Live Blog | The Carrie Diaries S1E4 through S1E5 (SPOILERS!!!)

(note: I do not condone any of the immorality in the show, nor any immorality in general.)

The Carrie Diaries:

S1E4: "Fright Night"

Carrie has a hard time avoiding Sebastian at school. She goes with Walt to LaRissa's party, and they both meet a guy (who turns out to be gay & kisses Walt). Maggie and Mouse go to Sebastian's party; Mouse doesn't want to at first, but Mags wants to have fun, she uses the excuse: "We can get back at him by drinking all his booze!" Mouse starts playing a game & Sebastian comes along and challenges them, and they start talking and smoking a joint, until a cop walks in (the guy Maggie's getting involved with behind Walt's back). After the kiss, Walt totally freaks out & shouts that's he's not gay & he's not a "f*g". He runs away, and he finds some guys about to beat up some gay guys & he saves them. The guy told Carrie, who had to help (more like take care of) LaRissa who had gotten so high that she almost jumped off a building. Doret gives her dad an especially hard time during Halloween (an occult holiday), including eating all the candy and practically telling him to shut up while watching "Poltergeist". He feels defeated, not being able to get through to her. But later, she can't sleep, because she's scared, so she asks if they can hang out, and later you see that she fell asleep with her head in her dad's lap (aww)! Maggie tries to "seduce" the cop, but he refuses her, because her father is the chief and "no one can find out" about them. Ugh! disgusting. Mouse starts really enjoying hanging with Sebastian. NO! Carrie goes home and finds Sebastian with Mouse at her house; she was so stoned that he just couldn't take her to her parent's house, so she ends up staying the night. Walt goes to see Maggie, and he ends up kissing her and "making love" to her. Carrie is officially cool with Sebastian again, and Mouse can't shut up about inappropriate things. (Ugh!) Carrie realizes during this episode, that even though she wanted the city life to feel free and not have to take care of anyone, she still had to; look at LaRissa. She had to take care of her while she's stoned out of her wits. LaRissa reveals that it's a lonely life, the city/party life. They talk about the quote "Each man is an island"; and LaRissa says she doesn't want to be an island anymore, it's too lonely and tiring having to keep up with the other "islands". She just wanted to be a bird and fly away.

S1E5: "Dangerous Territory":

Carries meets a guy, George Silver (who looks like Sam from Supernatural, by the way), at her internship. He mentions that they knew each other when they were kids. He asks her to his mom's New Year's party, but she says no; when she tells her friends, they tell her she's crazy for turning him down! She says she's too busy (as an excuse), but they knew (We ALL knew!) that it was really Sebastian. Maggie talks about how Walt "can't get enough sex with her" (TMI!). Mouse & Seth plan a get-together. Carrie takes her driving test. She sees Sebastian and le biatch (Donna) making out & almost crashes. Le biatch accuses Carrie of trying to "run then over". Sebastian says he didn't want Carrie to find out like this, but she said it was totally cool because she's "seeing" George. Tom Bradshaw's wedding ring is stolen. Carrie accepts the invite from George. Barbara helps Carrie find a "Sapphire" dress, and tells her about the whole dress & party code for "Kick Silver" (George's mom). She's known George since he was 4. Barbara actually appears to like Carrie; she was surprised that Carrie was actually a hard worker. George's ex-girlfriend, Blithe (le biatch #2) shows up. She tries to put Carrie on blast, but it doesn't work. They think it's stupid at first that she's learning to drive a car, but George thought it was fascinating and asked her to teach him sometime. Mouse tries to learn how to have "great sex" to impress Seth, and asks Walt for advice, he shows her a video. Mr. Bradshaw almost hits a girl and then drives her home. (Stupid) Donna tries to steal the diner as a hangout spot from Carrie & the girls. Mags keeps trying to get it back, by using all kinds of tricks. Mouse finds out that Seth had sex with 2 different people while they were broken up. Sebastian walks in on Maggie and Donna arguing about the diner. He gets Donna to give up the diner. Mouse lets Seth think that she slept with someone else, because he assumed it, and he's overcome with jealousy & forced a name out of her, and she names Walt, because technically he DID teach her all that. Kick Silver realizes who Carrie is, Grace Bradshaw's daughter, and they talk about her mom. Mrs. Silver totally realizes that she misjudged Carrie. Seth and Mouse run into Walt and Maggie.. Seth almost beats Walt up, until Mouse clears up the misunderstandings, and admit that she watched a how-to tape with Walt, who thinks Maggie would think he was a loser if she found out, but she thought it was sweet that he wanted to impress her. Mouse tells Seth that she's not cool with the double standard of: if he sleeps with a ton of girls, to him, that makes him "cool", but if she does the same thing, that makes her a "slut". (Either way is wrong. These people clearly just don't care about the concept of waiting for marriage.) They work it out, and everything ends "well".

