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Tery is just the sweetest girlfriend I could ever ask for. She is obviously making an effort to accept my unavoidable obsession (even though I do try to tone it down for her and not gush too much about every little Alan thing I think about) because yesterday she went to Blockbuster and actually rented the "Sex and the City" disc with the Alan episode on it. This is because everything in my life is a saga, I don't know why that is, but hardly anything is ever as simple and straightforward for me as it should be (I suspect I am being punished for my misanthropic attitude, though by who is the question, since I am also an agnostic). I saw "The Real Me" on the program guide weeks in advance, was suitably excited, but alas we don't get HBO, having jumped ship over to Showtime soon after "Oz" ended. I considered such extreme tactics as switching back just for the weekend, wondering if DirecTV would notice or even care.

I thought Tery had saved the day when she suggested that her co-worker Christy at the bar could tape it for me. She spent the next week impressing on Christy how very crucial this favor was for me, but I still had my reservations. I am sure Christy is a very nice person and everything, but had no idea if she were forgetful or alcoholic or both and really was not comfortable putting the fate of my Alan viewing solely in her hands. So I devised a backup plan, asking one of my co-workers to tape it also, even going so far as to meet him in the middle of the day with my Alan compilation tape so all he had to do was push record at the appropriate time (that's it....just one little button....doesn't sound hard, does it? No, I didn't think so either.)

I then spent a week playing tag with him as he continually forgot to bring the tape into work. One day I was absolutely mortified when he grinned at me and said I could at least have given him a tape with something else on it he would enjoy watching.....yeah, well, I don't imagine he found "Plunkett and McLeane" in 3-minute segments, all of them featuring a particularly attractive black-haired actor, terribly entertaining. I think I turned four shades of red.

Anyway, I FINALLY got my tape back and settled down Saturday night to watch it, my heart all aflutter. I excitedly pushed play....and realized with a sinking feeling that my friend had taped 30 minutes of snow. Static. Nada. When I suggested to him later he brush up on the use of his VCR he was very surprised and apologetic, but that wasn't going to bring Alan to my screen.

No matter, I had Christy's tape, right? Wrong. Tery said she didn't tape it because she had the whole series on DVD and was going to loan me the disc. I pointed out despairingly that I couldn't copy a DVD, which Tery hadn't realized. But since then I bought a new computer because my old one was complete crap and that is a very long story, anyway I now have a DVD burner. But then Christy went into the hospital with a tumor on her ovaries.

So YOU tell ME the fates aren't aligned against me for whatever reason. Go on, I'm listening.....

So the lovely Tery brought me the Blockbuster copy of "The Real Me" on DVD and I thought, great, I will just burn me a copy of it and I can die a happy girl. But having had the computer for only a week and with no experience copying DVDs (only CDs), the program proved much more obstinate than I thought it would be and my initial diagnosis is that there might be a write-protect on the Blockbuster disc preventing my success. Either that or I am just doing something wrong because I am too busy to bother with such things as instructions. Does anyone know anything about this who can help me? Tery saved the day again by suggesting we rent the VHS version, which I CAN copy with my fancy VHS-to-DVD converter, the primary reason I bought this machine.

But hey, I at least had the episode at last and could watch it to tide me over until I solved this particular conundrum, right? So I popped it in last night while Tery was in the shower, and I laughed my ass off. Not just because it is a hilarious episode, but because I recognized it instantly as one I had seen very recently (however pre-Alan obsession); how could I forget the line "Oh my God, she's fashion roadkill!" as Heidi Klum steps over poor Carrie who has just fallen on her face on the runway? Of course my heart stopped anew when Alan came on the screen, but I just couldn't get over that I had just watched this episode probably in the middle of April, probably shortly before seeing "X-Men 2" and a certain "cute mute" changed my life, and Alan had made not the slightest impression on me. To be fair, he was only in the episode for a total of 5 minutes, not enough time to showcase his vast talent.

But the funny thing is when Tabby came over later I showed it to her, and she enthusiastically pronounced she liked him much better in this than in "Josie," and when I showed her his adorable runway pic (see right) she got a little smile on her face and agreed that he WAS quite attractive. (but I suspect her newfound openness might have something to do with the fact that she has recently tried sleeping with a guy and realizes they aren't as horrible as Tery would have her think. She still thinks girls are better in bed (generally I agree) but has a little broader horizon now.) Mind you, I don't expect her to go as head-over-heels as I have, but I will be content to not be thought of as completely loony.

Okay, back to work for me. Peace

Date: 2003-07-26 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] swankyfunk.livejournal.com
The DRAMA that we go through for Alan! Seriously!


everything in my life is a saga, I don't know why that is, but hardly anything is ever as simple and straightforward for me as it should be

That's me. That's so me. Heh.


"Plunkett and McLeane" in 3-minute segments

Hilarious because I know exactly what you're talking about.

Date: 2003-07-26 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrgoyl.livejournal.com
Really? Your life is a saga too? I was beginning to think I was a modern-day Job or something. So we are both perves and we both have saga-filled lives. Hmmmm.....you might be my new best friend. lol

And yes, all the drama we go through for Alan makes it all the more categorically unfair that we (or at least I) will most likely never get to meet him. The biggest, most tragic saga of all.

Date: 2003-07-26 10:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] swankyfunk.livejournal.com
Well actually the larger part of my existence is drop dead boring, but the rare out-of-the-ordinary things, however seemingly insignificant to others, tend to take on epic proportions. At least in my head. :)

Date: 2003-07-27 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemian-charm.livejournal.com
I was going to agree with you two and say that my life is a saga as well, but then I realized it's definately more of a Lifetime made-for-TV movie. I've seriously had several people tell me that, no joke.

Date: 2003-07-27 05:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrgoyl.livejournal.com
hmmmm.....methinks I see a quiz in the making here... "Which Lifetime made-for-TV movie would your life be?" Or maybe "Which ABC afterschool special would your life be?" Unfortunately I don't watch Lifetime enough to do this myself.

And my sagas are definitely not in my head. Even Tery shakes her head in wonder at how many simple things end up being surpassingly difficult for me for me to accomplish. I really do think I pissed off a vengeful god somewhere.

Date: 2003-07-27 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemian-charm.livejournal.com
Of course my heart stopped anew when Alan came on the screen, but I just couldn't get over that I had just watched this episode probably in the middle of April, probably shortly before seeing "X-Men 2" and a certain "cute mute" changed my life, and Alan had made not the slightest impression on me.
Ya know, I'd seen Alan in tons of movies and such and he never really made much of an impression on me either. I can't even remember what it was that suddenly made everything click and made me fall deeply in love with him. But after it all clicked, I went back to watch all these movies Alan was in that I'd seen before, and had that same sort of "woah, I can't believe I watched him in this before without totally hyperventilating" experience. Teehee.

Date: 2003-07-27 05:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrgoyl.livejournal.com
-"woah, I can't believe I watched him in this before without totally hyperventilating" experience-

lol I know EXACTLY what you mean. The only thing I could remember him in clearly was "Circle of Friends," and well, that probably isn't his hottest role. I went through this same thing with Nic Cage after seeing him in "City of Angels." I guess it just takes that one breakthrough role to earn them whole new legions of fans (although Nic never made me feel like Alan does, so he was just a phase. Alan is the real thing. lol)

Date: 2004-05-01 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooselet.livejournal.com
Okay, okay, you caught me reading your old journal entries. ; )

I have to take exception to this: So YOU tell ME the fates aren't aligned against me for whatever reason. Go on, I'm listening.....

However they may have felt about you in the past, you are certainly a favorite of theirs now.

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