My Addiction

Please don't make fun of the artwork above. I just made in paint and am actually very proud of myself for sitting down and figuring it out. I don't have the fancy photoshop like most people so I have to make due.

I may have mentioned before that I am a sloth. Sometimes I really have to give my own butt a good kick before I get any work done. As most are, I am awful with procrastination. I will find every excuse to not finish something including a need to use the restroom before I can really get started.

But the thing that I use the most often is the television in my room. Facebook used to take its toll but that's sort of fallen by the wayside. With everyone spreading their time out between all the different online networking tools I just don't get as many facebook notifications to keep me interested.
So I turn to 'old faithful'. There's ALWAYS something on the television that I can sit through at the very least. I can normally find an episode of 'Family Guy' lurking somewhere. When I had netflix it was game over for whatever productive thing I was supposed to be doing.

I used to be downright nasty when I couldn't watch the shows I had recorded. Or when there were no new shows to watch! It was as though television allowed me to slip into another world where my mind could run on auto pilot. James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) once said (and I am paraphrasing here because I can't find the clip) that none of the fans showed any lusty interest in him until Spike kissed Buffy for the first time. After that he couldn't go to the laundry mat without someone trying to grab his butt. He then went on to say that it was because fans, for one hour every week, didn't just watch Buffy they WERE Buffy. Her life became theirs. One great thing about becoming a television character is that the choices are made for you. It's relaxing.

I turn to television when I want to turn my mind off for a bit, which would be okay if I stopped at a healthy point. You know, like: Alright I've been numb to the world for a half hour it's to time to switch back on and face yourself. But like with any other drug it comes complete with the phrase "I can stop if I want." And I suppose at times I could stop if I wanted but generally I just don't want to.

Another good excuse i'll pull out is "Well I'll do my work WHILE I watch this episode." Sometimes I do about an eigth of the thing I wanted to accomplish but that's only on good days.

I know it's very odd to speak out against television, while I myself am trying to work my way onto that screen but I have to see it for what it is.
It's time consuming. "I'll only watch one more episode in this marathon before I go to bed." I bet some of you have said that. Has anyone ever felt extrememly good about their life after watching 5 hours of one show? Maybe it's just me but after a T.V. binge I have to remind myself of who I am and the things I want to accomplish. My mind just allows itself to get too wrapped up in the fake lives before me.

So lately I have been cutting back and trying to get myself to eliminate the shows it most assuredly doesn't need. Like Gossip Girl. Every week I watched that show it would end and I'd feel as though it had tricked me somehow. Like maybe it had used witchcraft to make me watch. It's an awful show. Not necessarily the acting because sometimes those actors delivered perfectly solid performers. The plot is what i'm referring to. It's dirty and no one is nice and I don't want to watch people be hateful all the time. It just is not fun.

That is why this season I will be looking at television from a perfectly professional standpoint. I'll be reviewing the newest pilots and cutting back on my intake just for the sake of not having to think of anything else. I've got this brilliatn mind in hibernation half the time and it hardly seems fair to deprive the rest of the world!

There are of course shows that I will not be cutting back on. Doctor Who for instance. Brilliant. They need to start putting more brilliant things on the air. I have never seen Jersey Shore but I am ashamed to say that I know the name of Nicole 'Snooki' Poluzzi.

Ugh even as I type this blog it's late from putting it off for so long. I'll have to start posting earlier in the day so as to make sure you all are getting the best version of me possible.

Goodnight all.

Have some stellar dreams,
E.M.G.

P.S. If you're having trouble kicking your television addiction, try some of these tips on how to minimize your viewing.