Live Blog | The Carrie Diaries S1E1 through S1E3 (SPOILERS!!!)

(note: I do not condone any of the immorality in the show, nor any immorality in general.)

The Carrie Diaries: 

S1E1: "Pilot"

Carrie starts junior year at high school after a family tragedy: losing her mother to cancer, and feels watched by everyone, which leaves her feeling a bit self-conscious on her first day. She and her sister, Doret's relationship are struggling. Doret stole a purse that their mother had given to Carrie, which turns out to be ruined, so Carrie has to get creative to fix it. Carrie gets some exciting news: an opportunity to intern in Manhattan, NY! She meets a woman named LaRissa who absolutely loves her bag and wants to "shoot" it (photograph it with models). LaRissa gifts Carrie with a fabulous dress, and she parties with her new friend after her interning job, drinking champagne and meeting the first gay couple that she's ever met, who drop a hint that at least one person she has met is probably gay, but doesn't know it yet. It turns out to be more true than she imagined. She doesn't tell the whole truth about her age or that she's in high school. She shows up late and her sister is missing, but she comes home the next day a bit hung over. Carrie cracks and says she can't deal with worrying about her sister and having to be the mature one all the time anymore. She is grounded for 2 weeks for being an hour late past curfew. Mouse's boyfriend is ignoring her, while Mag's boyfriend won't have sex with her because he is still trying to figure out his sexual identity. Mags is being unfaithful and cheating on him with a deputy from her father's work; her father is the chief of the police department. Mouse's college boyfriend, Seth, is ignoring her.

S1E2: "Lie With Me"

Carrie and Sebastian start hanging out more and keeping getting interrupted before they can kiss. Carrie and Doret start getting along better, an even having fun together. Carrie brings her purse to the shoot, but has to sneak off from her b*tchy bosses watchful eye, and has to lie to do so. She gets back to the office late and has to sacrifice her new Dior scarf that LaRissa gave her, just to get herself out of hot water. Walt reveals he's not in love with Mags. It made me cry. Carrie's dad banned her from hanging out with Sebastian after catching them kissing. Carrie's dad meets a woman at the store when trying to find tampons for Carrie. Carrie later finds out that Sebastian is a client of her dad's. Walt breaks up with Maggie (Mags).

S1E3: "Read Before Use"

Mouse has a "date" with Seth in Manhattan, and Maggie tells her to act a certain way, so he'll "stay interested", but she just wants to do something casual, like get ice cream. Carrie reads her dad's file on Sebastian and finds out that Sebastian has a history. He got kicked out of his last school for messing around with his art history teacher. Doret steals a hamster, names it Morrissey, and later it gets lost. Carrie hangs out with Sebastian, and they kiss some more, and she says "wow! where did you learn to kiss like that" and he replies "I had a good teacher." To which she suddenly "has to go" and runs off with her friend Mouse to Manhattan and goes to an art exhibit with LaRissa. The art exhibit turns out to just be an ex-porn star opening her legs and "reclaiming her vagina", or showing it to the world. Mouse runs off out of embarrassment, but Carrie sees and it looks normal to her. The woman says Carrie reminds her of herself and tell her not to let a man make decisions for her, but then tells her to show them her vagina.. So weird. Carrie's father, Tom Bradshaw, gets pushed into the dating scene, and keeps getting phone numbers. Mag's destroys "Bear-Bear" the bear that Walt won for her. LaRissa judges Carrie for not "owning her power" and not making something of herself, but Carrie explains that maybe her friend thinks it's a good idea, maybe the porn star does, too, but she doesn't, and that's her owning her power. LaRissa says she has a point, and they say goodbye. Mags shows up to see Carrie, but ends up asking Doret for help fixing Bear-Bear. Doret fixes him while Mags searches for le hamster, Morrissey. Carrie gets in trouble when she admits she went through her dad's files. Mr. Bradshaw finds Morissey and decides Doret can keep him. Carrie tells Sebastian that she knows, and he freaks out because he didn't even know he had a lawyer. He says it's not going to work between them because of the snooping and suspicions and complicatedness. He leaves and doesn't want to see her again. Mr. Bradshaw takes the girls to the pet shop to buy Morrissey some things, like a cage and food, etc. and he finds out that Doret stole him, and so he talks to shop keeper and ends up finally paying for him.

