The brilliant Carl Sagan is into something with this poignant quote from his artillery of awesome quotes. It makes me ponder. It makes me think. It makes me want to throw my Macbook Pro off my lap, get my arse off the couch and sprint around the block looking up at the night sky only to return home and hide under the covers from an unbearable feeling of loneliness.
So we both love a good tv series. From The X Files to Millennium, Gossip Girl to the Wire, Game of Thrones to Mad Men.
Like the internet-savvy, modern couple that we are – and having been conditioned on the pain of waiting a whole week for the next instalment of 24, (let's face it, having to sit through commercial breaks during 24 was painful) – we now do not download a TV show until the season is almost complete*.