I'm having a really hard time coming up with a title that's not too descriptive.

My life has been kind of sucky lately. Not like the love of my life died in a tragic hair dryer factory explosion kind of sucky, but it’s not been peachy.

I’ve been in a dark place as of late. For months it just seemed like nothing was going my way. *Worlds tiniest violin, playing just for you*.

But last month, the universe threw me a bone. Because God loves me, a routine surf through the channels turned into me realizing that Buffy The Vampire Slayer was airing from the pilot on Logo.

*The heaves open up, angelic music plays*

THANK YOU GOD!

I’d never seen it, but my favorite teacher/cool adult is a huge fan of it, and I am a fangirl to all things nerdy. It was on my things-to-do list. It was fate.

It’s been the only thing getting me through the particularly bad days at work. Question: have you ever tried to make an indignant 5 year old do addition? It’s not really fun.

Thank you, Buffy. Your ass kicking, smart mouth shenanigans brighten my dark days. Thank God for Joss Wedon. My love affair with Buffy is one for the ages.

But do you know what I hate? I hate, with an undying passion, when I come home, after staying unexpectedly late at work, and there is no new Buffy on the DVR.

WHY?! I understand nothing. Someone in my house has unrecorded the series. I physically cannot comprehend what kind of person does that sort of thing. Who unrecords Buffy?

When I come home at the end of a long day, I want my dinner on the table, and the kids presentable.

But in all seriousness…

And it would be another thing if it were a show like Medium, or Greys Anatomy (Also favorites) and the shows were only loosely connected to each other, but Buffy is an episodic metanarrative. You miss an episode, you’re out of it. Sorry buddy, good luck trying to figure out what the hell is going on next episode.

The good news is that, because God loves me, Logo airs each episode twice. So at 11 I got to watch it, but still.

You’re exhausted, you’re emotionally drained and all you want to do is watch a good dusting. I cannot be alone.