After a brisk bicycle ride to work, I think my body temperature must be somewhere around 140, especially in this humid weather. I rip off my helmet at the bike rack and everyone in a two block radius thinks its raining. I'll tell you what though, it makes the air-conditioning in my office feel downright supernaturally good.

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to bring the ol' girl into the shop already. It seems like I'm getting a little contact between the rear wheel and the frame.

Watching the last few hours of good old-fashioned analog television. It's Letterman vs. Palin... mean girls beating and shaving one of their classmates... that idiot Miss California... last surviving Golden Girl Bettie White... penis enlargement... cooking barbeque... the 700 Club trying to cure homosexuality... the election in Iran... and oooh Black Eyed Peas in concert!

T-Minus 132 minutes and counting til static....

11:56: 4 minutes and counting!!! That 12 months of Comcast for $30/month package is looking better and better...

12:03: What the Heck!?!?! NBC just showed them flipping the switch and our tv is still working!

12:04: Scratch that, it just died. I have no TV!!!!

12:05: Wait, it's just NBC that's gone. Oh, Peacock, I will always hate you for the being the first to betray me!

12:09: All the PBS stations are gone too.

12:16: Awww... Fox is doing a sentimental story about the history of the local affiliate. The owner used to broadcast it out of his own apartment!

12:22: Everybody on TV keeps implying that I'm ready for the transition. Fools!

12:24: Go ahead and futile advertise the television programming you're taking away from me!

12:25: Takeout sushi arrives! I shall at least have yum-yums!

12:29: One minute til the other stations leave me! Stop calling it readiness day!

12:30: NBC had a switch, Fox has a button. Oooh, Fox went out just as the pretty blonde hit the button. Cool!

12:31: Awww, CBS went to some old test pattern and then flashed a goodbye message to me before it died. Sweet!

12:32: Even the CW is gone! Do my years of loyal viewing count for nothing?

12:33: I have only the Spanish station now! A woman is hanging laundry. Uh oh, a fat man is about to tickle her!

12:35: It seems prophetic that the only station left now is called Univision.

12:38: Making the TV do an auto-channel search in hopes of some pirate station showing up.

12:40: Wow, Univision is not alone! The auto-search found three informercial stations, another Spanish language station, and some religious station.

12:44: Fine, I'll just watch an episode of 30 Rock I burned....

3:10: K. just called to say that the Cable people are coming on Sunday afternoon. She's very excited by the idea of watching True Blood legally as it's actually airing.

Well, there was nothing wrong with yesterday that a few drinks couldn't take care of. In a related story, I rode my bicycle slightly drunk for the first time yesterday! Did pretty well, I think. Of course, I was wise enough to put off the second half of my drinking until I made it back to South Philly. Just to be safe.

I feel absurdly mellow today, like absolutely anything could happen and it wouldn't affect me at all. It's not quite what I would call Zen-like or even detached, not exactly. It's just calmness, steadiness, like the beach under the waves, constantly being both diminished and replenished.

I'm half certain that this is just the set-up for some nervous breakdown or other emotional crisis, but I'm just going to try and enjoy the peace while I have it.

Well, the sixth and final season of The L Word is now over.

I think my longtime feelings about the show would have been better if they'd just ended it with last season. Seasons four and five were both excellent, satisfying drama, and the season five finale worked fine as a permanent ending.

Season six started with the police arriving to investigate the suspected murder of the show's most irritating character. Over the seasons, Jenny has grown from selfish and irresponsible to psychotic and unforgivably manipulative. And not in a good way. Jenny's presence in any scene is enough to make me grit my teeth, so I was thrilled that she was dead. Unfortunately, that didn't mean she was out of the show. In fact, just about everything between that initial scene and the final scene of the show was Jenny-centric flashback.

And not normal Jenny either, but Jenny with the annoying cranked up to 11. Each episode featured at least one character getting screwed over by Jenny and dramatically wishing her dead, thus creating the fun expectation that any of them might have done it. The fact that Lucy Lawless (Xena) was cast as the police detective promised that the season might even act as a decent mystery. But sadly, such hopes were dashed as the episode ended without giving us a single clue as to who actually did it.

While the episode gave little closure on the mystery issue, it bent over backwards to deliver microclosure on most of the characters lives, as many of their many relationship issues got more or less resolved in one day flat just in time for Jenny to die. We even got some cameos of old, nearly forgotten characters like Tim and Marina.

But we don't know who killed Jenny! Or do we? Apparently show creator Ilene Chaiken has made a pilot for a women's prison drama starring Leisha Hailey as her L-Word character Alice Pieszecki. I'm not so sure I need to see cute, peppy Alice in prison, especially since the L-Word already showed us Helena in prison. And even if Alice is in prison for killing Jenny, I doubt very much that she's actually guilty.