divine angst

So I’m watching Kitchen Confidential, and I’m a little dubious. I mean, it has Will and Xander! But it also has James King.

There is perhaps one thing this show could add that would make me watch it, no matter the quality: Pacey. Then it would star a compelling trio of actors who gained fame on other shows!

I’ll give it a few weeks; it’s on right after Arrested Development, so it’s no hardship to just leave the TV on Fox. But if they disappoint me by making Will a whiner or Xander a complete idiot (you know, like they did on those other shows, at least until each respective character had to step up and do something to save the world), I won’t be able to keep watching it.

Update: OK, the end of the show pulled it out. I can only imagine this episode was the pilot (they usually are), and for a pilot, it was pretty good at using the comic abilities of its actors and developing a story.

Look, Fox is getting pretty good at scheduling these fun, offbeat comedies. (It’s also really good at cancelling them, I know.) Let’s hope this one has a chance to stretch its legs like Arrested Development did. I think it could evolve into a show I will actually watch.

I’ve gotten into bed with the Devil.

That’s right, folks, I’ve started outlining. Oh, that’s not what I started out doing—I was just having a casual little meeting with my study group—but the end result was a tidy outline of the first four weeks of Contracts, complete with the important points of each case.

Gah! When did I become that person? I had NO INTENTION of starting my outlining yet. We’re still in September! We’re still trying to figure out this whole scheme…right?

OK, I’m not really as aghast with myself as I make it sound. I started outlining because it felt right. Our little group managed to condense the remedies portion of the semester into five pages of outline. And it all makes sense.

If it weren’t clicking, this would be a very different post, seriously. This would be a post about how lost I felt during that meeting with the study group and how far behind I feel. It would be a post, probably, lubricated by a little rum. I’m not saying I have oodles of confidence, here—there were a few cases we slid right past because none of us could remember why we’d read them or whether we’d actually talked about them in class. There were some non-case digressions that we didn’t bother going over, because none of us really yet understand how they fit into the subject.

But for the most part, I feel good about what I’ve learned so far in Contracts.

Next week: probably Civ Pro. Prepare for a lot more angst.