2006
house, in the house
maura @ 9:18 pm
It is incredibly weird to me that it’s only been a month since I finished working. My days are so completely, entirely, starkly different now. Like Gus*, I’ve not had the easiest time finding my new groove. I guess when you work the same schedule for three years that groove gets worn pretty deep, and it’s harder than I thought to jump into a new one. I wrote out a very insanely OCD schedule for myself because I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be doing all the time yet, and that seems to be helping.
* Actually, Gus is doing really well at school, remarkably so given the circumstances of his transition. His teacher and classmates are great, and he seems happy to be there. But he’s still giving us that old transition-phobic pissy attitude at home which, while completely understandable, is frustrating nonetheless.
So we’ve been watching season 1 of House lately, and I’m fairly ambivalent about it. On the one hand, it’s enjoyable enough: I’m very medical-friendly (I’ve seriously contemplated going to medical school several times) so that part is fun, and Hugh Laurie is a good guy. But part of me is kind of annoyed by the whole thing, because it’s not THAT good of a show. And now we are interested, paying attention, invested, hooked. And the real shows that we do watch (Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Lost) will be starting up again next week which will probably take up all the spare time we have. But I will be tempted to watch House too, and will stay up too late and will be tired and grumpy. Grrr. If only I’d had the restraint to space out that Veronica Mars marathon over the summer, damn me!
The theme song for House is this slow instrumental sort of rap-like (rappy? rappish? rappesque?) keyboard and drums thing, fairly benign (like a tumor! get it?). But Jonathan’s taken to inventing his own words for the song every time we watch. Of course I can’t remember any of his hilarious lyrics right now, but maybe they are only hilarious to us, anyway.
4 comments on “house, in the house”
Dude, that sucks. We are starting to have that whole divorced/splitting up friends thing too, and it makes me sad. Though I always think that it is probably just our age, too — the older we get the more divorced people we know.
We are still having fun, at least when we’ve all had enough sleep! And chocolate + wine help too.
Why are you not sleeping? Jonathan promises he will let me post the House lyrics when they’re finessed, maybe they will put you to sleep.
Oh so we’re just getting OLD. Thank you, now I feel much better! (You can wipe up the drips of sarcasm w/ the Halloween dishtowels, pumpkin!)
Har! I like getting older, myself, though I suspect once I hit 40 I will think differently about it.
J’s theme song makes me happy. We had bad news that some people we know are breaking up…basically they were not having any fun together. And we can see more people we know slowly slipping in that direction. Depressing! So it’s good to hear that some people who are together are truly enjoying one another!
Could I get any sappier? Probably not! But it’s 4 a.m. and your anniversary is coming up so I just wanted to tell y’all that.
Also I must ask—what are you supposed to be doing this VERY instant? (Oh, sleeping!)