Well, there isn't anything to report about the success of the new medication. The king of the potato people told me not to worry about the tu-tu's falling off of the dancing pink elephants.

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(Dictionary links provided for Kyle!)
I have been watching another show that Kyle is going to mock me out for indulging in. But I know a couple other people that are into Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so I feel a little solidarity. I have made it through the first two seasons and I am already impressed by the evolution of the show. The character development has been enjoyable as well, when the show started Buffy was a somewhat insolent, self-absorbed and depressed character(well, she was a sixteen year old girl starting at a new high school). But by the end of the second season Buffy and her friends have all been through some entertaining, enjoyable and sometimes disgusting adventures. I seriously enjoy when the episodes are not all independent stories, but they are subtly interconnected (Early in the first season there is an obsessed cheerleader Mom that switches bodies with her daughter to "relive" her glory days, but when dust from the fighting settles the Mom is trapped for eternity as the metal figure on top of a cheerleading trophy. Late in the second season, one of the new recurring characters is standing in front of the trophy swaying from side to side and expresses his amazement at the fact that the trophy's eyes seem to follow you. That kind of thing is awesome, it only takes a couple seconds on the show, but seriously tickles me.)
But something that I didn't really think about until I read an article in Entertainment Weekly. The article was reviewing Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Chosen. It is a boxed DVD set that, I think, contains all the episodes from all seven season. But in the article they talk about how a lot of the plots are allegories for teen issues. One of the most overt of these types of plots was when a girl who was ignored, and seriously left out of everything turned invisible. If you are not familiar with the show, the town is built on a hellmouth: A convergence of mystical energy that means that freaky and bizarre things are pretty commonplace. More allegories include episodes where the swim team's coach is giving them all inhaled steroids, and they start turning into real monsters. Or when Buffy sleeps with her boyfriend, he is transformed into a violent demon. But the lore that is slowly introduced (there is potential for some overloaded viewers) is nice. Like the fact that vampires disintegrate when exposed to sunlight. Or turn to ash when you stake them, or that they can't come into your home unless you invite them. And some of them drive around during the day, but their cars have all blacked out windows to keep the pesky sunlight out. Fun times.