I stayed away from the phenomenon that is Glee for a reason. I didn't believe it would live up to the hype, and I'm a little picky about my music, although my taste in music might be in question.

However, I have fallen in love with Glee, just like Lala said I would.

Always on the lookout for anything that has to do with dance or music, I stumbled across a program that is showcasing groups singing a capella, meaning there are absolutely no musical instruments of any kind in use -- it's all strictly vocals..


I missed this when it first aired, but thanks to the wonder of Hulu.com, I was able to catch the entire pilot episode.

I don't really care for Nick Lachey, and I wasn't really sure how I was going to like The Sing Off, but I was hooked from the first performance of all eight groups singing "Under Pressure" from Queen and David Bowie.

Just listen to the first performance, you don't have to watch the rest of the program, although I highly recommend it, if you can get past Lachey -- no musical instruments. It's amazing.

Unfortunately, one of my favorite groups didn't make it to the second round (and I'll bet you'll know who they are immediately based on their performance, heh)) but my first pick, I think, is going to go all the way.

Thoroughly enjoyable, and it makes performers who lip synch sound like washed out dishrags and I wonder, really wonder, why this society seems to reward the fake over the substance.

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Myth, Fairy Tale, and Psyche In Pan's Labyrinth is a fascinating read on what's behind Guillermo del Toro's dark, magical, and brilliant film. I can't pretend I understood all of it, or even some of it, and the comments quickly flew over my head and shat all over my two brain cells. However, it did give me a lot of food for thought about the material I'm writing (or not writing....shhh!) and what I ultimately would like to accomplish.

There is a change. Personal thing still suck hardcore, and that hasn't changed. But I'm feeling a shift, and maybe that portends maybe not better times, exactly, but easier times. I've blogged this month more than I have in the last two, and I guess that's a start. I began work on Chapter 22, where I left my hapless heroine on the brink of Something Important. I've stuck my head back out into the social media, albeit on a much smaller scale (and I intend to keep it that way, for now.)

Truth is, I've wallowed enough. Not that there is an "enough", and if I think about it too long I'm right back there. So, this is me, not thinking. Just doing.

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There are many ways to be unkind to yourself. I don't want to do that anymore.