Live Blog | Sex And The City S6E5 through S6E8

(note: I do not condone the immorality in the show, nor immorality in general.)

Season 6, Episode 5, "Lights, Camera, Relationship": Carrie gets a big check for her book, which upsets Berger (so he's pretty much jealous) because his book deal fell through (because his book probably wreaked). Miranda helps Steve bake cupcakes for his new girlfriend, Debbie. Charlotte is reluctant to start dating now that Harry is out of the picture, but the Jewish mothers and grandmothers keep pushing men at her, and she doesn't want to be rude, so she accepts to meet them. She goes to a single's gathering and sees Harry, they talk and she asks if it's okay if he can maybe call her sometimes, and he gets down on one knee and proposes to her. Samantha takes over the PR for Jerry's struggling (disgusting) play.

Season 6, Episode 6, "Hop, Skip, and a Week": Carrie and Berger are having some problems, and he decides he wants to take a break from their relationship for a week as he goes out of town, to her great dismay. Miranda has to cut hours at work so that she can spend more time with Brady, as she already has a nanny for him and barely gets to spend time with him anymore as she comes home so late; she has showed up late to the office 3 times and they are being hard on her, but she reminds them that when her mother died, she was back in the office on Monday. Women from the synagogue keep trying to hook Charlotte up with their sons or grandsons, and she's reluctant to date as she's still in love with Harry. Samantha tells Jerry that he needs to change his name, because "Jerry Jarrod" is no name for a star. She changes his name to Jerry Smith, and gets him on a billboard in time square as a perfume poster model, the ad is disgusting.

Season 6, Episode 7, "The Post-It Always Sticks Twice": After Berger breaks up with Carrie (on a post-it note, she's very upset; Charlotte tries to reassure Carrie that "everything happens for a reason". She tries to get over it by partying it up, and she goes to a club opening at a place called "Bed" with her friends. Miranda doesn't want to go at first because she's not feeling so great, until she tried on her old skinny jeans... She tries them on, and is surprised when she fits in them, and acts inappropriately throughout the entire night. She gets pushed onto a bed next to some guy, and ends up having a slightly racy conversation with him; and when they go to "bed", Carrie sees some of Berger's friends, and decides to go talk to them and act casual, but instead she ends up taking out her confusion and frustration by yelling at them about how breaking up on a post-it is NOT acceptable, and how men should just do the right thing and have the "uncomfortable breakup talk". The girls get some weed at a bar, and Samantha almost gets into a fight with a ghetto chick: the chick's man tries to hit on her and she basically tells him to get bent, but when she's watching Jerry on TV, and he says he's not seeing anyone special, she feels hurt, even though she told him to say that, so she says what the hell and kisses the guy that was hitting on her, his girlfriend sees and gets pissed, and she and friends are about to beat her up. Carrie ends up getting a ticket for smoking weed in public. The girls call it a night and get ice cream and have girl talk. More "it happens for a reason" talk ensues.

