Grey’s Anatomy 6.06 – “I Saw What I Saw”

This was a unique episode for Grey’s so I’m not sure how to write a review about it. After the disappointing last few episodes I actually didn’t expect to enjoy a new Grey’s episode very much, but I did. Not for the reasons for which I usually enjoy Grey’s, because it didn’t feel much like the Grey’s I know. Sorry to say that. But I liked it for the mere artistic way of telling a story. Yes, I know it’s nothing new and has been done before, but I still find it very entertaining to watch. On whatever TV show or movie and I enjoyed it this time on Grey’s as well.

Back Home and Online…

Around 09.30 pm I got home from my wonderful, wonderful sunny vacation in Scotland and what happened a few minutes ago? Heavy downpour and it’s still raining…oh well, better here now than during my time up north :-) I will probably go to bed soon, because I didn’t sleep that well during the last couple of days. Kind of restless, probably because I miss my big queensize bed without matresses, that squeak whenever I turn around. Even though I would have laughed to stay in Scotland a while longer, it’s nice to be home as well. Home, sweet home. I already dread all the laundry I have to do tomorrow and to answer some work-related mails and tend to some work-related things tomorrow as well. At least I won’t have to return to the office till Wednesday. And there are so many blogs and journals and Grey’s fanfictions to catch up with as well. I hope I will be able to do some of that tomorrow as well…

On my long journey today (on the train) and a lot of times in the park or at night in the hotel room Jamie and Claire (from the Gabaldon series) kept me good company. I’m half way through book 3 (of 6) and what can I say. I’m very much reminded of the time not so long ago when I was infatuated with the Twilight series. And both stories have a few things in common. To me at least. In both series there are 2 people deeply in love, but with a lot of obstacles in their way to a happy end. I was sucked into both stories pretty much early on in the story and started to care very much about the fate of this couple. I thought the writing in both stories was/is very entertaining. But even though I liked the writing itself, there appear(ed) to be more and more flaws in the storytelling. But I was (or am) too hooked already to have that bother me too much. I don’t know if I should love or hate the writers for making me neglect these flaws I still recognize as such :-)
I shouldn’t be so hard on Diana Gabaldon though, as I definitely would pick her series over Twilight any time. Because I love reading historic novels. Because Jamie and Claire are grownups, doing grownup things (and, no, I’m not talking about sex, well not first of all anyway *g*). Because the story is set in Scotland and it was so nice to read it while being there where it all takes place. And mostly because even though I see some flaws in her storytelling, I’m pretty sure I don’t have to deal with such farfetched things like human/vampire offsprings, men turning to wolves, imprinting on babies and protective bubbles created by mere mindpowerl. So I will continue to easily overlook the unbelievable coincidences and chance encounters and suddenly revealed relations that help the Gabaldon story moved forward. And some other things, which sometimes makes me feel like watching a soapopera. But a very entertaing one. Like I said: Guilty pleasure…

What I’ve Been Up To…

The last few weeks proved that twitter has definitely changed my way of blogging. Before I started to use twitter I posted much more, because whenever I had to get some of the mundane, ordinary stuff off my chest, I sat down and wrote a blog post about it. Twitter gets things off my chest and thoughts out of my mind so much quicker and easier than a blog post. But add busy days and weeks into the mix and a lot of stories I usually would have written about remain untold, because I don’t find the time or am too tired to write a post about it. I don’t know yet how I feel about that development.

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I was – once again – pretty busy with work this week, but at least everything I had to work on or had to deal with, went well so far. My local Greens finally have a candidate for each electorial district, which wasn’t easy to accomplish and which actually troubled me a lot a few weeks ago. So this load is definitely off my mind. During the last couple of days I even managed to start working on the school assignment I have to repeat. I have to return some of the books soon, because they’d be due during my vacation, so I have to at least skim through them and copy relevent parts.

Lots and Lots of Fangirly Flip Outs

To be exact: Flip Outs about Paddy, Hockey and LOST 5.11…

I’m kind of feeling better today. Good enough for two entries in fact. I actually wanted to post this one yesterday but then I felt pretty sick-ish in the evening and didn’t get around to it. So this is the first and consists of fangirly flip out only.

