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I wrote the first chapter of LC III (The Revenge) while plugging in computers today. I mean, the outline's all up in my head. Along with a couple of other thoughts that only seven hours of plugging in computers could spawn. Lord knows when I'll get any of it on paper.

I really wish there was a polite way to say "I am sure you are an interesting person but I only get forty five minutes to myself all day and I really just want to read The Shadow Of The Wind in peace because it is the first book that has ever actually scared me as I was reading it and I have to know how it ends so please don't be insulted that I'm going to ignore you now." Instead the scary woman who tells me what to do spent all lunch telling me about how she became an engineer.

This is how pathetic I am -- despite the fact that I am now working during the day I still make up a daily schedule, which goes from five pm until midnight and consists of three things: Family Time, Job Applications, and Writing. I'm coming to you live from Family Time (we're here all week until 7!).

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That's right! It's time for Sam's Three or Maybe More Like Six Things About HOUSE MD.

Maybe it's just the hiatus and I was going through withdrawal, but this episode cracked me up.

(NCIS was also particularly good tonight. "So, Abby, white meat or dark? ...was that inappropriate?" "With a big side of CREEPY.")

1. Wilson's multiple high-voiced freakouts about House and Stacey is possibly the comedic high point of the character's existence except OMG NOT BECAUSE HIM ROLLING JOINTS IN HIS OFFICE WAS SO AWESOME. Almost as awesome as House stealing one. Alas, however, Wilson will never be as awesome as House. It is his lot in life to be second-awesomest. STILL. SO AWESOME. Writers of House, please ignore what I say in 3a.

2. "I'm not sad, I'm complicated. Chicks dig that." Why did I never think to add House to the "Chicks Dig Screwups" series of icons? IT SHALL HAPPEN FORTHWITH. (this was going to be about Stacey showing her true colours as the insecure freak she is, but she's less interesting than House bickering with an eight year old.)

3. What I think is so vital to why I love this show is that while it is formulaic and occasionally trite, House as a character is completely uncompromising. It's encapsulated perfectly in this episode in both positive and negative lights, but most of all by this quote: "The most important letter of my life and you're still an ass." "Comforting, isn't it?" House doesn't take the easy route and he doesn't let other people use him to take their own easy routes, because the easy route is not always the good route. And when Mark insisted on trying to make House part of his little emofest, House left him in a stairwell. While I don't think his actions in and of themselves are awesome, I think the complete fidelity to his character which the show unblinkingly maintains is fantastic, and I wish there were more of it in modern popular media.

3a. They did not just use the word snarky in the episode. Nor did they bluescreen in a "sunrise" that looks ridiculously like the sky right before the return of Zool in Ghostbusters for the big love scene. Writers of House, I shake my head at you.

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