Season 6, Episode 8, "The Catch": Carrie tries out a trapeze for an article piece and chickens out when it's time to do a "catch". Charlotte and Harry take photos in Central Park for the New York Times. Miranda thinks the shirt Debbie got for Brady (her baby) is tacky. Steve gives Miranda a candle that Debbie bought for her for "Serenity and Calm". Jerry is heading to Mexico for a week, and although Samantha is fine with that, she ends up struggling without him around as she got so used to his help. The girls go out to lunch and Harry drops by and tries to hook up Carrie with one of his friends, Howie. Charlotte's picture is accepted into the New York Times, Steve and Debbie drop by Miranda's house and she stoops to hiding under the bed to avoid them. The girls go to Charlotte's rehearsal dinner. Carrie runs into Harry's friend at the rehearsal dinner, and they end up hooking up (or in his eyes: "making love". She relates it to "Jack Rabbit sex".) Carrie ended up with a sore neck. Charlotte sees her picture in the paper, and she has an ink stain above her lip which makes it look like she has a "hitler moustache". Carrie and Harry's friend have a conversation, and she says she thought the hook-up was just a one-time thing, just for fun, and he gets upset and says if he'd have known she was just using him, he wouldn't have "made love" to her like that. Charlotte's wedding is nearly a disaster, but Carrie cheers her up and makes her realize that her high standards for the wedding were making her miss the whole event because she was spending more time focusing on materialistic things instead of the actual experience. First, Harry spills the wedding wine on Charlotte's dress, then Samantha's bracelet breaks on the small stage, Harry has a hard time breaking the glass, and then Charlotte nearly slips on the beads from Samantha's broken bracelet. Harry's friend calls Carrie out in a wedding toast. Miranda is giving a speech for Charlotte, and the paper catches fire. Charlotte and Harry are carried around in the chairs and she is scared at first, until Harry reassures her: "what's the worst that could happen? You'll end up living happily ever after?" (He says because she told him what Carrie said about 'maybe the worse the wedding, the better the marriage', so they keep referencing it as an inside joke.) Charlotte throws the bouquet, and it hits Miranda.

Live Blog | Sex and the City Marathon S6E3 through S6E4

(note: I do not condone any of the immorality in the show, nor any immorality in general.)

Sex and the City, S6E3, "The Perfect Present":

I'm surprised at how much I'm actually really getting into this show. Charlotte is taking Jewish classes and must learn about the history and tradition. She got excited over saying "Oi!" for the first time. Samantha gets caught "shagging" the waiter again, but at so-and-so's purse party. Steve is still seeing his new girl, "Debbie", and Miranda is still in denial of her feelings. Carrie is woken up by a phone call from "Big" who wants to talk about her red Gucci dress.. And they end up having phone sex, even though she's dating Berger. Miranda finds a ton of condoms in her baby bag and realizes they belong to Steve. Carrie questions how much past relationships can change your future idea of perfect. Carrie visits Berger's apartment, and overhears a phone message for Berger, and sees him overreact and exclaim "Screw you!" to the answering machine while simultaneously flipping it off. I think I actually really enjoy the parts of the show where Carrie's blogging and talking about her philosophy about relationships. (Also, a question: has anyone reading this seen the movies?! I haven't, but now I really want to! I probably will today!) Steve shows up (on time, for once) and Miranda lets him have it, and argues with him about how he always needs to have his attention on the baby, she doesn't want him slacking as a father, so to say; she confronts him about the condoms. Charlotte sacrifices pieces of her past. She decorates a Christmas tree in July, and is very sentimental about it being her 'last Christmas tree', although Harry insists she can keep Christmas, and that a lot of Jews have Christmas trees. But she insists on doing it right, and uses the metaphor: "I'm not going to be a meat-eating vegetarian." Which completely makes sense. They mutually decide that they will keep her Grandmother York's vintage ornament though, as it's a special family heirloom. Samantha hooks up with the waiter, Jerry, again, and discovers that he's also an actor, which turns out to have it's benefits. Carrie talks to Berger about that Lauren girl, who happens to be his ex, and Carrie finds out Lauren keeps bugging him because she wants to meet him at lunch for closure; even though SHE was the one that cheated, forcing him to break up with her! She gives him a new sleep sounds machine because the sound of frogs at night was keeping her awake. Charlotte is baptized.

