The return of Gossip Girl is just 10 days, three hours and five minutes away (not that we're obsessed), and Entertainment Weekly has some new teasers / Gossip Girl spoilers about the final eight episodes of the current season for us.

Some of this we knew, and some we didn't. Either way, enjoy - and count down the minutes until March 16 at 8 p.m. with the staff of Gossip Girl Insider:

For Gossip Girl's final eight episodes of Season 2, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "She's realizing that life is not turning out how she wanted," says executive producer Stephanie Savage.

Blair will seek solace in her old flame Nate (Chace Crawford).

Meanwhile, Blair's frenemy Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) will once again hit a rough patch in her life after falling under the spell of a dubious tobacco heir (hints Stephanie Savage: "Let's just say Serena gets a mug shot").

All this, plus college acceptances, prom, and the Constance Billard school play.

Adds Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Schwartz, "You have not lived until you've seen Nelly Yuki in a fat suit in The Age of Innocence."

No, no we have not.

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