Hello!

I'm writing this blog as I need to write something and right now I'm not writing anything. When I worked part time I had time to write novels; I wrote two. They were never published or anything but they made me happy and I loved writing them. And now there is no time. Or maybe that should be I can't find the time. I have friends who get up an hour or so earlier than usual to write. It is admirable but I am just not that dedicated. I could, I suppose, write at night. Except I don't do that either. My nights are spent seeing comedy, music, films and plays to the point of exhaustion. My evenings at home (if I'm not catching up with a friend in person, on skype or on the phone) are spent watching television.

Ah, television. Much of this blog will be about TV and here's why: TV is awesome! There is much inverse snobbery about the world of TV - it is mocked, dismissed and constantly undervalued. In the early days of the novel, the highly respected novel, people thought they were a silly distraction for silly women. And yet now to study literature is seen as noble and worthwhile (although I'm afraid it has few practical uses). TV is simpy in its infancy.

I'm not, of course, defending the crap. X Factor, indeed most reality TV is insulting. Soaps, I don't bother with though if I were to watch one it'd be Neighbours. There is a lot of bad stuff you could watch on TV but there's so much amazing stuff too. And if you watch all the amazing stuff it means you're busy quite a lot of the time.

I will come to my obsessions as time goes on but for now I'll just mention the best of the best of TV:

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Gilmore Girls
Dawson's Creek
Angel
West Wing

and some current examples of genius:

Mad Men (of which a lot more later)
Doctor Who
Grey's Anatomy
How I Met Your Mother
Chuck

Lip Service started this week - I'm very excited about that. But for now I must go and watch the first episode of Season 7 of Desperate Housewives.

I haven't even mentioned music yet. Or comedy (where most of my money goes).

I leave you with Virginia:

"Nothing has really happened until it has been described. So you must write many letters to your family and friends, and keep a diary."