S6E4, Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little:

Samantha is bragging about her "sex life", now that she's been role-playing with the waiter/actor, where he shouts "shut the hell up" a LOT. Miranda talks about her date with someone, who didn't come up to her room but said he'd call, and Berger elaborates on how that meant he's just not that into her. "If we're into you, we're coming upstairs. We're booking that second date. There's no mixed messages." Jack Berger and Carrie confess that they love each other! Berger gifts her with his book. More hook-ups between Samantha and waiter Jerry Smith. Moving on. Carrie finishes Berger's book in two days, and they talk about it. They have a mock argument about him having his leading lady wearing a 'scrunchie' all over town. No self-respecting New Yorker woman who works at W magazine would go out wearing a scrunchie, she exclaims, and she offends Berger with this comment about his novel. Carrie questions how nitpicking and criticism can ruin a relationship on her blog. Miranda and Carrie are trying to help Charlotte cook a traditional Jewish Shabbat meal together. Samantha is losing interest in Jerry, and doesn't like knowing more about him because it "ruins the fantasy", but they end up "playing themselves" and just having a real conversation over dinner, without any strain or tension, surprisingly. Berger points out a woman wearing a scrunchie, and Carrie points out that she's not from New York. Harry and Charlotte get into a big fight, after she made a huge special Shabbat dinner for him, and he is watching baseball on mute during the dinner; when she noticed, she tells him to turn it off. "I gave up Christ for you, can't you give up the Metz for me?!" And it all gets blown out of proportion when she yells at him to set the date, to which he tells her she's acting crazy. She mentions how lucky she is to have him, and asks if he knows what people think when they see them together, and he says he does, he just didn't think she was one of them, to which he leaves and says "To think I bought a ring." Berger refuses to go up with Carrie to her apartment and says he'll call her tomorrow (remember earlier how he said that means a guy's not into someone?!) they argue a bit, but then they kiss and make up, and go back up to her apartment. Charlotte and Harry seem to be breaking up, because he hasn't talked to her in 2 days except to say he's sending someone to pick up his TV.

Summary of American McGee's Alice Video Game (Spoiler Content: Low to None)

I first heard of American McGee's Alice in 2012. I have never played the game (I'm really looking forward to it though! Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on it soon!), but I have watched a lot of walkthroughs of the game, so I know what happens. I personally love the game and would give it an A+ rating; it's exciting, action-filled, mysterious, and oh-so-thrilling and twisted! Rest assured, I won't be posting any spoilers, just the information you'd get in the beginning of the game in the cutscenes.

American McGee's Alice is a third-person psychological horror action video game based on the old stories of Alice Liddel and Wonderland, such as: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Alice, Through the Looking Glass; and What Alice Found There, originally written by Lewis Carroll, only more macabre. In this story, our heroine is years older and much more cynical. It is nowhere near a children's story. As I said before, it is a horror game (I'd say it's more creepy than full out scary, but sometimes that's even worse!) Alice has been put into Rutledge Asylum, due to the fact that she is mentally unstable. At the age of 7, Alice witnessed her family (her parents and older sister, Lizzie Liddel) had died in a suspicious fire. She becomes withdrawn, probably due to survivor's guilt. 10 years after losing her family, she is called back to Wonderland, which has become corrupted because it has come into the rule of the Queen of Hearts, and she must fight to regain her sanity and to save the people of Wonderland. The other characters are also based on the familiar characters in the stories, and definitely has a lot of similarities, but they are much more warped and twisted; not all of them are bad, though. Some are trying to genuinely help her, while some are trying to drag her down, and some are just merely metaphors of her own feelings, which have become twisted due to her unhappiness. On her journey, she is accompanied by the infamous Cheshire Cat who appears at times to offer advice and cryptic comments.

There have been plans to have a film adaption for many years, starting in December 2000. Wes Craven (Scream; Nightmare on Elm St.; Friday the 13th; etc.) had signed on to help in the film adaption, and Sara Michelle Gellar (Scooby-Doo movie; Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a self-proclaimed fan of the game, was also to be a part of it, but the crew kept running into too many problems and finally quit. In 2013, American McGee was able to buy back the film rights, and in February 2014, plans were resumed to adapt the game to film. It is currently on another halt, as McGee still needs to raise the rest of the required funding ($400,000) to develop the film adaption.

