So, that happened

[frahulettaes]

Met Traci Dinwiddie yesterday. I've admired her blog for a while and how she seems to live life so richly. She's completely beautiful.

I watched Newsroom.

I can state, with complete truthfulness, that I'm an Aaron Sorkin fan. I loved West Wing. And well, most of his other work that I've seen. (sadly, not Sports Night, yet.) So when I saw that Newsroom was coming, strangely, by watching Craig Fergeson (craigy ferg!), I got a little excited. I grew up on Lou Grant and Mary Tyler Moore as well as WKRP in Cinncinati, so I've watched both sides of the news sorts of shows. I'm pretty much a prime audience both for Sorkin and news drama.

I was not disappointed. I've heard that people either love or hate Sorkin. People who hate him think that he's a snooty intellectual, pompous and self important. I've always wondered who, exactly, thinks that and have secretly thought they might be a little jealous. It's a bit too sour grapes-y sounding to me which makes me a little dubious.

I was relieved to find that Newsroom is everything I love about Aaron Sorkin's writing. For all the same reasons that I loved the West Wing. I could go on about the snappy-ness or the cultural savvy but it really boils down to: I agree with him.

And sometimes, it's nice to hear someone you agree with after listening to a bunch of crap that passes for news for so long.

I don't often see myself portrayed in media, physically, emotionally or intellectually. (I'm not that smart, but I do like people who are). So, this is probably as self indulgent as Newsroom seems to be to critics. But, at this point, I'll take what I can get.

Later, I'll post about my trip to Austin. I'm having a hard to finding ways to describe how much I loved it without sounding repetitive. Suffice to say, I ate way more BlueBell ice cream than is healthy for a person over a five day span of time and that I'm not sorry for it. Not one. little. jot. (blackberry cobbler flavored. I dare you to resist.)

I felt, when boarding the plane, as though I were making the biggest mistake of my life. Leaving Texas. Well, there's a title for you.

Happy Sunday, y'all.