Michelle

Okay, so who wasn't waiting for Michelle to figure back into 24?

I confess, I thought that whole, "I turned drunk and Michelle eventually got pissed off and left me" storyline had something to do with, perhaps, the girl who plays her having another job or something. So I'm not saying I saw it coming. I just really, really wanted it to happen.

By the way, all last season, I was plagued with "what else has she been in" disease, until I realized the truth and spent about two hours rolling my eyes at myself. You see, I spent a brief period in college watching two soap operas. One of them was (gack) One Life to Live, and she was on that show when I watched it.

I think she eventually died tragically, although I cannot, for the life of me, remember why or how. I can only assume that she had amnesia at some point, or perhaps discovered an evil twin or two.

I just Googled it, and apparently, I should be happy that I appear to have prioritized my brain to block out any fact from watching that horrid show. I just read a little synopsis of what happened to her character, and none of it sounds all that familiar. She didn't even get a tragic death, it appears. Just a "slink out of town because you're embarassed".

How much does that suck? I mean, half the fun of being on a soap opera would be getting to do the dramatic death scene, followed by the inevitable return from the grave. Then some wild sex, a wedding that's interrupted by your long lost love who you marry instead. Then you have a kid who goes off to military school at the age of four and returns two years later as a petulant 16 year old looking for trouble.

But I'm rambling.