There is also a sequel to American McGee's Alice, called Alice: Madness Returns, which is just as mysterious, cryptic, and thrilling, but we will talk about that in another post! Thank you for reading!

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Live Blog | Sex and the City Marathon S5E7 through S6E2

(note: I do not condone any of the immorality in the show, nor any immorality in general.)

So, I started watching Sex and the City a few months ago, maybe in March. I was bored, it was on, and I was curious. I ended up watching a 4-8 hour marathon. It's on again today, so I decided to watch it as I can't sleep! so I'm going to live blog it!

**Spoilers!**

So in the first episode I watched today, Season 5, episode 7, "The Big Journey": The brunette woman, Charlotte York, is "seduced" by Harry, a man she at first finds physically repulsive, into hooking up with him. Carrie goes to San Francisco by train to promote her book, 'Sex and the City" at a book reading, where it turns out she's simply opening for a famous dog, Mr. Winkle, and where she runs into "Mr. Big". She tries to hook up with him and even convinces Samantha to stay in a different hotel room so that Carrie can, but he was playing hard to get, so they just went to dinner, and he told her how he read her book cover to cover and realized just how much he hurt her. She tried to cover up her feelings and use the excuse: oh, that's not true; I was just embellishing. He ended up sleeping in her hotel room, he fell asleep reading her book.. Again.

The next episode, Season 5, episode 8, "I love a charade": Charlotte confessed to the group that she wasn't into the bald guy that "seduced" her, but the sex was good. She was embarrassed to be seen with him, and it was like "The Bachelorette and the Beast." She told him straight up that it wasn't a relationship and they weren't a couple, that it was "just sex" to her. Samantha threw a pool party with her friends at the Hampton mansion that she shares with her ex-husband, Richard Wright; one weekend she gets the mansion, the other weekend he gets it. And a bunch of young hussies show up and crash her party. At the end, Charlotte realizes that she may be falling for the guy she's been hooking up with, and he reveals he can't marry her, because he's Jewish and can only marry a Jewish woman, because it's tradition. Miranda has been hanging around the father of her baby, though I don't think they ever really had a relationship or were ever in love before, and she starts to develop feelings for him. Carrie is seeing a man named Jack Berger; he randomly ditched her at Samantha's party, but redeemed himself in her eyes later (at the wedding). The girls attend the wedding of a great socialite and lounge singer (played by Nathan Lane) who is being wedded to a rich woman, but they are confused as they thought he was gay. Carrie realizes the cycles of dating, where "some people are settling down, some are settling for less, and some people just refuse to settle for anything less than the standards they pre-set for their relationships".

In the third episode that I'm watching, which is Season 6, episode 1, "To market, to market": Miranda realizes she's in love with the father of her baby, and currently on a first date with him, only he just broke it to her that he's seeing a new girl. Samantha gets involved with a 'young guy' who is a stockbroker who gives her insider tips while they hook up, and later he gets arrested. Carrie runs into ex, Aidan, who turns out to have a baby, Tate, and has a wife who is a furniture designer. Carrie is still seeing Berger.

