You're nicked!

After a solid week and a half of working (museum and magazine), and a great deal of school work (15 days to go!) I decided to give myself a day off. Today I sat around reading and watching TV.

I finished reading A Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis. This was her first novel before the Falco series. It was a very sweet romance novel with decent Roman things in it (no debauchery!).

I also got to another Hamish Macbeth novel, Death of a Hussy.

But best of all I am watching a whole bunch of episodes of Life on Mars. This show rocks in the way BBC shows generally do. An outlandish premise that doesn't get too complex because there are only a very few episodes. Compare this to an American show that has to ramble on for 30 episodes a season... season after season. You can just feel the writers on these shows desperately trying to come up with something else to fill an hour. With just eight episodes per season LoM is a tight show that promises (and keeps that promise) a conclusion to the situation. They did, however, stretch this to a second season, but 16 episodes is still a good amount to tell a complex story. I'm about half-way through the second season, so don't tell me how it ends!

Rumor has it that there is an American version planned. If this is true (an the shows a hit) then Sam will never get home. If its a flop, then Sam will still never get home because it will be pulled so fast the producers wouldn't be able to conclude the show. Just watch the BBC version. At least it has an ending.