For some reason I always thought Labor Day was some kind of war holiday, like Memorial or Veterans Day. It’s only today that it occurred to me it might have something to do with, you know, labor and work and stuff. Anyway, complete coincidence but today I also focused on not slacking off and actually getting some work done. And I mean getting up and doing writing work and then taking a break and then doing more work. The hard part isn’t always the getting started, it’s starting back up after you’ve had a little time to congratulate yourself on the morning’s work, but then eventually you have to stop congratulating and face the fact that you really need to sit down and do SOME MORE of it before you’ve really earned your pat on the back for the day.

But anyway, today I didn’t slack off, so today I feel good. Also I found out that ALL of my shows are returning this fall. Finding out one of your shows isn’t coming back is like getting a lump of coal in your stocking.

For anyone who’s interested–cause I’m sure this is riveting stuff–these are my shows, in no particular order:

Bones
House
Modern Family
Community
Supernatural
Life Unexpected (well, this is *probably* one of my shows, since I’m still only partway through season one)
Glee
The Office

I have a love/hate relationship with Parenthood, which I noticed is also still on. I really can’t stand that show. I hate everybody on it. I hate the lessons the show tries but fails to teach. It is BARF. But… also I love to hate it and for a while couldn’t stop watching it even though it pissed me off every time. Probably because besides being all those things I said, it’s also really JUICY. And juicy is addicting. It’s like one of those pop songs you hate but can’t stop humming to yourself. (And yeah, I thought I would love it because it has Lauren Graham and is made by Ron Howard, but sometimes these things just happen.)