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My sister and I spent Friday night watching the end of season one and the beginning of season two of ... wait for it ... Felicity over sushi and TCBY shivers, and I was wholeheartedly entertained by her reactions to everything and how dramatically she waffled between Ben and Noel, like her own life was on the line. She then proceeded to tell me how she'd signed on to the discussion board for admitted law school students and how at first everyone was just making generic posts about their school choices, the gym, the living arrangements, the town, blah blah blah stickupbuttnervouscakes, and in her medicated, post-wisdom teeth surgery delirium, she responded to a poster who'd said, "My name is Hannah," by referencing the episode when Noel tells Felicity he has a girlfriend and she spits in reply, "Hannah? Her name is Hannah?!" and instead of being met with stunned awkward silence, the floodgates were opened and suddenly instead of LSAT scores and dorm dilemmas, everyone started talking about television. There is hope for us yet, America! One poster wrote her admissions essay on Buffy, another lies to her friends that she's busy on Tuesday nights because she's addicted to Gilmore Girls, another said people know better than to call her during The West Wing, one former Trekkie works in L.A. and is currently surrounded by the Save Angel protestors outside his office, and then someone admitted to being one of those protestors outside his office! And it was like that episode of Friends when Joey goes to work at Ross's museum and all of the employees start shouting out their confessions in the lunchroom ("These aren't real!"). "I have to get this off my chest! I'm addicted to The O.C.!" Every now and then a poster would try to bring the introductions back to some level of maturity by talking about respectable things like working in Kenya or teaching in Cambodia, but someone would sneak in with something about Dawson's Creek. All I can really say about any of this is -- awesome. If she's going to end up at the number one law school with a bunch of brainiacs, I'm glad to see that she'll also be around people who can teach her a thing or two about the WB. I've been following the development of the film version of A Wrinkle in Time for years, and it looks like it's going to air on ABC in May after a delay of several years. The good news? Gregory Smith, Ephram on Everwood, is in it, and he's bound to make anything better than it would be without him. He plays Calvin O'Keefe. The bad news is, well, remember A Ring of Endless Light, starring Mischa Barton? Yeah. I shudder at the thought of adaptations of these books. Susan Shilliday wrote for thirtysomething, so I can't hate her automatically on principle like I'd like to, and I hope she's done this book justice. I don't know. I didn't watch the Endless Light travesty, but I kind of want to watch this. I'm conflicted about it. I found a link with some information and the poster here, and if I hadn't seen that the character in the middle is actually Meg (based on some photographs of the actress playing her wearing that costume), I would be wondering who in the hell that guy is in the middle, because the artist's rendering on the poster makes her look straight up like she's got testes.
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