"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."

*sneeze...cough, sneeze*

Seems like I've caught myself a bit of a cold over the weekend. It's hit me like a ton of bricks, so quickly! I'm hoping it doesn't become bronchitis or pneumonia, as we all know how prone I am to that kind of thing. It's funny, I'm sick but once a year or so - and it's always a doozy. Anyway, it did afford me the opportunity to watch some television this weekend, which led me to my following thoughts:

1. Grey's Anatomy's season opener left me rather cold. Sure, I was excited as all get up to see my *friends* come back to entertain me, but outside of the fact that McSteamy had some great lines this week -- the drama that unfolded was so contrived and cutesy -- it really left me thinking that it was a lousy way to open the season. I get the whole "reacquainting" the viewers with the storyline, but it just seemed to me that there could've been a better way to open the season than with the only drama being three friends who crashed in a limosiene -- and their three husbands *coincidentally* crashed as well, and their sordid lives intertwining almost as severely as their car wrecks. Eh. Just fell flat for me.

2. Thank God for DVR! Because this fall causes so many television conflicts for this girl, you can't imagine. First off, we start with Sunday...."Dexter" & "True Blood" are both on at the same time! And then "Entourage" is on afterwards - but seriously, I just can't stay up until 11pm on a *school night*. So that's a Monday night catchup - if there's time after True Blood. And then in October on Tuesdays "Living with the Wolfman" on Animal Planet is going to be my fix for that night. Just wait until "Big Love" comes back...hopefully that will fill the mid-week. Thursday is "Greys' Anatomy night...and then there's Friday which doesn't have anything good on ever. That's pretty much just an "On Demand" kind of evening. Never mind that fact that it's hello - Soxtober, which means baseball is going to take precedence over anything else.

So now, if you don't mind -- I'm going to go take my temperature, because the truth of the matter is....I feel a fever coming on. I need to nip this in the bud because I've got one flipping day off between jobs and I have a date with the Wrentham outlets that day - that I refuse to miss!