, oh, the rapture), I forgot that it’s basically like an open window. So I put the insulation and panel back on it, and I’m hoping that I won’t have to actually take it out of the hole this winter, mainly because I have no real closet space, and installing the thing was a pain in the ass (well, not really, but it did involve a bit of physical comedy that I can’t relay on here.)

I just realized that I totally, inadvertently, lied to my neighbor today about putting it in. How weird. In a way, I just kind of created a memory of how I put it in that’s just totally false. Huh. How about that.

I’ve been avoiding TV lately, which is both my choice and the cable company’s (long story). However, I did get to watch the season premiere’s of “Smallville” and “Angel.” God, I love it when two shows I really like are on back to back. Both were really, really, fine works of television, and the new premise of “Angel” (they are in charge of the LA branch of a multi-dimensional evil law firm, and are trying to turn things around by working the system from the inside…which leads to the question “how long before evil begins affecting them instead of the other way around?”) is playing out just as well as I had hoped. There are some new cast additions and deletions (Cordelia is still in a coma, as the actress who plays her is bowing out of her contract or something, and Angel’s son has been mystically “deleted” from existence), the most notable being Spike, from “Buffy,” and it’ll be interesting to see what hook they come up for how and why he’s there (and why he stays). They also have added semi-recurring character, Harmony, one of my personal favorites, as Angel’s new secretary. Eve, Angel’s liaison to the “senior partners” (as they unseen head-evil honchos are called), is definitely the new hotness (I don’t know why or when, but I’ve become all about saying something is “the new hotness”…as well as being “all about” something. I work with too many teenagers). “Smallville” is just as good, although they are at the point where they are pushing Clark so much, piling so much stuff on, that I’d be amazed that he’s going to grow up and be the square-jawed paragon Superman always was (and, much to my chagrin, should be…that’s what he is, super). But still, it makes for some great drama. Both shows, sadly, ended on cliffhangers, which is irritating. Granted, it’s a week and not four months, but still…

It’s funny getting such a charge from TV, but god, I’ve always loved a good story. And much to the chagrin on most around me, I love sharing a good story too. It’s why I’m always pestering you people to watch and read what I do. It’s a sickness, but it itches less than herpes, so that’s a good thing.

Not that I know what herpes feels like.

Before I go, I’ll leave you with the bumper sticker I created. I want to see if they can get it made for me at Dark Star. It’s obscure, but I don’t care.

“Ivo Shandor Was Right”

If you’d want one, let me know.

Down with the sickness, (ooooh AH AH AH!), I remain…