Don't Panic on My Account, I've Only Gone and Gotten a Life...

Just wanted to let you know that if you don't see the usual babbling about the latest Farscape episode tonight, it doesn't mean I've been hit by a bus or something. (Which, face it, would probably be the most logical conclusion given my obsessive consistency in this matter.) I'm getting together with some friends for a barbeque tonight and quite possibly won't get to see this week's episode until tomorrow. And, believe me, I did have internal conflict over this. The sensible part of my brain which tells me "Get out from in front of the TV and have a social life, dammit!" was briefly at war with the obsessive-fan part, which is also quite paranoidly convinced that, if I'm not home to make sure, my cable will doubtless go out, and my VCR will mess up, and I'll probably miss the one episode that'd actually make this entire season make sense. But one of aforementioned friends has a satellite dish and a Tivo, and assures me that even if that happened, he'd be able to put it on a tape for me, so I gave in and said I'd go...