Brennan and Booth to the Rescue

I'm damaged goods. I'm not sure if my personal diagnosis has a name, but it involves reading way too much educational theory and thinking way too much before synthesizing and then writing about qualitative dissertation research. Okay, here's the problem. I can't pick up a book and read for fun anymore. I have stacks and stacks of books all over my home just waiting for me to start reading, but for some reason they have no attraction whatsoever for me right now. This blog is the first writing in the past five years I'm willing to attempt for the pure enjoyment of it.

The only interest I have developed since graduation is a fascination for the TV series Bones. I checked out season one at my local library in January, and I was hooked. Season DVDs are wonderful! 21 episodes within reach of my index finger along with commentary from actors and special features! That first DVD ran out nine days later--yes I actually watched 21 episodes of a television show in less than ten days, most of them on my new laptop. When I went back to the library to find season 2, someone else had checked it out. The nerve of that person!

Undaunted, I returned to my laptop at home and experienced the true power of Google. Interestingly, citizens of China have an affinity for Bones as well. I was able to find a Chinese website with every episode of season 2 of Bones. Sure, I had to endure some fuzzy pictures and Chinese subtitles, but I didn't miss a day of Bones the entire month of January. Carrie, my librarian, called me when season 3 became available, but it was unnecessary, for my China connection provided all of season 3 (shortened because of last year's writer's strike) and took me all the way up to current season 4 episodes that can be watched on the Fox website. FYI: Only the latest five episodes are on Fox's website or hulu.

In 8 days, 11 hours, and 23 minutes (according to Fox's website) I'll be able to watch a new episode of Dr. Temperence Brennan, forensic anthropologist, and FBI special agent Seeley Booth's crime fighting adventures. For now, I'll settle for reading one of Dr. Kathy Reichs' novels on which the TV series is based. More on those in another post.

Other must-watch shows on my list: The Closer, Saving Grace, CSI, NCIS. Thank God for Tivo!