It's been some time now since my last post, nearly a month. Part of this is my perpetual feeling that I "don't have time" for things when I'm actually just not in the mood to write anything. Today I'm particularly inspired, and it might be because I haven't been watching TV lately. For some reason I just generally feel better because of it. Seriously, there is very little about TV that makes one happy. Occasionally I catch myself grasping for those lost moments of my life spent watching Gilmore Girls (to make it worse, I don't even really like that show all that much). It's pathetic. The commercials only make it worse. If you don't have TiVo, which we don't in my house, you know that those 8 minutes spent for every half hour of Friends are a complete, unequivocal waste of life, and to be perfectly honest it gives me heartburn just thinking about it. With the exception of TV watched in social situations (and a good episode or two of The O.C. on DVD), I'm finally starting to understand what all the fuss is about when all those intellectually superior people tell me, "oh, I don't watch TV."
Now, I'm not saying I want to give it up forever. Lord knows I'm the type of person that gets seriously hooked to Lost and The Office and needs to watch every episode ever by the end of the week. But lately I've been trying to, well, procrastinate, in ways other than staring at a colored screen for an hour and a half, and it has been amazing. I'm currently reading two books, but only because I just got one of them on Amazon today (My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler, too funny). It's completely relaxing to relax in a way that is... unplugged (I write, on my blog... on my computer... partially freaking out because my gmail won't work...). Maybe what I'm getting to is that this strange, strange relationship we have, particularly people my age and younger who have never lived without some kind of perpetual connection to electronic equipment, just can't be healthy. It just can't. Watching TV (commercials, really) never, ever makes me feel better. Neither does reading the news on my blackberry. Although, reading the txts frm lst nght app I just got does sometimes. Everyone, if you've never been to www.textsfromlastnight.com, please go. OK, I know that everything I've written on this blog is ironic ("TV makes me feel awful... everyone go to this website") but I'm going to make it my little experiment. I am honestly going to make a concerted effort to be less plugged in... and then blog about it. Or video blog about it. Or get a twitter. Maybe, we'll have to see.
Until next time!
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