Hulu, how could you!

I am appalled. Absolutely, completely, undeniably horrified. Really I am. Last night as I was lying in bed I realized that I hadn't written a post for that day. It's the first day that I have been in Maastricht that I haven't written to you. There's no excuse. But if there were an excuse... perhaps it'd go a little like this:

Here's the place where I write about having midterms this week and how I sat down at my desk at 1:30 yesterday and worked until dinner at 5:30 and then for another 30 minutes after dinner. All of this is true, but really mid terms consist of only one test which is tomorrow. It shouldn't be that difficult. The real excuse for me not writing yesterday- I was watching tv. Lame excuse, huh? I know, but after four hours reading and studying I needed to give my brain a chill, so I decided to stream some old episodes of one of my favorite tv shows from the web. Bad, bad, idea. Oh, it gets worse from there, for I haven't told you yet which show I was watching. Dare I even tell you now (you have no idea how many shade of red I'm turning just thinking of sharing my guilty pleasure.) All right, all right, I'm addicted to The Real Housewives of New York City!
For those of you who have never heard of it, you really don't need to. It's not educational, it's not romantic or funny, it's not a thriller or a crime show, and it certainly doesn't have a McDreamy anywhere in the cast list. In fact in the strata of television shows to watch it's pretty much at the bottom of the pile. But it's so much fun! It's the show that you work all day long so you have nothing to do when it comes on, and you then spend the next hour laughing at women yelling at each other for no good reason and saying to yourself, "at least I don't act like that." So anyway, I hadn't seen the last episode of the season so I watched it, then I wanted to watch the Reunion when they all get together and talk about what we on. Yea, there were three episodes of that, so essentially I watch four episodes of RHNYC. Sigh.

I haven't watched much tv since I've been over here, between studying, writing a blog, reading for fun, and working on GRE material I haven't had the time, but let me share with you what little I know about Dutch tv so far.

1. Be thankful it's in Dutch: Dutch isn't a very common language like German or French and for that reason most shows that aren't from the Netherlands aren't dubbed, they simply have subtitles. I can always find something in English over here, not so with other countries. One night I happened to turn on the tv in Austria (German Speaking) I found the Golden Girls on 3 channels and all three channels had it dubbed into German.

2. Rule #1 does not apply to Nickelodian and other children's shows: I got excited one morning to find some cartoon on television. I think it was The Little World of Richard Scary, a show I used to watch on NickJr. when I was a kid. I've also seen Hannah Montana around (which I have to admit I'm not completely opposed to, if I'm desperate). Ah but fair warning, even though these are American shows they're made for children, and children can't read therefore they're all dubbed into Dutch. Sad day.

3.The Dutch like to replay American shows that haven't been in Syndication within the last 20 years: Since I've been here, I've watched, Who's the Boss, Archie Bunker's Place, and Little House on the Prairie, but alas Grey's Anatomy and Glee are no where to be found.

4. There's always Animal Planet or Discovery Channel: but you can only watch Bear Grylls drink his own urine so many times.

5. Soccer is only slightly more interesting that watching water boil: added in reference to this I wish to state that I now consider professional soccer players to be the biggest babies I have ever seen. So the guy with the ball tripped you, WHAT ARE YOU ROLLING ON THE GRASS FOR?

Ok, so there it is five things you should know about Dutch television. Perhaps I've quenched my television thirst for a while.