New season?

Megan: Aren't you excited about the new season?

Me: What new season?

Megan: Well, the new television season.

Me:  Is it starting?  I thought it started in like, mid-September.

Megan:  It IS September, Mom.  It starts tomorrow.

Me:  I guess it is.  It doesn't feel like September to me.  So it starts tomorrow?  Why did I not know that? I guess I can blame it on Dad.

Megan:  Why?  Because all he watches is NCIS reruns?

Me:  Exactly!

The reality is that the new season of television has not been on my radar for several years.  It used to be.  I loved it when the new seasons started - new characters, new story lines, updated hairstyles and wardrobes.  But I haven't really paid any attention lately.

Why?

Teaching at Ivy Tech means teaching night classes.  Over the ten years I have taught on every single night of the week except Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Not all at the same time, but at least one night class, sometimes two, each semester.  That ruins any semblance of following a show on a given night because the nights always changed when the semesters did.  By the time I would return home after a night class, it would be close to 10 and I was not ready to sit and watch a show. I was tired.

Plus we don't have DVR or whatever it is, and when we could tape shows, I never watched them.

Another thing......too much grading to do.  So Gary always has the remote, and I was grading papers.  Being in charge of the remote means flipping through many channels in the course of an evening rather than sitting and watching one complete program.

Who can resist reruns of NCIS (Gary's favorite), back to back episodes of Family Feud,  an occasional good movie - all are sometimes better  than the network shows.

But all that has changed!  No more night classes!  No more grading!  No more planning lessons in the evening!

So here we go!  Big Bang Theory is on the tv.  Penny's parents and brother have arrived for the formal wedding between Penny and Leonard.

This might start a new trend for me!