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On the way out the door on Friday, one of the managers told me, "Don't drink too much this weekend." I was a little baffled until I remembered it's St Patrick's Day weekend in Chicago. He needn't have worried, I've spent the weekend to date in bed feeling miserable.

And mainlining Daria, which I downloaded last week because I realised I only ever saw about half the episodes. I have come to know a few things:

1. The X-Files and Daria were the defining television shows of my adolescence, which probably says more about my adult personality than I'm comfortable with.

2. I wasn't aware Daria was a spinoff of Beavis and Butthead, where she was an occasional character. In high school I found that show totally unwatchable. But I thought, you know, I'm twice the age I was when Beavis and Butthead were huge, maybe I'll understand the show better now. Maybe I'll be able to appreciate its subversive qualities on some kind of deeper intellectual level. So I looked up a few clips, and tried to watch, and I swear to god I felt brain cells die. This explains a lot about the adult personalities of many of my peers.

3. For the last ten years I've been assuming Daria and Jane were dating, because I never saw the episodes where A) Jane got a boyfriend and B) Daria then got the same boyfriend. I think I'm going to assume Tom was their best gay friend and they were just fighting about who got to use him as a beard, because for a couple of episodes there he totally ruined all that was good about Daria and Jane.

3a. Trent was always a funny character, but he's about nine thousand times funnier after having lived with a musician.

To sum up: Daria still awesome. Misery Chick still the best episode because Daria said, "I'm not miserable. I'm just not like them."