a post of truly awe-inspiring mediocrity

Classes are over, two of my roommates have gone to Florida for the Easter break, I did all the dishes left over from their popcorn extravaganza last night, and I'm still wondering why the counter's sticky. Eh. I should go check if Mail Ops has flat-rate boxes. Also, I think Bruff's closed for the Easter weekend.

On the other hand, I did start watching Boardwalk Empire, and as of the first episode, I do like it. (This is going to come as a surprise to exactly no one, but I like gangsters.)

Two more weeks and I get to go home.

ETA: Roommate ruins my breakfast plans by starting to deep-clean the kitchen WHILE I'M IN IT. And refuses to wait twenty minutes for me to finish baking, because she has "other things to do." Gee, honey, so do I.

isurrendered has returned!

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (post-apocalyptic scifi-fi drama, fantasy, noir gumshoe pulp, criminal procedure...IN SPACE, historical drama WITH WEREWOLVES, etc.).
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios, and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.

whynot gave me "Time travelers from the future break their time machine in the past and are stranded." AND HERE WE GO.

VESUVIUS

Pompeii, 2032

Graduate student Emilia Sato is herding a group of undergrads around Pompeii as part of a summer program pioneered by her home university in the States: using cutting-edge technology, historians and archaeologists will be able to look back into the past, to see the world as it once was. It's not time-travel, but it's close. Only this time, something goes wrong. When the wreckage clears, Emilia finds herself lost in Pompeii, but instead of the strictly-ordered tourist trap she expects, she finds herself and her students in the Pompeii of AD 62, just after the earthquake that devastated her city. It should be a classicist's dream, but Emilia just wants to get all her students home, preferably in one piece.

( In this Campanian earthquake, some peculiar things are said to have occurred -- Seneca the Younger )

ETA: I have to add the only line of dialogue I know from this, because I think it's more funny than it probably is.

QUINTUS: "Are they (the undergrads) your slaves?"
EMILIA: "Yeah, something like that."

ETA2: Obviously the tagline is "They just became history."