Becoming a Junkie

Used to be, I viewed people who watched hour after hour of TV with derision. I mean, I had my shows I liked--I could watch three hours in a row of Law & Order. Sometimes I could watch an episode I'd already seen, sometimes one I'd even seen more than once! (The one that starred Katherine Moenning, Shane from the L Word, I watched a few times. And the one with the lesbian stalker/murderer of her lover's husband.)

Since I've been pregnant, I'm clocking a lot of couch time. I'm almost embarrassed about it, but in a way, I'm psyched that I have an excuse to watch so much TV. I have a new obsession though: Without a Trace. I'm so much more into it than L&O now. I had known Anthony LaPaglia was on the show, but other than that, I didn't watch. WAT follows Cold Case, another of my favorite crime drama shows, on Sunday nights, and once I stayed up late and watched it. I'm hooked now. A friend of ours who has worked with Poppy Montgomery, the hot, sassy blonde FBI agent (above), said, "She is one crazy bitch. The craziest actor I've ever worked with, besides a drunk Tom Berenger." I love her even more for that!

More exciting is the second to last night of The Biggest Loser, tonight. I'm not SO into the show, but I love the last 30 seconds, when the person kicked off the ranch gets a minute at the end, so that we can see what s/he looks like today. The transformations are incredible, and so miraculous. I feel they spend too much time on the weigh-ins though.

In between reruns of WAT last night, I read a pretty useful book called Balancing Pregnancy and Work. A lot of the stuff I already knew, and I'm lucky to work for a company that has a great maternity leave, but if you don't, check out the book.