Season 6, episode 2, "Great Sexpectations": the next episode just started. Carrie is seeing Berger again. She's with the group telling them about her first time with Berger. They have great communication and they get along so well, but she thinks that their sexual chemistry is horrible. Samantha checks out a waiter; they're probably going to hook up. Charlotte has news; she's going Jewish. Miranda is in denial about her how hurt she is, so she plans to spend a lot of time with her so-called new 'boyfriend', TiVo, but she's inconsolable when, sadly, all of her programs are deleted when her mother sits on the remote. Charlotte keeps trying to talk to the Rabbi about becoming Jewish, only to be ignored and have the door shut in her face multiple times. She consults Harry, and he tells her it's just "the game they play". They turn you down at least 3 times to see if you're really serious about it. Carrie hooks up with Jack Berger again, and she still thinks it was bad. She talks to Samantha, who tells her to never mention that the sex is bad, because that's just a downer, and that she should just "get drunk and buy lingerie and spice things up". Charlotte shows up at the Rabbi's house with Kosher wine as a gift, and he still shuts the door in her face. She knocks again and his wife answers to say that her husband can't see her, but she barges in to talk to him, and says she doesn't have time for the games, she's 27 and in love with a Jewish man, which took her 20 years to find. Carrie goes on a date with Berger, they get drunk and go home, and before they even hook up, she makes a bit of a fool of herself. Samantha is at the raw food restaurant to "seduce" the waiter, when she realizes that all the other girls there are "competing" for him. Finally, it's just her and one other woman, whom she finally confronts and says something along the lines of: "you don't know who you're dealing with. I'm going home with him, and you're going home with key lime custard. Give up, and I'll pay for your dinner." For a second, the other woman looked like she was going to put up a fight, but she said "okay", and they got the check, and Samantha went home with the waiter, and they hooked up. Berger and Carrie finally have "the talk" about their sexual chemistry, and realize they're just overthinking it, and it's just because of nerves. "We should be smoking, not choking." Jack Berger says. After talking it out, they have premarital intercourse.

Coping With Bangs That You Hate (Until They Finally Grow Out)

So the other day, I made the most ridiculous decision to give myself 'straight bangs', even though straight bangs are something that I've never liked on myself. I didn't exactly 'instantly regret it'. It took almost an hour to kick in, and now I can't stop brainstorming ways to make it work, to hide it, and to make it grow faster. My hair grows about an inch a month, so in a month I should be able to pass them off as cute side bangs, but for now, they look a little silly when pushed to the side, because they're cut a little too thick to be side bangs. Here are some of my survival tips that might help you, too!

1: Just Rock It!
No matter how silly you feel, and no matter how doubtful you are about people's sincerity when they say it's cute, and even if you think your face suddenly looks 'fatter', just rock it. You wanted this, so keep that in mind. Try to take as many flattering photos as you can (that will definitely make you feel better about the change), and experiment with all the cute hairstyles you wanted to try (I curled my bangs under pinup-style and did victory rolls. Tres fun). This will make it more fun, and in the end when it's all grown out, at least you'll be able to say you did all that and you finally got it all out of your system so that you'll never feel the urge to do it again!

2: Do The Twist!
Twist your bangs off to the side and bobby-pin them there! Voila! You have a forehead again!
(Something I dearly miss, and now I realize that I took my poor forehead for granted! Boo!)

3: Headbangin' Bands!
Wait, so are we going to a concert?! NO! I'm talking about headbands! Now's the time for some retail therapy, so you need to pamper yourself and go out and splurge (or not...) on some cute accessories to help you survive this hair tragedy (if it's really that bad..)! Use a bit of pomade to help slick it back, and then add the headband! No biggie!

4: Redo!
If it's really as bad as you think, go talk to a hairstylist and see if there's another more bearable style of bangs that you could live with, such as side bangs. If you don't want to do that, you could also opt for a wig.

5: Fake It 'Til You Make It!
This is also one that I've been doing. Try to pass them off as side bangs as best as you can. Mine
are just a touch above my brows, and they're a little thick, but if I style them carefully with some hairspray, I can pass them off as Audrey Hepburn-esque side bangs (although quite a bit longer).

6: Growing Tips
Twist the bangs together to the side tightly (but not to the point where it hurts) and put them in a small ponytail at night, because the pull of the tight ponytail will help it grow faster. You can also leave over the twist and just put it in a ponytail, although that might look a little silly.. but whatever! You're going to bed! Who's gonna see?! (Maybe just your teddy bear...or your mom or dad... or your husband.. oops!) I know this might seem weird, but dye your hair if you want. My hair always seems to grow almost a week or two after I dye it, and my roots start showing! (Don't do this just to make it grow, as you might end up damaging it instead if you don't know what you're doing!!! I cannot stress that enough!!!) Try using special strengthening shampoos and conditioners, and leave-in conditioning products. Try some hair treatments, the warm olive oil treatment.

I hope this gives you ladies (and maybe even a few gents) some hope! I'm off to play with hairstyles!