Alright, I'll admit it...

The first step to recovering from an addiction is admitting you have an addiction, right?

Right. Okay. Well, here goes...

I am legitimately addicted to HBO's "In Treatment".

For anyone who hasn't heard of this show, first of all YOU MUST WATCH THIS SHOW. Second of all, well... I guess I should explain its premise in case you still aren't convinced.

It's a show any aspiring writer should watch. Basically, it follows the life of a therapist, Paul, through a regular work week. We learn about four of Paul's patients, as well as get a glimpse of Paul as a patient when he sees his therapist once a week.

What's so incredible about this show is that each episode is solely a therapy session and yet the characters are round and believable. Sometimes we get little tidbits of the characters' lives outside the session, but mostly we learn about these people through what they say. What's also incredible is that this show is never boring, no matter how dull that description just sounded. I've always wondered what seeing a therapist would be like, and while I know that this is probably a glamorized and exaggerated version of what real therapy would be like, I find it so interesting to observe the relationship between therapist and patient. It's made me realize that everybody could benefit from therapy. It's also made me realize that I would be very scared to ever enter therapy, ha. Everything you say and do is analyzed. You are analyzed.

My mom's friend lent us the first season of this show, and I have to say I am so grateful I did not start watching it on TV. There are nine discs and I've already gotten through five, and it's only been about a week and a half! In my defense the episodes are short, around half an hour each...

Pet Peeves

We were talking recently in my Writer's Craft class about what inanimate objects, tendencies, preferences, dislikes, etc, can say about a person. I never used to think those things indicative of what people are like, but I'm beginning to think that they are indeed pretty significant in their own ways.

Though I used to think that the term "pet peeve" literally meant something that annoyed you about your pet (it used to puzzle me exceedingly when somebody asked petless-me about my pet peeves), I have since realized that I have a great many of my own, and I'm wondering what they say about me. So that's why out of the blue, I have decided to list things that annoy me:

1. Typos in published work. As someone obsessed with correct grammar and spelling, it pains me to see mistakes in either. But to see such things in PUBLISHED work... *cringe*.
2. People who read the last page or last chapter of a book first before reading the book. What is the point of reading it after that?!
3. Excessive webspeak. I tink u noe wat im talkin bout. I do understand convenience, I do, but I think this takes it a little too far.
4. Blackboards that have been erased, but not fully. Those little bits of words that remain... once again, *cringe*!
5. Artists appearing more than once on iPods, because there are slight differences in spelling between them. Anybody who has an iPod knows what I'm talking about!
6. Titles with unnecessary exclamation points in them, ie. "The Theory of Relativity!" Are you yelling at me? Or are you genuinely that excited to talk about The Theory of Relativity?

So, what do these say about me? Perhaps that I am quite the perfectionist? I'm obsessed with spelling and grammar? Not too far from the truth!