I'm done with finals! It was a tough week, but somehow I survived. I think my grades could go either way...some of the tests were pretty hard, but I'm just happy to be done.

The post finals haze is finally clearing up but I still have that lingering feeling of guild that I'm not constantly studying. That too should fade. Time to enjoy winter break and figure out my top albums of 2009. Also we're going on a road trip again, so I need to start getting ready for that.

Oh by the way, we had a Dexter finale party last night. I can't even begin ...4th season might have been the best, or at least a very close tie with season 1. John Lithgow was so creepy. And the twist at the end! It was a flashing lights twist, but I can't even begin getting into describing how well done that was without ruining what happened.

One final down and three more to go. Next one is on Thursday. IP. Not as scared of it as I probably should be because I've got that outline done. And it's not closed book like Remedies. Sales was my final today. I really can't tell you how I did on that one, but it's done.

I caught up on Dexter too. Sooo good. I can't believe I'm going to be stuck studying while that finale is one. Going to be so hard to resist.

Gossip Girl was not as good. They need to hire new writers for that show or seriously reconsider some of the stories they're doing. Also that whole Chuck talking to Bart thing they tried to pull tonight kind of felt like it was taken directly out of Dexter. Just saying. Seriously, though. There's a long break anyway. Maybe they can cook something up in that time.

Also, finally got Strict Joy by the Swell Season. So go0d.

There was no new Gossip Girl tonight. It was the rerun of the episode where Chuck finds out that Lily and Rufus have a kid. I don't know which one. I didn't watch it. Listened to Gianni's radio show instead. I also watched this ridiculous new reality show on ABC called True Beauty. I tried to stop watching several times, but it's one of those train wrecks where you just can't look away.

Anyway, I guess they're really going through with that Gossip Girl spin-off. I was kind of excited about it at first because Lily van der Woodson's one of the more interesting characters on the show. It really just looks like a disaster in the making. I'll probably end up watching the first episode just because, but I really don't know why they have to make it. You already know what's going to happen to Lily and as interesting as Lily and Rufus's fling in Monteceito might really be, it's also something that they could cover just as easily in a series of flash backs (maybe I just watch too much Lost). Whatever. They're the ones losing money over this right?

I completed Book #6 in my quest to read 50 books in 2009. #6 was Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. The book was okay. The show is a lot better, in my opinion. The Dexter storyline isn't quite the same without Michael C. Hall narrating everything and the music. The characters weren't as exciting. Masouka's not nearly as quirky and weird. Angel is not important at all, which is a pity because he's definitely one of the cooler characters on the show. Also, LaGuerda in the book was shallow and obnoxious. She was cold in the first season of the show, but at least they portrayed her as a strong character. Dexter only kills a couple of people and the build up to the revelation of the Ice Truck Killer was lame. There are very few Harry flashbacks. Deb whined the whole time (Oh wait, she kind of does that on the show). The only thing that I thought was interesting was how Dexter started to think that he was the Ice Truck Killer. I don't know. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't end up comparing it to the show the entire time. My two cents, anyway. I think the next book I'm going to read is some book by Anthony Bourdain. Don't remember the title.