At long last, the Golden Globes nominations are in. Now, the debates over various actors’ and creators’ prospects can begin in earnest. One nominee to watch? Rachel Bloom, who took home the statuette for best actress in a TV comedy last year—and now has the chance to take it home again this year. The competition is especially stiff—the other nominees are Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Issa Rae (Insecure), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Sarah Jessica Parker (Divorce), and Tracee Ellis Ross (Blackish)—but nonetheless, Bloom is thrilled.

Speaking with Vanity Fair this morning, the actress employed a few choice metaphors to explain her excitement.

“I think the thing that I learned when I started actually getting jobs in entertainment and Hollywood is that there are very few things that happen all at once,” Bloom told Vanity Fair. “When you pitch a show, when you’re waiting on good news, it kind of happens gradually. Or when you least expect it . . . Award nominations, announcements, and awards are kind of the only thing that is like, ‘You will hear about a life-changing event at exactly 5:15 a.m. on this day.’ And it feels—it’s the same energy as waiting for the high-school play cast list to come out. Like, you know that there is this finite period after which your life may never be the same. Or your life stays the same.”

“There’s this scene in the Muppet Movie when the Muppets go into Orson Welles’s office, and he gives them the standard ‘Hollywood Rich and Famous Contract,’” Bloom continued. “Mornings like this are the closest my life gets to The Muppet Movie.”

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has developed a small but loyal following on the CW, and also garnered critical attention alongside another of the network’s offerings, Jane the Virgin. Since the beginning, Bloom said she and her co-creator, Aline Brosh McKenna, had a finite story in mind—one that spans roughly four seasons. Each season has its own trajectory and theme, and according to Bloom, fans can expect Season 3 to be just as much of an evolution as Season 2 has been.

“It’s really exiting for us to be writing a comedy that moves and changes with a dynamic shift,” Bloom said. “And the dynamics keep shifting. And I will say, Season 3—knock on wood—is very different from Season 2. Not very different in that it’s on the moon, but we have specific arcs for each kind of section of this story.”

So, could the upcoming Golden Globes ceremony see an encore of Bloom’s charmingly breathless speech from last year? Obviously, the situation’s a lot more nuanced than that—but it’s safe to say a lot of fans are hoping so.