Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle on CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, is leaving the show! Tonight was her final appearance! Apparently this is old hat, and had I been paying any attention to the Internets, I would have know this since August. Still, it is quite disappointing.

I have discovered the secret of high blog traffic! Since I posted about this week’s episode of House, M.D., my hits have quadrupled. Apparently, many people want to know about the phrase written on the chalk­board behind House in the classroom where he grilled his 40 or so candi­dates: Tesla was Robbed! The phrase appears alone on the board early in the episode. But later in the episode, House writes the following above it: SYNRBCTACHPANIC for synes­thesia, red blood count, tachy­cardia and panic attacks. These latter are part of House’s diag­nostic procedure. He’s using the chalk­board instead of the old white­board [ . . . ]

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I’m quite busy. I have three large papers due in the next 7 days. So posts this week are likely to be on the rather fluffy side. Like this: I used to watch this show when I was very young. The theme has been stuck in my head ever since. It would pop up, usually in the shower, from time to time, and I couldn’t place it. Then I stumbled on this. It was truly a delightful moment. I could feel my brain click.