My sleep schedule is ten kinds of screwed up right now. Due to being sick and not sleeping correctly, I’ve noticed that my body has switched to a kind of graveyard schedule. The past three days, I’ve been going to sleep around 8am and waking up around 4 or 5 in the evening. I see the morning sun, but it’s odds on whether I see it set. The problem with this is that I can’t seem to wake up in time to call people about jobs, but then again, I can’t go on interviews coughing up phlegm and sniffling, either.

However, illness doesn’t bar me from taking my finals, which began yesterday. I only have my nine o’clock to go to, so this morning, I will be seated within my desk and making sure I get most of my Japanese final correct. I’m going to get a B, no problem, and just to be sure, I’ve spent all night studying for it. Not that I’m worried about it at all, but I want that solid B, and not have it slip to a C. If I get a C, it’ll look bad on my transcript and I can’t retake any class where I get a “Satisfactory” passing grade. Technically a D is passing, but it’s below average. I need B’s and A’s, not C’s and D’s.

Wish me luck.

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I used to watch this show when I was a kid, and even more recently, they’ve been playing some those original episodes on SciFi. SciFi Channel produced a two-part four hour miniseries that gives the old ship a new look. Not to mention an entirely different twist on an old concept, which many many fans were very skeptical about.

We’ve gone through this before with Star Trek, when TNG was about to premeire, all the fans were pretty skeptical about this new crew. They wanted their old pals Kirk and Spock, and instead they got Picard and Riker. In the end, TNG won over the audience and even to this day is considered by many to be the best of the incarnations (even though I think they’re wrong and DS9 was the best). Battlestar Galactica’s reincarnation ruled all. Okay, so Starbuck and Boomer are girls, and Apollo is played by Jamie Bamber (the late Fourth Lieutenant Kennedy from the Horatio Hornblower saga) instead of Robert Hatch, but even so… comparing this new series to the old one just isn’t fair on so many levels.

For one thing, Edward James Olmos blows Lorne Greene out of the fucking water in acting and style. I mean, Lorne Greene’s Commander Adama was this swashbuckling kind of guy, as I recall, but Olmos quiet authority is more like what I expect in a ship commander than acting like a cowboy. While we’re on the subject of Commander Adama… why is he a Commander? They really fucked the rank system over in this show. It goes: Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lt. Colonel, Colonel, then Commander. What the fuck? Anyway, still have to hand it to Olmos for really raising the bar on acting. If he played a Picard-like character in Star Trek, he definitely would have given Patrick Stewart a run for his money. Hell, we’ve never seen a Hispanic actor in a lead role on a science-fiction show before. We’ve had white people and black people, but never a brownie. Way to go on the enthic diversity test, there. I really liked the feel of the officers and crew, and hey, we actually see enlisteds and non-comms in major roles en masse, rather than the token Chief O’Brien.

I hope they make this into a series, because I’d never miss an episode. Post your own reviews below

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Being sick does indeed suck shit, especially when I have finals next week. When you have other people in the household who’re also sick, and even more so when you share a bed with one of them, it makes avoiding getting sick that much difficult. Though I had fought it off for a good three and a half weeks, the next day, my head hurt, and my throat was scratchy. Yesterday, I started coughing pretty hard as the phlegm threatened my lungs.

Finals notwithstanding, this also means I can’t go on any interviews. Which blows since I’m like on the last month I can afford rent. That’s right, I’m on my last three hundred bucks, which is pretty much going to have to go toward paying the power bill or groceries. It’s not a good thing.

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