If NBC Cancels Chuck without a 3rd season

Things I will do if NBC Cancels Chuck:

• Kill Kittens
• Stop watching NBC for the rest of my Life.
• Kill More Kittens

I'm serious, this is the LAST time I get invested in a television show. ABC's done it twice to me this year, and this is the THIRD time in two years that NBC has done it to me. Y'all can suck it.

Whoever is in charge of making these decisions...I want their job. I would be so much better at it.

Canceling shows is a necessary evil for all TV shows. From M*A*S*H to ER, it happens eventually. Even Monday Night Football was canceled on ABC in order to move to it's sister network, ESPN.

However, if I was a network, I would be much more transparent with the whole process. Just because a show has ONLY 6.3 million weekly viewers, that doesn't mean that it only has 6.3 million fans. Most of the television I watch is online, and I would love to see more of the ratings system accommodate the millions of people that use recorded TV like Tivo, and online TV like Hulu.

I was reading an article the other day about ER and how "big" their finale wasn't. Who gives a crap if it ONLY had 15 million viewers. There's probably double that amount that watched it online sometime that week.

ugh.

What's wrong with me?

I don't understand it. I want to do well. I want to see myself do well. I want to try, and I want to excel, but for some reason, I can't focus.

I don't have that drive that....well, I guess I never really had it to begin with. The high school diploma is mostly because Mom was able to wake me up at 7am for four straight years. I took care of the rest, but I was there for the people, the friendships.

That's pretty much still the exact same, except my schedule is working against me. I'm floating in the gray area between no class time and not enough class time. Either way, I supposedly have to pick all of this up on my own...but it's my own fault for slacking off. $25,000 later, I've learned a valuable lesson.

If I'm going to be doing anything the next few years, I'm going to be doing it for me.

4-year-plan: to be on a revenue generating career path that I can stand going to 4-6 days a week. Whether it's with a non-profit organization, or a fortune 500 marketing firm, I want to find pleasure in what I do. I would also like to gain 15lbs of muscle and learn how to play the guitar. Oh! Almost forgot. I want to also learn CSS, and take some French in there at some point. Baby steps....baby steps. need the bachelors before I can attempt the masters...

I think the toughest part about everything I've been going through the past few years is that my lack of focus has translated into a lack of motivation. I didn't want to be an engineer...stuck in a cubicle all day doing something involving matrices and trig functions...

All my adult life, I've told myself that I spent too much time on the interweb. Maybe I could actually make a living off of it.

Online Television and New Media

I hate the TV ratings system. It hasn't accounted for variable change, nor has it been able to properly measure an accurate number of viewers since episodes started streaming on the internet OR episodes started getting tivo'd.

Shows are getting canceled that I only have the opportunity to watch online. Being in college, I take night classes Wednesdays and Thursdays...two HUGE nights for me in the TV realm (Lost, Life on Mars(not anymore), The Office, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock, and ER(not anymore)). All of these shows I watch online and view the fun Honda or Scrubbing Bubbles commercials every once and a while, but Networks are not including me in the statistics.

I know it's going to take a few years for the system to catch up to the internet, but still. Should the shows I watch now have to suffer becasue they aren't including me and millions of other viewers in their statistics?

The Shows I watch on a weekly basis ONLINE:
Monday: (Fox) House, 24, (ABC) Castle, (NBC) Chuck, Heroes, (CBS) How I Met Your Mother
Tuesday: (FX) Rescue Me
Wednesday: (ABC) Lost, Life on Mars/cancelled, Scrubs
Thursday:(NBC) The Office, ER/cancelled, 30 Rock, (ABC) Grey's Anatomy

I can't watch Television on time anymore. The internet offers myself and millions of others a chance to watch all of the programming they want...maybe because they're busy, maybe because they had stuff to do, and maybe because the other networks foolishly are going head to head with MY favorite shows. grrrrr.


Congrats on Ashton getting a million followers on Twitter. My turn soon. I think it's great that Ashton is supporting the Malaria No More foundation, and that Hugh Jackman is going to donate $100,000 to someone's favorite non-profit. It really shows the power of new media these days. If it was up to me, he'd be picking Dance Marathon (which he re-twitted), but every cause is a good cause.

School, College Humor, and The increase in Attendance on your Grades

Well,

It's nice to start things off fresh. Downloaded and deleted the old blog (so none of those potential employers can read about my angsty, non-eventful high school years)

I was going through the College Humor web celebrity archive, and I was very sad that they did not have the dancing hamsters. They had all of my other favorites, and a few good ones that weren't on there. Granted, I didn't see everything that I love from the web, but for a list of 40 URLs, they did a pretty damn job. (Follow the link to see them all: http://www.collegehumor.com/web-celeb-hall-of-fame )

This video gives me chills every time:
http://tinyurl.com/cjcp8y

So I'm in two classes that take attendance regularly. In no way does it ever affect your grade in a positive way, yet it is still taken. There are no attendance points, there are no participation points, there is only the cold, hard truth that if you don't come to class, the teacher can lower your grade.

Now, I have nothing against regular attendance if it has a direct relation with earnings, points, or some sort of salary. However, if someone feels they can do the work(which is on the University website), read the lectures (on the University website), and still do well on the tests, I don't see why it should be a requirement for them to sit through two hours of class and be disrespectful by not paying attention 100% of the time.

Here are two situations: Average Joe, Ill Issac, Cheating Carl, and Slacker Shawn are in the same class, which meet Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during the semester for sixteen weeks.

• Joe Goes to class every day, gets a B and A on his midterms, has trouble with the Final (C-), and gets a B- on his paper. Grade in Class: B-

• Issac got sick in the middle of the semester, missing two weeks of class before he finally got a doctor's note, and found out he had pneumonia. The note covered him for his sick days, but he suffered when his teacher made him take a midterm that he wasn't prepared for due to his illness. He also was deducted for turning in his paper late(while he was sick). Grade in Class: C+

• Carl doesn't care about class. He's good friends with a guy who's dating a girl in his same class, so she signs him in every class. She also copies him the homework, practically wrote his paper, and lets him cheat off of her tests. He went into the final with a 98% in the class and got a C- on it. Final Grade in Class: B

• Shawn doesn't go to class on Fridays because he's involved with the school's frisbee team and thinks it's a better use of his time (he's well aware that each hour not spent in class costs him roughly $87). He works very hard to study outside of class, and leads a He aces both tests, gets an A on his paper, and scores a 99% on his final. Unfortunately, he missed sixteen Fridays, and ends up with an %83 in the class. (B-)

The real questions:
Who would you want working for you?

and

Why is this policy in effect?


I have a lecture on Tues/Thurs with an old guy who owns/runs a trucking business. He's not a Teacher, Doctorate Student, Masters Student, Professor, etc.....he's a business owner teaching a business class....and he tells the same story at LEAST once a week. It's like being home on vacation...

My time is more valuable to me than to have to worry about that stupid story that isn't even a good metaphor for the model he's trying to teach.

@*(#&!@_*&#!
-Frost