Um, yeah.

Wow – this is going to be really disjointed.  I probably shouldn't even write anything today, but I have to do something to stay awake.  I slept badly Sunday night, and then I slept really badly last night.  So now I'm just trying to make it through the day.

I am officially obsessed with Grey's Anatomy.  I'm on my third viewing of Season 1, which I borrowed from Rae.  It's just so cool.  The characters are great, and there isn't too much "medical drama" to it.  Like Rae told me when she talked me into watching it, it's more like a romantic comedy.  Actually, it's more like crack.  I think Patrick Dempsey's character is my new Colin Firth.  The man is not only very attractive, but he has that eye thing that Colin has.  Smoldering.  It's maybe not quite the same way that Colin does it, but you definitely get the feeling of passion burning beneath a calm exterior.  Somehow, there is nothing as hot and addictive as that.  The other characters and the story are awesome as well.  So yeah.  If you don't watch it, well, you should.

I have another vague idea for my novel.  I've been thinking a lot about my grandmother and the affect her aging has had on me.  She used to be someone I would talk to all the time.  When other teenagers were out doing teenager things, I was sitting in my grandmother's living room collecting stories about our family history or arguing politics.  Ahme was a formidable adversary when it came to debates.  She was a wealth of information when it came to "the olden days."  She was a valuable source of sound advice.  She was really not only a grandmother to me, but a friend too.  So it is torture to me to watch her losing her mental abilities.  Actually, the real torture is to know that she knows that she's not as sharp as she used to be.  I call her and visit her out of duty now, not out of a desire to see her and talk to her.  It hurts me.  I'm thinking that this change and this relationship could figure well into a novel.  I'm not the only person to experience this, though I imagine most people experience it with parents, rather than grandparents.  But I think those things that resonate with everyone are the things that make a novel popular (and publishable).  So that's a possibility.

In other news, Rae and Gus got engaged!  It's very exciting news.  I'm excited to start planning their wedding, since I so miss planning my own.