Dear Jeff "Doc" Jensen,

I'm tired, cause it's 7:30 in the morning, but so far I've been in a pretty good mood because I got up and went to the gym and treated myself to Starbucks. And then, when I got home, I was even more happy to see that you had a new column up on the EW site about tonight's "Lost," sure to be filled with all kinds of Lostie goodness.

Why then--in your opening sentence even--must you depress me so?

At exactly the 30-minute mark in tonight's episode, the strike-shortened fourth season of Lost will reach its halfway mark. At the 31-minute mark, we'll have seen more Lost this year than we will see for the rest of the year. And by the 60-minute mark, we'll have just six more episodes of Lost left until the show waddles into its cave for another nine-month nap.

Thanks, Jeff. Now I want to crawl back into bed.

Best,

Loree Stark