The Ice is Thin, Come On Dive In

Oh, this week.  I have a couple of things to get in to, but let me start with Mad Men.

scribefigaro and I have been about 2 seasons behind since we watch the show on Netflix.  Well, we caught up to only one season behind not too long ago and the new season is out on April 7.  Then, great news happened.  We discovered that Comcast is doing a thing where they're giving away seasons of episodes for free to advertise a particular service this week.  One of the shows of which they were giving away seasons is Mad Men.  scribefigaro and I have been mainlining at least 2 episodes a night to catch up before the promotion is out and before the new season starts.  We'll soon be caught up.

Well, I don't know if it's because I couldn't handle the awesomeness or what, but the last episode we watched tonight, "The Other Woman" (Season 5, episode 11) just wrecked me.  I watched the end completely sobbing.  It helped that my two favorite characters, Joan and Peggy were featured and it showed how Don can be a dick, but still do right by them.  Oh, my girls.  Tonight they both broke my heart.

Joanie is just gorgeous and Christina Hendricks who plays her with such integrity (when she could so easily be played as a dumb cliche).  Her decision in this ep (I won't spoil it) annihilated me.  She did what she had to do, and it may be for the best, but still.  My Joanie.  I love you and you shouldn't have done it.  You deserve so much more.

And Peggy.  I feel like I could have been her in the early 1960s.  Her non-romantic "break up" with Don was far and away the saddest, most touching moment I've seen on this show where numerous marriages and friendships have dissolved.  She was so brave, though.  And I don't think I could have done what she did in spreading her wings.  Like Joanie, she deserves so much more, but she's actually going out and getting it.  Part of my sadness, and Don's I'm sure, is that I don't know when I'll be able to see her again.

This show.  Ugh.  It's a kind of perfection you rarely see on television anymore.  I am looking forward to next season like I cannot even explain.

*collects myself*

In other news, the college I interviewed at last week told me that they'd make a decision this week.  I haven't heard anything.  The chances of me working there are slim (their pay scale is not what I had hoped for), but I was still expecting to at least be able to try and negotiate.  Now I'm wondering if they're going with another candidate.  I was so sure I had this offer.  Again, not that I would take it (it's not quite right, in any case), but I still wanted to be asked.

Now, I think I'll go wreck myself with some more television series pathos.  Maybe I'll watch the commentary on FMA episodes. :)

We've finished discs 2 and 3 of Mad Men this week.  It's still a great show and I'm being highly entertained by it.  I want to punch pretty much every character in the face, or at least tsk at their poor decision-making abilities, but they all have some redeeming qualities and are all trapped, in their own way.

I, of course, love Peggy.  Joan rocks my socks.  I thought she'd be the office bitch, but she's actually quite sweet.  Yes, she can be awful at times, but it is genuinely coming from a good place 90% of the time.

The guys on this show, ugh.  If I were to fanfic this show, it would be a self-insert of me going back in time and lecturing to all of them about the proper and professional way to treat women in the work place, their racism, and their general intolerance of non-WASPs.  Then I'd punch them in the face.  It comes from a place of love.

In other news, it's Friday!  I turned in my latest draft, all of my errands have been run, and I can just fiddle around for the rest of the evening!

HAPPY FRIDAY!