So... I don't know if you've noticed this, but I'm kind of addicted to How I Met Your Mother. "What?!" screams the invisible audience. "We had no idea! That's a shocking turn of events we're just finding out about right now!"

Oh shut up, voices in my head.

(You missed the schizophrenia, didn't you?)

The point is, I wrote a poem for creative writing class. Based on HIMYM. And it's awesome. So I'm going to post it on here and gaze at its awesomeness and forget all the other things I have to do today. Like, for instance, detox on HIMYM. I'd say that not watching any eps today is a step in the right direction, though, right? Right.

Background: This is set during season 3's "How I Met Everyone Else," which is an awesome episode. Specifically, I was trying to capture Barney's state of mind in the 16 no's scene: I did this by watching NPH VERY closely about 30 or 40 times in a row, and by trying to think like Barney. It was a sobering experience. And I think this is a tiny bit too angsty. But here 'tis...enjoy!


 

Oh, Barney. *sniff* He's awesome, but somehow his character also makes me very sad.

Cinema midterm was a surprising success. But now I have an annotated bib. to do. Bollocks.

Went to the gym yesterday and took one of their classes, and today I can't walk. I like complaining about things.

We had the WEIRDEST midterm in creative writing today... we were told to give ourselves a new name, draw a picture and give it a title, write an equation for love, and then ask our teacher any question we wanted. I was the last one in the class to finish. So I might have failed. At being creative, in creative writing class. Yeah.

2 days to fall break, and -1 day to my nervous breakdown!!!!!!!!!!! 

Yes, I'm here. I just haven't had any time at all to post my thoughts on anything. Has anything of note even happened in the past week outside the realm of HIMYM?

Oh yeah: Project Runway isn't moving to Lifetime anymore. To which I can only say: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other Lifetime-related news, HIMYM is apparently going to syndication there. To which I can only say: Booooooooooooooo. Stupid Lifetime. But at least it's in syndication somewhere! Just wish it was on TBS.

Oh right, NOT-HIMYM stuff. Hm....

Jim and Pam got engaged on The Office!!!!! I only wish I had been more excited when it actually happened. A few months ago I would have been over the moon, but now I'm just... meh. Barney and Robin are currently taking over my squee capacity. Sorry, PB&J. The episode of The Office was pretty good though. Best non-proposal part? The fact that Pam's an RA! Yeah. I found it thrilling. Now she's even more like me than she ever was before! Stuff I hated: The stuff with Kelly and her eating disorder was extremely unfunny, however. It made me sad. Also, the fact that Ryan's back. I wanted him to rot in prison with his meth habit and stupid goatee.

And I still hate Jan. And Michael was stupid for tearing up the tickets Holly gave him. He's so clueless! And not in the insensitive way like he normally is!

And BTW, calling it now: Angela's totally preggers with Dwight's baby. And things will get NUTS.

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OK, HIMYM. Best episode ever!!!! Well, not really. Definitely a good premiere though. I've watched it 6 times already and read the TWOP recap three times, and I still don't think I'm sick of it. I love basically every Barney scene (that voice mail will never not be funny... nor will his posture when he talks about not wanting to be Robin's boyfriend, but wanting to hold her hand and smell her hair and all that other clingy coupley stuff). I could watch the last scene all day... the look on Barney's face when he's looking at the TV? Sigh! He's going to break my heart this season, I can already tell. Yes: I'm going to cry like a baby over a show that has a laugh track. I'm such a degenerate.

Plus, Robin TOTALLY knows Barney's into her! What's the deal, Scherbatsky?!? I think we all need to know more about what's going through her mind, now that we know all about Barney. Here's what I think: Lily needs to tell Marshall how Barney feels (if she hasn't already done so), and then Marshall needs to lawyer Robin to get her to confess that she loves him too. That would be amazing.

Oh right, main character. Ted and Stella are so doomed. But I knew that pretty much from the get-go, so I'm okay with it. Also, I hate Ted, so his problems don't concern me that much. I appreciated all the Star Wars jokes, even if I'm not a huge fan. Liked how they dealt with the idea that they still don't know anything about each other. Which, B the W, doesn't make any sense for Ted. I mean, he badgered Robin about EVERYTHING when they were going out (hence Robin Sparkles and the slap bet - yay!), yet he doesn't know his fiancee is allergic to peanuts, or what her hobbies are, or that she's a Mets fan, or that she hates Star Wars?! I thought the writers were better than that. Hopefully they'll clear things up in the next few episodes, however. (My theory: Ted is, once again, so desperate to get married that he doesn't care who he marries. Which is, in a nutshell, why I think Ted stinks, with his ways, and his head.)

Waiting for Lily and Marshall to have more to do (mostly for more Marshall... he was hilarious in this episode).

And that's all I'm going to say about last week. Might live-blog tomorrow night's episode though! (Or make my own recap...)