lost

as my blog slowly moves into a seldom-used keeper of random and mostly obscure thoughts, i decided i would write about the one television show i make a point of viewing: Lost. i will preface this post by declaring that i am long past the stage of trying to figure out what is going on. i have become purely an observer. i do not theorize, i do not make detailed charts and graphs about the show and i do not feel the pressure to do so. i will say this: it isn't pergatory. please stop telling me it is.

well, this week's episode was outstanding. this week was also the first week that i almost didn't get to see it.

i am working with reconstruct this summer http://reconstruct.org/ and this past week we had a group from seattle. i was staying with them at brentwood baptist. yeah, i slept in the church. it was a bit strange, especially walking to the shower with a towel, my little bathroom tote and flip flops. i felt a little like mr. belding when he and becky had fallen into a little rough patch and slater found him in the bathroom while mr. b was living at bayside.

the week was fantastic. but as it went on, i feared that i might not be able to watch lost. luckily the group went to a farm or something wednesday and didn't come back till after the show was over. that is most of them didn't come back until the show was over.

in the middle of the show, i got a call from one of the group's leaders telling me two of the guys were outside of the church and that i needed to let them in. so i waited until a commercial break and sprinted from dennis worley's office (a big thank you to mr. worley for letting me watch it in his office), to door 11 to let the kids in. i shook hands with their parents had them say their goodbye's and then made them sprint with me back to dennis' office.

we made it without missing a word of dialogue. but it turned out that they had never seen the show. so the next commercial break, i explained- in as much detail as was necessary- the entire plots of season 1, season 2 and got them current on season 3 with a little bit of character plots thrown in for good measure. i felt like the micro-machines guy explaining it.

this event really heightened my enjoyment of the episode not to mention the fact that there were so many answers given and the bonus of the last minute's punch to the gut.

truthfully, i wouldn't mind this show enjoying the type of run that friends or seinfielf or even the simpsons have enjoyed.