If you want to understand why I like Patrick Dempsey so much, you might want to listen to a 10 minute radio interview he did last week. He is just such a down-to-earth guy, humble, nice and funny. I don’t share his love for racing, not at all, but I love that he can get so enthusiastic about it,. That he is a person who still can get enthusiastic about something other than fame and being a hot-shot and all. I had to smile when he said, that he’d love to meet Eric Bana. I’m sure they would have a lot to talk about. Paddy also confirmed that he’s got the movie rights to “The Art of Racing in the Rain”. Cool! And I also loved this part of the interview [Yes, I was kind of bored yesterday but still not fit enough to do some real work. Transcribing was all I could handle]

Grey’s Anatomy 5.19 – “Elevator Love Letter”

I don’t know where to start. Maybe with just stateing that episodes like these are why I love this show so much. This episode was unbelievably awesome from start to finish.

Paddy, Thanks For Stepping In …

I contemplated a while if I should actually comment on that here on my blog as well, but as I’m a Grey’s Addict and a huge fan of Mer/Der and especially Patrick Dempsey, I have to give you my two cents. I enjoyed listening to the Grey’s podcasts during the early seasons, but after a while I got rather bored and sometimes pretty annoyed with them. Which might have to do with Shonda trying to tell me that there is a bigger picture behind the crappy storylines and that she had it all thought out beforehand when it was so obvious on the screen that she didn’t. I kept listening to them though, because I was afraid I might miss something interesting, spoiler-ish

In the current podcast there once again was one of this moments, when I just thought: WTF?!? How can it be that those writers once came up with this wonderful series and great characters, but now obviously don’t know how to write them properly? How can it be that an actor has a better understanding about his character than the writers? So here is the transcript of the part which annoyed me to no end. But on the other hand it once again proved that Paddy Dempsey is the great guy I always thought he is…

Book Review: “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein (2008)

I’m not a dog person. And I’m not a fan of race car driving. Despite all that I spent several hours today reading about a race car driver and his dog and his family. And I LOVED it. So much, that I have to recommend this novel. This recommendation comes with a tissue warning though, because this story will make you cry. At least it made me cry so hard.

A couple of weeks ago I read or maybe even saw in a clip that Patrick Dempsey (a race car driver at heart himself) has bough the movie rights to this book. Or planning to buy the rights? Anyway, Paddy had read the book and loved it, which was reason enough for me to at least check what kind of story it was. And I liked the plot and the reviews and bought it a while ago. I haven’t found the time or wasn’t in the mood to read any novel during the last few weeks, but this morning I decided to take a book with me for the trainride to work. I choose this book, because it seemed a less complex story than most of the book on my Unread Books Shelf. With so many things on my mind, I can’t concentrate on complex drama or thrillers.

A few first thoughts on Grey’s

I’m in a hurry and won’t be able to be online for more than a few minutes until late Saturday or maybe even Sunday morning. I’ve got a work an extra shift this afternoon and then there’s “The Killers” concert tonight (YAY!) and I have to work all day tomorrow, which means I won’t get much sleep tonight either, because of the concert and having to get up early tomorrow.
At least I managed to watch Grey’s this morning, although there were some technical difficulties. Like a notworking powerstrip and such. Argh! I read a few episode comments before I watched it and I thought I wouldn’t enjoy it that much. But I did. Even though Derek was trying so hard to stop me from loving him :-)

Grey’s Anatomy 5.16 – “An Honest Mistake”

I enjoyed this episode immensely

British Airways Flights 939 / 49

The flight leaves today at 12.30 pm in Düsseldorf, I’d have to get on the next plane in London and could be in Seattle at 4.00 pm (local time) today.

Yes, of course, I looked this up just for fun, but after watching the latest Grey’s episode I really really really want to give Derek a hug. This man needs to be hugged! Oh, poor, poor Derek. I admit that Meredith probably is doing a better job at taking care of him, but still… This episode left me with the feeling of desperately wanting to hug him. Once again proof that I’ve completely fallen for this guy. And once again proof, that Paddy can act, once they give him some decent script. More of it all later, becaue I really have some more urgent things to tend to now.

Info for any Grey’s / PP fans: It’s only Addison left in this Grey’s episode and the story arc ended, so I guess no Grey’s people on Private Practice. Though I haven’t watched that yet. It can and has to wait…