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DSL is finally working again! Yay!

So, yesterday my mom randomly says "I have a present for you," but she wouldn't tell me what for the longest time. And it drove me crazy all through dinner, especially when I found out that my sister and father both knew of the present. And it drove me crazy as I watched the Gilmore Girls, but then they finally gave it to me.

My mom and sister have been working on a scrapbook for me since I went to Virginia with Monica. It had me and my family since I was a baby, my friends, graduation, gala, birthdays and chrismases and all sorts of wonderful things and it made me bawl. It's perfect, and I love it, and I'm so glad that I have people who love me enough to do it. And more importantly, I'm glad they didn't give to me as they left, which they originally intended to do, because I might've died crying.

I have finally heard from my third roommate, Brittany. I messaged her on facebook. She said she'd been really busy with finals and stuff, and she seems nice enough. AND I talked to Heather yesterday for the first time since graduation. I always forget how much I like Heather and how good we get along. We're going to get together next week after Jorge leaves for school.

At this time next week, I will either be in Gainesville or going up to Gainesville. It's just so weird to think. Talisa and her family invited me and my sister to go with them to Bimini this weekend, and I had to say no. Because... it's my last weekend at home. I'm not going to be living at home anymore. I won't see my mother everyday. (Which is going to be the hardest part.)

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Best Balls-Out Decimation of a Show's Canon with Little or No Regard for the Long-Suffering Loyal Fans

Look. Irina Derevko was never what we'd call...nurturing. Nor would she ever come even remotely close to winning Mother of the Year. But the character assassination that took place at the end of the final season of Alias was not only uncalled for, it was totally unsupportable by the previous four seasons. Sadly, it appeared that the writers couldn't be bothered to go back and watch the previous four seasons because, if they had, they would have learned that Irina, while being duplicitous, untrustworthy, murderous, and very often a total bitch, was still Sydney's mother; a role she took seriously even while she was planning world domination. Which made her eleventh-hour decent into a daughter-killing rampage all the weirder. Yeah, she wasn't about to start baby-sitting the Spy Baby or anything, but that didn't mean she'd be willing to fight Sydney to the death over a little immortality juice. Poor Lena Olin seemed to agree, because the expression on her face during the final ten minutes of the show reeked of "I'm just doing this for the paycheck and, by the way, where's my damn vodka?" When Irina finally fell to her death in her white circa-1982 pantsuit with the Sphere of Life Horizon Rambaldi Juice leaking out onto the floor next to her, the collective core audience turned to each other and said, "What? The? Fuck?" Way to ruin the ending of a perfectly enjoyable show, Abrams. -- Erin

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In the end, the creators brought back Irina long enough to completely negate everything we knew about her character, making her the evil bad guy behind every last Rambaldi plot since the beginning of time, which...looked like it pissed off Lena Olin just as much as it did the audience.


Amen, Regina. Amen. I actually have stricken that entire ordeal from my memory because... shit.

Long live Irina!

Today my sister had her idea of a dream day in that she went to the beach, shopped, and then we all went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I stayed home during the day and watched Gilmore Girls and I just have to say... I love Emily. So much. Because the way she gets upset, like, when Rory shows her the little shack she and Lorelai lived in? And then Emily has to back out and put on her sunglasses because she's going to cry? It was gorgeous. Or when Trix said she was going to give Rory her trust fund (!) early and then Emily got really upset because she knew once Lorelai was no longer beholden to them that she would never go see Emily and Papa Gilmore? It broke my heart. Who knew Kelly Bishop was such a good actress?

Also, Papa Gilmore was the dad in "The Face on the Milk Carton." That makes me love him even more.

(Okay, I admit, this is the first time since I started watching Alias that any show has excited me this much. Not that I didn't love the X-Files, but there are very few characters to get attached to, as in, three. All of which I am very attached too. Above all, Dana. And then Skinner. And then Mulder. Although the last two change. But Dana always wins.)