ways I waste time on the internet #2

2. Television.

Now I know what you're thinking. Television happens on the tv. Unfortunately, the development of TV on the internet has spelled the death of any productive time I once had on the computer, or elsewhere. Like, in life.

Once upon a time, I only watched one tv show. Gilmore Girls. Every week, Tuesday at 8/7c.

Since it's fall again and all the tv shows are starting up, this is the full list of what I watch over the course of the week (not all of these have started yet so I'm anticipating by a couple weeks). Not when they air, but later on the internet, usually, like for several hours earlier today, when I should have been doing work.

Sundays: Mad Men
Mondays: Gossip Girl, Chuck, Heroes
Tuesday: (Apparently, nothing happens on Tuesdays. I meant to start watching 90210 since it has Michael from the Wire on it and Lucille Bluth, but I think we all know this show is going to be discovered, murdered and covered in lime, in an abandoned house along with all the other shitshows of seasons past)
Wednesday: Pushing Daisies, (sometimes, because it actually blows) Private Practice
Thursday: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy (inexplicably because this unsurprisingly blows as well), 30 Rock, My Name is Earl
Friday: (The Game actually comes out on Fridays I think, but I don't watch this show regularly, even though I do rather like it)
Saturday: I will admit to watching the SNL tina fey as palin clips lately, but everyone knows this show blows, and they are only seven minutes long, tops since no one actually watches the whole damn show and they don't even post the entire thing on the internet because they are fucking stupid (because if The Powers That Be did, I would probably watch it)

Now that is seven hour-long dramas and two half-hour sitcoms every fucking week, not to mention all the tv on dvd I watch. I managed to finish Twin Peaks in about two weeks on top of this grueling tv watching schedule. Buffy, Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, Veronica Mars... I like to rewatch the same things over and over.

Am I fucking embarrassed? Yes. Am I ashamed of myself? Yes. Will I keep doing it? Sadly, yes.

I think my brain has melted and this is why I can no longer write or read books. I can give a person a brilliant summary on the plot points of Gossip Girl. And the minutiae I remember of Gilmore Girls terrifies even myself, sometimes. Kids, for the record, it's true. I used to be really smart. Television does rot the brain.

Also, thank god baseball season is almost over because the pressure to watch baseball games AND all this television is really more than I can bear. If you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm. Oh to be a cubs fan...