Have you all already gotten hooked on this Hulu thing? I'd been hearing about it and reading about it. Sometime way way back I think I had looked at it, but there weren't any shows that I was really interested in, or I was looking for something in particular and couldn't find it. I don't really remember, I just remember being somewhat disappointed and not going back. I really didn't get all the hype.

Then, back in December when I was making those slippers, I was looking for something to watch on the computer while Kevin played video games. I ended up at hulu and found that they had the entire series of... uhm.... I'm a bit embarrassed.... Doogie Howser, MD. Since the whole world has fallen in love again with Neil Patrick Harris (NPH!), I was excited to go back and see how he started. I remember watching Doogie when I was in middle school.

I watched an episode. Then another, and then another. Kevin came into the room after a few hours had passed without seeing me, and found that I was through most of the first season. Of course he laughed at me and mocked me... as he should... but I went on watching until those slippers were finished.

Since then, I've been avoiding the hulu because I don't want to get sucked into another Doogie marathon. The cutesy, corniness was grating after a few too many episodes, and besides NPH is so much hotter today than he was as a dorky teen doctor. So I mainly associated hulu with the place to watch Doogie Howser.

Yesterday all of this changed when again, Kevin's playing video games and I want to watch something while I knit. I just bought the 3rd season of Big Love, but unfortunately my laptop's DVD drive is at work. I went to hulu thinking that I'd try to find something other than Doogie. I just about screamed and did a happy dance when I found My So Called Life!!!!!

Angela!! Rayann!!! Ricky!!!! Dreamy Jordan Catalano!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm trying to pace myself since there are only 19 episodes, but I still have a lot of sweater to knit. But oh, the teen angst!! The teen problems!! The teen lust!!! As much as I loved 90210 as a teenager, I knew that my high school experience wouldn't be like that (Jersey is a lot colder and less beautiful than Beverly Hills), but My So Called Life seemed so real, so true, so possible. I was a goodie-goodie like Angela, but I never found my Rayann and Ricky (well, maybe the Ricky, but that's another story), and no Jordan Catalanos (at least not ones who ever paid attention to me as he did eventually to Angela).

Anyway, be wary of the hulu... it will suck you in and make you watch things that are embarrassing to admit to (Doogie) and things that you can't get enough of (MSCL).