From: peea224@chpc.utexas.edu (Joanna L. Castillo)
Subject: DOOL: A flashback...of sorts.
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 07:25:27 GMT

Well, gee...it's the end of the year and time for me to go on 
Christmas vacation.  Yippee!  I was cleaning up my hard disk at home a 
couple of weeks ago and stumbled on my last post before last year's 
Christmas vacation started and it inspired me to repost it along with 
some additional commentary.  The new stuff is in brackets.  

:)  

Okay...here goes...

1)  Talk about no air time!  WHERE'S Vic???

[1992:  Well, I guess the air time is up slightly but the storyline 
pretty much stinks, eh?]

2)  Kudos!  Some people actually recalled absent loved ones:
    Julie mentioned Doug (not by name!)
    Jenn and Maggie mentioned Melissa and Sarah

[1992:  When Sheri Anderson showed up, people started mentioning the 
long gone again.  They're still doing it a lot more than they did last 
year but it sure is inconsistent -- for example...Frankie sent a gift 
for Carly and Bo's wedding but didn't sign Eve's name to the card?  
Weird.]

3)  Jenn's so dumb!!  What's the deal?  She's going to go
    *all* the way over to her Grandma's house to spend
    Christmas and Hawk's going to check on the penthouse and
    pick up her mail while she's gone??  What a guy!  And,
    she wants to buy him (a supposed gen-U-ine cow-poke) a
    pair of jodhpurs?  JODHPURS???  It must be the latest in
    rodeo fashion, huh?  NOT!!!!

[1992:  Heh...I guess Jenn got a bit smarter, eh?  :)  Although I 
really don't think she's cut out to be a talk show host.  And, where 
did Calliope disappear to????]

4)  Jack's so dumb!!  Puh-leeze!  Enough with the ski mask.
    If *I* saw someone wandering around the streets with a
    ski mask on, I think I might be tempted to call the
    police.  He's supposed to be in hiding and all the mask
    does is call attention to him!!  Ooooh, but what a lovely
    suit -- it won't call *any* attention to him, especially
    the way he compliments it with that *lovely* army green
    ski mask.  One more time:  puh-leeeeze!

[1992:  Gee...I'm really glad that storyline is over!  It makes the 
current Mr. Mom/novelist story seem like high art!  'Tis sad indeed.]

5)  I guess that since Jenn's so dumb (see 3) and Jack's so
    dumb (see 4), they belong together forever and ever!  :-)

[1992:  No comment.  :-)]

6)  YEA!!!!!!  Grandma's suspiiiiiiscious of Hawk -- she just
    doesn't trust him.  It's *so* good to see.

[1992:  And where are Alice and Tom these days?  Not to mention all 
the other veterans.  Sigh...what's the deal with firing SSH?]

7)  Desiree ringing for the Salvation Army.  Great!  And her
    singing gave me chills.  Wow!

[1992:  I still get chills when I think of that scene.  What a voice 
-- Billie's a singer?  Ha!  I laugh at the idea when I remember 
Desiree.]

Well, that's it for last year's post.  I guess the show really is 
better now -- how spooky.  Oh, and I didn't manage to get Friday's 
show on tape but I found a friend who'd taped it so I did get to see
Christie Clark briefly.  It was good to see her back.  By her second
scene, I couldn't even remember what Tracy Middendork looked like.  :)
Although I must say that the scene where Austin was "reminding" her of
a favor she was supposed to do for Roman and Marlena seemed very very
akward and out of place.  What was the deal?  And what was that story?
Is it O'Henry?  Sigh...you couldn't see that coming a mile away, could
you?  "No...I can't save my life by selling those records...they're 
for something much more important!  Blech.  

Ah, well, happy holidays and happy DAYS to all...  :)

Joanna (I'll be baaaaack).

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