Television

I'm sitting here at work, having done just about all the studying and reading I can tolerate before I have to leave for class. It's been a mother of a day, starting at 4:55 and not ending until close to 9. My posture is sufferingly drastically, and now I'm artificially stiff backed, to make up for the past five hundred hours of slouching.

I know that I have to get rid of my television. I can't remember the last book I completely finished reading, and it depresses me that I've gone from being a person who read regularly and steadily for years to one who only has time and patience for new yorker and times articles. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with those two periodicals, but I feel like something is missing when I don't read something that I have to tuck into. I really want to read this Chabon book you've just mentioned. I'm going to get this book, and I'm going to start reading it, and I'm not going to let wonderful, freeing, soul caressing television distract me. No more Iron chef, animal planet, no more espn, travel network, televised poker, and martial arts fighting. Dammit, no more! Maybe!

It's intellectual lazyness. Man. I'm not even going to buy the argument that there are grades of television, there is no better or worse television, it's all garbage. Oh, but so sweet. Some of these reality programs are so fascinating, like the ones where they follow incredibly rich kids around as they go shopping at barney's, and the travails as they meet their incredibly removed father for dinner. I'm shocked he remembers his daughters names. And the cliques and parties and boys and plastic surgery, it's fucking truly amazing some of these shows.

Wow, I love tv. Fuck.

Cool that you're going on a business trip. Is it down to Chicago? It is nice to expense dinners, I always try to get nice dinners when I travel, althought I haven't travelled in more than 3 years now.

Oh, and I'm not sure if I'm chipper or if I'm manic. Man, I can't wait for Thanksgiving. There is nothing like taking some serious time off.