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Last week was one of the hottest weeks we’ve had in San Diego since I moved back here in February. One of the reasons that I like SD is the in the summer, even when it gets hot, you almost never have the humidity that I’m used to back home in Connecticut. Hot, while I don’t really like it, I can deal with much easier than humid. But this past week was hot AND humid. Couple that with no air conditioning and minimal windows with screens to open and, well, I’m sure you can imagine how little I got done last week.

I could stay focused on much of anything and found myself spending most of my time in my living room which is the coolest in the house. Normally I would pack up my laptop and my books and whatever else I might need for what I have to do and I’d set up shop down there, but there was really no work of any kind to be done last week. So for that I do apologise for being behind on email and Twitter replies! Tuesday will begin a whole new, less gross week, and things will get back to normal.

So as a lay melting on the couch with one fan pointed at me at all times, I got bored and started flipping through the Netflix options on my Xbox. Streaming Netflix is the best thing ever! As I’m looking through the new arrivals I decide to look at television shows that are up for watching. I see “Lost” season one listed. I have to admit that I have never seen so much as part of an episode of that show. In part I think it was because everyone kept trying to get me to watch it and because.everyone kept telling me how much I would love it. I have serious issues with anything that depicts plane crashes so something like this wasn’t ever up my ally. But for some reason, and it may have been the heat, I found myself watching the first episode of season one.

One that first day I watched, without knowing it, about 6 hours of the first season. The next day I was up bright and early and watched another 4 or 5 episodes. Before I knew it I had my husband watching it with me and we finished the first season and moved on to the second. Now, from this one would likely think “Ah, another fan of the show”. I don’t know if that’s really true. Yet.

I really like the acting on the show and that is the one thing that has me coming back each time. I like just about all the characters with Hurley and Locke being my favorites. But there are some things that aren’t working for me that, I hope, will be worked out later in the show, but I also know that by season three things start getting really weird. Most people that I’ve heard talk about losing interest in the show lost it somewhere in season three. I’m hoping I don’t have that problem but you never know.

I’ve never been a fan of J.J. Abrams but I’m giving this a fair shot I think. I am enjoying it and I like the twists and turns but, maybe it’s me since most people find the twists surprising, but some of them I could see coming from a mile away. And of course the one thing that is annoying me the most is “The Monster”. There better be a good explanation of that because so far it’s annoying me like crazy. I do especially like the flashbacks that explain everyone’s stories.

I’m going to take a little break for a few days though. It’s actually a little depressing to me and I’m starting to find myself crying by the end of about every other episode. Maybe as it get’s weirder that will happen less. But so far my “let’s give ‘Lost’ a try” adventure is going alright. And now that the heat has rolled out I’ll be able to get back to work and I will be watching more reasonable chunks at a time.