So, I'm starting a blog.

I looked around the internet today, and I thought: you know the internet needs?  More people talking about TV.  So I thought I'd rectify that gaping hole in internet pop culture blogs, and start this one.

This has a dual purpose, in that I'm starting out on the (very scary) process of writing a dissertation, and I think I need a distraction.  I love history with all my heart, but I have another great love: sitting on the couch, watching TV.  Also reading, but that's a lot more respectable, and hence a lot less funny.  I'll talk about other stuff too (movies, general pop culture) but mostly TV.

So join me (or not, whatevs) as I talk about my favorite TV shows: the good (Game! Of Thrones!) the comfort-food (Law and Order: SVU) (shut up), and the middling-to-terrible (Smash, why do you suck so much?)

Things I'm capable of, and those I'm not.

Things I can't do off the top of my head:

1) Multiplication

2) Tell my right from my left

3) Division

4) Addition or subtraction with numbers larger than 5 

5) Not get lost, even in familiar places

6) Math

Things I can do off the top of my head:

1) Answer Star Wars-based trivia questions.

2) Answer Harry Potter-based trivia questions.

3) Answer Hunger Games-based trivia questions.

4) Explain the very real social issues grappled with on Downton Abbey.

5) Make tacos.

I'd rate my usefulness to humanity at about a 4.