The Inmates Run the Asylum

I think it's no secret that my TV viewing habits are decidedly retro. If it's been off the air at least ten years and repeats are plentiful, I'm inexplicably drawn to it. I've OD'd on reruns of M*A*S*H since junior high, I've watched the Golden Girls at least twice a day for a year now, and I acquired all five seasons of the A-Team just before TV Land stopped showing it.

My latest rerun addictions are Perry Mason, Hawaii 5-0, and Barney Miller.

I've flirted with Perry Mason before (enough that I have the theme song as a ringtone on my phone), but when choices had to be made, it got sacrificed. Well, it's back on at 1pm here in the cornfield. Hawaii 5-0 follows it. It was laziness that got me to watch Hawaii 5-0 and now I can't stop. The questionable taste in fashion, the pretty backdrops, the WTF storylines, and Jack Lord's hair have mixed together to form a kind of crack that I can't say no to.

And they're both on five days a week.

Now Barney Miller is only on Sunday nights, but they do show four episodes. It's one of those shows whose reruns haunted my childhood (it went off the air when I was two) and I know all of the characters and whatnot, but I don't actually remember the episodes specifically. At any rate, it makes me laugh so hard that Stella glares and growls from the next room.

Now, I'm telling you all of this because I don't have a real job or a real life and I got all of my writing work done very early this month, so that means I've got some time on my hands. And I've been meaning to make some new icons, but never really had the time.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Yeah. Let's not be surprised if some blasts from the past in icon form show up.

I'm dangerous when I'm in possession of free time.

Submitted "My Winter with Stanely" and "Laundry" to a couple of places. I've got a little bit of wait to see if they get accepted. But, they're out there and that's good.

It just jangles my nerves so badly every time I send something out. That self-doubt rises up like so much bad tequilia and I question whether or not I'm good enough, if my work is right for their mag. And I get all noodly about it.

Then that badass in me kicks in and I say, "fuck it...let it be their problem".

Like that last little "screw it" before cliff diving. Only I hope as I get more experienced with submissions, the cliff gets smaller.

I've got DragonCon coming up and writing things to finish and a couple of projects I'm working on and my brain is just full. So if I start getting a little forgetful (I mean, more so than normal), just hit me with a stick. It'll be fine.