I used to be able to enjoy the Oscars in a relaxed, carefree fashion. Now, I run a pop-culture and entertainment blog, which means I enjoy the Oscars as a backbreaking workload. But somehow, I still sort of look forward to the entire, overblown thing.

We have been doing a ton of Oscar coverage at the blog this week, including some stuff I’m very happy about. We landed a fashion discussion with Heather and Jessica today, and we’ve got some other stuff up from this week, and I’m doing a liveblog on Sunday night with the Music Stylist and the Couch Baron, and tomorrow, I am spending all day seeing the Best Picture nominees (in most cases for the second time). Follow me on Twitter at monkeyseeblog, and I will tell you all the horrifying details. My hope is that the Twitter feed will become a good way to get very short updates on whatever is currently horrifying or thrilling me.

Now that Survivor and The Amazing Race are back on, I hope to make my way back over here to talk about them, but believe me, it’s mostly good news that I’m working very hard right now. I’m lucky to be dealing with NPR, and with MSNBC (where I’ve been doing Grey’s Anatomy every week and where I think I may be doing some Dancing With The Stars soon), and with whatever else comes along. I regret that I have, like, no time to write for free, but if you think about it…it’s kinda good news.

Everything’s good. I’m just wildly busy.