{"id":3928,"date":"2010-05-21T23:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2010-05-21T23:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T03:29:56","slug":"in-which-i-plan-a-3-day-weekend-watch-tv-write-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"In which I plan a 3-day weekend, watch TV, write this post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is Friday. Yep, no doubt about that.<\/p>\n

It was a quick week, all things considered, and I keep finding it tough to believe that it’s almost the end of May already. Somewhere, maybe in the week my mom was sick with pneumonia — she’s back at work and feeling better, by the way — I think I lost a couple of days.<\/p>\n

I’m taking one of them back on Monday, taking an impromptu three-day weekend. It’s mostly because I have the days and not a whole lot to do with them. (I’m still mulling over the idea of an honest to goodness vacation before the end of the year.) And it may seem a little silly, but the day off will give me a chance to watch the series finale of Lost<\/i>, which I probably won’t get a chance to watch live on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I watched the series finale of House<\/i>, and I just don’t know. I think if the show didn’t have an actor as strong as Hugh Laurie at its center, it would just fall apart. Zach Handlen neatly sums up<\/a> pretty much everything I felt about the episode, and he does so remarkably well. This part contains a pretty huge<\/i> spoiler for the episode, so be forewarned. I just think it’s some great and insightful writing:<\/p>\n

The truth is, that’s how it works. The benefit we get from decency isn’t something that can be demonstrated by flat algebra. It isn’t a barter system. Having Cuddy show up at the end is too easy, because it’s what we all want when we’re alone and afraid and miserable. We want the person we love but can’t have to show up at our door and change everything, and that’s not how life works, and we deserve better than to be lied to by shows like this that pretend to dig deeper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what else had some really great writing? Last night’s season finale of Community<\/i>. “Do you try to evolve, or do you try to know what you are?” I’m just saying.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday. Yep, no doubt about that. It was a quick week, all things considered, and I keep finding it tough to believe that it’s almost the end of May already. Somewhere, maybe in the week my mom was sick with pneumonia — she’s back at work and feeling better, by the way — … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,17,52],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}