Twelve Days of Christmas (#9)
Early Christmas Presents: Pros and Cons

So, I was over at Andretta's yesterday, and curiosity got the best of me. She'd been wrapping presents and hinted that mine was something that I'd asked for. From the shape of things, I knew we were dealing with something DVD-oriented. Long-story-short, I opened my present from her early, and I got the first season of Grey's Anatomy on DVD. Woo-hoo! I was really excited, but I actually waited until today to break it open which has its good and bad sides.

Good points: well...I'm three episodes into the season. Looks like episode three was the first one I'd seen. While I like everybody in the cast, I must say that Patrick Dempsey—"Dr. McDreamy"—is aptly named. I remember Dempsey from the 80s when he just looked sort of...off. He never seemed to be a heart-throb of any merit. Now, however, he is mesmerizing. He makes "standing around" look like chargeable sexual harrassment (see also, Cheadle, Don: print ads). Yowza!

Bad points: grades are due tomorrow. And I'm three episodes into the season. I only have eight grades left to figure out of two classes of fifteen (or so) each, so I'm not too bad off. Even so, I've left the poorer students for last, and slogging through their last essays is like waiting to declare a patient braindead. See? We literature professors-in-waiting need our own quirky show about how our teaching is so exciting and fraught with danger. Except that there'd only be one straight guy for all of us, and he would most-likely be a depressed and distant loner...ok, yeah, not too interesting after all.

Back to the grind.