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Netflix is a great thing. It allows me to get all kinds of movies and tv shows delivered to my door. When I am finished, I just put them back in the mail. One of the netflix services is to suggest movies and tv shows based off of your rating of shows you have watched. One of the suggested shows was the British tv show – MI-5. I thought it sounded like Alias – a fast paced, action driven show. I watched three seasons and I think I am done with it. The episodes are 58 minutes long – an American TV show is 42 minutes at the longest. The show just seems to drag. The characters might be spies, but they don’t live very exciting lives. They don’t even carry guns or have cool toys. Not to mention that over only three seasons all of the original (and some of the second round) characters have been killed and replaced. I gave it a fair shot, but enough is enough.

I have to admit that I did like one British tv show – Coupling was very good.

I got nine hours of sleep last night (as opposed to my normal six) and I feel like I’m on top of the world. I don’t think I realized how tired I was all of the time. I would get to work and just feel drained. Turning on my little heater was out of the question or I would start to nod off. It finally hit me last night and I crawled into bed at 11 as opposed to my normal midnight or 1 AM.

Now that I realize I need more sleep, I’m not sure what to change. I work 45 hours a week and have class till 10 o’clock a couple of times a week. I have studying, my books for fun, all my TV shows, my netflix movies, my dog to play with, keeping up with friends, and talking to Wade. Now obviously tv would be the logical thing to go, but I have to admit that I love just chilling on the couch for a little while. Hmmm – I think I’ll just create a few more hours in the day….

I happily lived without cable for three years. I would occasionally download a tv show off the Internet, and I did watch a ton of movies, but I didn’t miss tv. There was no show to watch every week – no worrying about missing an episode. Nada.

Then Wade and I got married, and he convinced me he needed cable for football. I didn’t really care one way or the other – at the time. Now I wouldn’t be too happy to lose my cable or my TiVo. I love TiVo – I program in the shows I like and don’t have to worry about the VCR being set correctly or having enough space on a tape. It didn’t take long at all for me to become caught up in every single “popular” tv show – from the WB, to ABC, to reruns on the Sci-Fi channel. The problem is now I seem to watch every tv show – Roswell, Lost, Alias, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Medium, 4400, Numb3rs, One Tree Hill, Will & Grace, Sliders, and so on. Well, thank goodness for summer. Most of the shows take a break, and I can focus on other things – like movies!

Last night, my friend Josh put together an outing to see Batman Begins at the IMAX theater. Wade and I met some friends for trivia – where we lost badly – and then we headed to the theater. The movie was awesome! It makes me sorry the older ones exist. This new one provided some great backstory and had very cool fight scenes – well what I could see of them. Because of the super large screen, and my particular seat, most of the fight scenes appeared to be a black blur with one man (Batman) left standing at the end. The only issue I had with the movie (don’t read ahead if you haven’t seen it) was the dissipation of the toxin. It was used on various people in the movie and once exposed, they didn’t recover unless they received an antidote. Before Gordon and Batman manage to stop the vaporization of the city’s contaminated water, quite a large number of people are exposed – both in the Narrows and in Gotham. Then suddenly everyone seems better. Oh well, I definitely like movies that have bigger issues.

And now my most exciting news. I have tickets to an advance screening of Serenity! This movie is based on a canceled Fox tv series – Firefly. Jamie Richey introduced me to the show after it had been canceled. I watched all of the 12 episodes in two days – my addictive personality peeking through. Then Wade gave me the DVD set for Christmas and I discovered a couple of unaired episodes. The sale of the DVDs showed the network and the creator, Joss Whedon, the show’s tremendous following.

A movie script was written and finally picked up. All of the original cast members are in the movie – a wester sci-fi set 500 years in the future. It is the story of a crew of misfits and renegades aboard a spaceship as they travel far out in space. The movie was initially going to be released in May, but it was decided Star Wars was too much competition. The release date is now September 30th, but there have been a couple of advance screenings in select cities (Atlanta included), next Thursday is the third. I have tried to get tickets, but have always been too late – until now. A friend of a friend actually went to the theater and got us all tickets – I can’t wait!!!