It’s true that I watch too much TV. Last night I found myself watching an episode of People Who Insult Each Other’s Cooking and I found myself drawn in by all the dramatic musical cues and backstage gossip. They really do insult each other’s cooking a lot. And now I’m emotionally invested, so I have to keep watching! What kind of terrible cycle have I found myself abiding by?
It’s affecting me on a truly deep level, too. I was watching Week of Our Lives and there was this guy who came on the show called Darrin, and he’s a graphic designer from Melbourne. He’s the adorkable type, wears knitted vests and glasses but has amazing hair and has the most gorgeously husky voice…uh, anyway, Darrin came to Melbourne to pursue his graphic design dreams, but his attempts to woo Deirdre are met with repeated failure since she just sees him as a nerdy guy who does stuff with computers. But they Bryce, who runs the local gym and is secretly a jerk, is suddenly all jealous because it’s his secret dream to be a graphic designer and he’s also in love with Deirdre (and also Audrey, but that’s a long story) and now he’s set up this elaborate plan to take Darrin out of the game because he’s convinced that Darrin is going to steal Deirdre from him.
Unknown to both of them, Deirdre is secretly blind but she hasn’t told anyone yet, and she puts up an icy layer of indifference so that people will accept the fact that she never looks them in the eye. Also, she has really good hearing which is how she gets around. And she wants to be a graphic designer, but losing her sight took that away from her. In the end of the episode, there was tense stand-off as all three tried to design graphically, in their own ways, because there’s a Melbourne logo design competition coming up and they’re all gunning for the grand prize.
Yeah, I need to watch less of this stuff…
-Perry