This week was pretty awesome. To start off, the materials my design group needs to start construction on our project arrived (though construction has yet to begin due to less awesome issues). Following that, the final issue of Y: The Last Man arrived and gave a satisfying ending to a really great comic. And then Lost returned. That was obviously the most awesome part of this week, whether you think that’s sad or not. Finally, there was no school yesterday. OK, I should fess up about the last thing; it’s not all that awesome. I like school, and missing the chance to learn, especially when the schedule for learning is so tight, is actually pretty lame. But, sometimes it’s nice to have an unexpected respite from those stresses, even more so when it gives you a long weekend.

But all told, this week was pretty awesome. Of course, the real meat of this awesome sandwich was Y’s last issue and Lost’s premiere. As much as it sucks to see a long-term story you’ve come to look forward to go away, all stories need to end. That’s why Y was such a bittersweet experience. The final issue was more of an epilogue, recapping sixty years of the new world of inordinately few males. It highlighted the greatest hits of Yorick’s remaining life. There are some reasonably shocking moments, but all in all the story ends with a conscientious, relaxed whimper.

Lost goes in a different direction. The show blasts out of the gate and lays on the awesome in heaping dollops. From the flashforwards to the freighter people to the splitting of the losties, everything follows from the finale of last year and sets up the rest of the season. I say it sets up the rest of the season, but from what I’ve heard this season moves very fast, so many of the threads introduced over the course of this episode may be mostly resolved within the next few episodes, naturally leaving more unraveled threads to play with.

And yes, I purposefully used the word awesome way too many times in this post. I’ve always been bad at describing my opinions on recent events. I typically need some level of hindsight before I can articulate well enough to get my point across, so I’ve decided to avoid that quagmire entirely by using a simplistic adjective to demonstrate my general state. I feel that this may be yet another awesome step in my progress to developing my writing ability through accepting of existing un-awesome limitations. So… this week was pretty freaking awesome.