Lost

A couple days ago, I finished the last episode of season six of Lost after starting the series about five weeks previously. I had a few glorious hours of feeling done, free from the obsession of needing to know what happens next. The next day I started the series over again.

I just finished episode of 9 of season 1, "Solitary." I love all the small things you notice the second time, foreshadowing and character traits and all that that you didn't see the first time. Part of the reason I started over is because two of my friends in my math class have also just started out from points in the fourth season and we all wanted to talk about it together. One of the downsides of watching a show long after it aired is that it's hard to find someone to talk about it with. Another reason is that I just miss it. I missed my favorite characters that died and I missed having to make lists to keep up with where everyone was and whether they were still alive or not.

One of the best parts about watching old episodes again is getting to see Charlie's back story again. Charlie is my favorite character, hands down. I though he was sweet and had good chemistry with Claire. He and Hurley, and later, Desmond, were great as best friends, and generally made me smile. Others of my favorite characters included Hurley, Desmond, Daniel, Sawyer, Juliet, Sun and Claire. Overall, I didn't think the female characters were very strong. Kate never seemed to act in character to how she had previously been portrayed. Jack always bothered me because as the doctor, he should have refused to take charge and said that he needed to take care of his patients. Because he didn't, we had to hear about him complaining about being in control all the time.

I was trying to find the song Charlie wrote on the island for DriveShaft, Monster Ate The Pilot, on the internet and instead ran into The Oceanic Six instead. I can't stop listening to their song Monster Eats The Pilot. So I guess I found what I was looking for, in a way.

College

It's been a long time since I've had and regularly updated a blog, but recently, I decided to take it up again. I'm pretty sure the decision is a direct result of my recent obsession with watching vlogs. I saw John Green on his Will Grayson, Will Grayson tour with David Levithan in April, and first started watching Hank and John a couple of days later. Since then, my time spent watching things on YouTube has multiplied by...well, a lot.

Today, instead of doing my homework, I've spent the day in front of the computer and trying to narrow down my choices for colleges. All I'd really decided on was that I wanted to go out of state, (probably) and I wanted to study psychology. My mom gave me our copy of Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges so I've worked out a system for narrowing down possible states to look at. In the Psychology section of the book, I find all of the schools listed for a particular state. I then put them into this in groups of five. If any of the schools are listed as rural or having an undergraduate population of under 3500, they get deleted from the list. If all of the schools from a state get crossed out, it gets crossed out on my printed map. If at least one school makes the cut, the state gets a check mark, meaning I'll look at it later.

In total, I managed to cross out fifteen states, seven of which I crossed out because of the weather they get there. I'm a heat and humidity person, so chances are I'll be heading south for college, but I still have no idea.

The colleges in the book are organized alphabetically in three groups; there's a Most Selective group, a Very Selective group and a group that is simple Selective. After the name of the college, it will have the state's abbreviation in parenthesis. I was thrilled to find that, except for Maine (it's ME), I knew all of them. The surprising part about this is that I don't remember having ever learned them.