Dexter

During the summer I feel in love with the show Dexter. You know, the one on Showtime about the serial killer? Michael C. Hall? Brilliant plot twists and funny in a serial killer kind of way? No? Yes?

Also during the summer, on June 11 to be exact, my home phone stopped working. I had no TV, no internet, nothing. I was crippled. After begging the lovely folks at Verizon for 2 months to come and fix it I finally told them to fuck off and moved to another provider. This was not as easy as it sounds because it took the new provider 4 missed appointments to actually show up. Honestly? I was beginning to feel like the powers that be did not want me to have cable or internet or a phone.

So anyway, the lovely cable man comes to install and he gives me the spiel about all the channels I'll have. Apparently HBO will be free for a month. I jokingly told him that I didn't really care about HBO because all I really wanted to do was lay in bed and watch Dexter (apparently Showtime is only free for the first 24 hours). I excused myself and let him finish the installation.

Well a full 2 weeks later I'm channel surfing when I come across Weeds on my TV. It took me a while to realize that Weeds is on Showtime. Ergo, I have Showtime. I checked the other TVs in the house and guess what? NO SHOWTIME. Showtime only plays in the bedroom. And why is that? Because I want to lay in bed and watch Dexter. And also because the powers that be do in fact want me to be happy.

Right then and there I vowed to marry that cable man if he ever crossed my path again (I don't think anyone realizes how little it takes to make me truly happy). Seriously, he went out of his way for me and it made me so happy. I then proceeded to call all my friends and give them the glorious news. And guess what happened after that? Showtime stopped working. The night before the season premiere of Dexter. Curses to the cable man and curses to the powers that be!

I suppose I could just make my life easy by paying for Showtime, but I am notoriously cheap. And these days you can download everything. And when that fails you can just watch it for free on YouTube.

What I am reading: The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
What I am listening to: Drivin' Me Wild - Common & Lily Allen. I like these folks individually, but I love them together