Category: What’s entertaining?

Friends

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Friends is an American sitcom airing from 1994-2004 that focuses on 3 men and 3 women in their late 20’s living in the same apartment complex in New York City. Monica Geller (played by Courtney Cox) and Ross Geller (played by David Schwimmer) are brother and sister. They are 2 of the main characters and are very close throughout all 10 seasons. Monica is a chef and Ross is a paleontologist who eventually becomes a college professor. Monica and Ross are both very organized and type A, while Ross is more of a nerd. Ross’s college roommate and best friend Chandler Bing (played by Matthew Perry) is also one of the main characters. He and Ross remain close throughout the show and he ends up in a serious relationship with Monica, and the 2 eventually get married. Chandler works as an accountant and is often found making sarcastic and pessimistic jokes towards his friends. He is not super close to his parents and uses his friends as his main support system. In the very first episode, Monica ends up reuniting with her best friend from high school, Rachel Greene, (played by Jennifer Anniston). Rachel and Monica had their differences as Rachel was the popular girl in high school and Monica was often the victim of many jokes from her peers. All throughout high school, Ross had a crush on Rachel but she viewed him as Monica’s older dorky brother but that soon starts to change. When she finds Monica, Rachel has just been cut off and is running away from her wedding. Monica takes her in and eventually Rachel lands a job working at Ralph Lauren and finds her way. Throughout the rest of the seasons, Rachel and Ross remain in an on and off relationship but end up having a child together. Their 2 other friends, Joey Tribbiani (played by Matt LeBlanc) and Pheobe (played by Lisa Kudrow) are big parts of the show as well. Joey is an actor on Days of Our lives and is the stereotypical guy who often goes out with girls and enjoys watching sports. Phoebe, a massage therapist, is a free spirit who often sings in the cafe and gets herself into trouble. She had a rough upbringing as her mother killed herself and she was living on the streets of New York City by the age of 14. Although her twin sister Ursula did not, and the 2 do not keep in contact. Over the course of 10 years, this group of 6 friends experiences life together in New York City and help each other through relationship, family, and work problems.

Greys Anatomy

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Greys’ Anatomy is a TV show on ABC that began in 2005 and is currently on it’s 16th season. It focuses around Meredith Grey the daughter of a world famous surgeon who recently died from Alzheimers, and an alcoholic father who she later reconnects with. The show follows her life from when she began as an intern and eventually up to her becoming an attending at her own hospital. Throughout this show, she reconnects with her biological sister Maggie, meets her husband Derek, and has 3 kids. Together, Meredith and Derek adopted their first kid Zola, who was a pro-bono patient from Africa. Later on they have 2 kids of their own, Bailey and Ellis. Her husband Derek, a neurosurgeon at the same hospital, dies in a car crash right before the birth of their 3 child, Bailey, who was named after the boss of the hospital. Throughout all 16 seasons, she meets friends like Alex and Christina, who are also her co-workers, who help her through the hard times of losing her husband and surviving a plane crash. In an earlier season, the main characters were on a private plane to deliver donor organs to another patient at another hospital. The plane ended up crashing which causes trauma for all of them that they all work to overcome. Many of them suffered injuries and all had to find each other and get help after the plane had crashed. In the current season, Meredith is at risk of losing her medical license over insurance fraud. A newly Hispanic man who recently immigrated to America couldn’t afford a surgery for his daughter and applied for aid from the government but wasn’t eligible for financial help. He was working 2 jobs while it was just him and his daughter in America and the rest of the family was back in Mexico. Meredith seeing this wants to help so she says it was her own daughter who was receiving the surgery. Her best friend Alex, and the former boss Richard, both knew and helped her perform the surgery. This results in all of them being fired and forced to find other hospitals to work at. Despite Meredith owning the hospital. Meredith has to do community service as a consequence which she often skips to look after her children and ends up in federal prison for 30 days. While she is in prison, her sister Maggie and boyfriend look after her children but it is difficult for Meredith to not be at work or not around her kids. For Alex and Richard, they find a new hospital to work at which is a low rated hospital that doesn’t have the resources to properly take care of patients. They are trying to turn the hospital around so that patients can receive good care but nothing seems to be working. I really enjoy this TV show because I find the medical world very interesting and I like how they also focus on the medical advancements being made each day through research and testing.

About Me

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My name is Ellie Fallon and I live in Naperville, Illinois with both of my parents. I have 3 older siblings, 2 sisters and a brother, who have all graduated from college. My oldest sister Kalie graduated from Ohio State and is now going back to school at the University of Colorado Boulder. My brother Drew and sister Molly are twins and both live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Molly graduated from Marquette and is now studying to become a nurse practitioner at Alverno College. Drew studied business at the University of Miami-Ohio and got a job in Milwaukee and now he and sister get to see each other very often because they now live less than a mile away from each other. My parents and I frequently make trips to Milwaukee to see both of them. My parents also both graduated from Marquette University which is where they met so they both really enjoy visiting my sister. For the past 3 years, I played lacrosse at North and have met a lot of friends from being apart of a team. It also taught me a lot of valuable life lessons and I was able to form strong relationships with all my coaches. Even though I am happy I’ve played lacrosse for the past 3 years of my life, I’ve decided to not play this year because I want to focus more on college and my academics as well as senior year. I also really enjoy hanging out with my friends outside of school whenever I can and I enjoy being social and attending school events like football games. I also like spending my free time on the weekend outside and being active. I also like listening to music and going to concerts with my friends.