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Dec. 22nd, 2007 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI will not stay up all night watching an entire season of television show as if it were one really long movie. I will not stay up all night watching an entire season of television show as if it were one really long movie. I will not stay up all night watching an entire season of television as if it were one really long movie.
I finished downloading season 2 of Dexter yesterday afternoon. (Irritating side note: It takes me longer to download television than it takes me to watch it.) I got done watching it at approximately 5:00 AM this morning, having started straight away after work. *sigh* I am too freaking old to be this stupid. Man, I'm gonna be all drag-ass today. STUPID!
I know full well that TV does not expire. I know that there's plenty of time for me to schedule both TV watching *and* sleep. I realize that the story will be there later and I even realize, in the binge-phase of late night gotta-watch-it-all television, that I will totally feel like shit the following day and possibly the next two days, depending on how badly I abuse the system.
And yet... I do this kind of boneheaded thing when I have a boatload of stuff to get through on the weekend (lots of family togetherness time, for example plus also holiday prep plus would like to see horse plus giftings plus plus plus). Maybe it's a stress response? Also, it's not just TV. I do it with gotta-read books, too, and projects and stuff.
The media binge problem is not so obvious with books because I can plow through even fairly hefty books (eg. HP7, Strange&Norrell, A Feast for Crows) in about four hours. Barring an ungodly late start, I'll be asleep by 2:00 AM for a book no matter what, so it doesn't generally flatten my days as badly as television. The rare exception to that is when people give me a series of books all at one time instead of doling them out one by each like sensible and caring friends. I seem to recall a lost weekend of Vorkosigan Saga goodness during which I read all that they gave me and didn't come up for air until there were no more. Unfortunately, they had a very complete collection and all of my Vorkosigan readings were done in the space of that very, very short timeframe. Back in college, I also spent the night before a final (middle of finals week) without much sleep or studying b/c my alleged friend Ivy handed me a freaking stack of Mercedes Lackey novels and I felt that I had to read them all, all at once, in a big slurp of slushy fictiony goodness. (Epicure at me if you like, but sometimes what you want is a syrupy red slushee.)
Anyway, those isolated incidents notwithstanding, television is more of a problem for me because it only goes by at the speed that it plays. I can't *watch* tv faster than normal people, not like I read faster than normal people. The only bright side here is that I don't generally do the media binge thing on *weeknights* anymore. I'm inclined to put that down as a sign of advancing age more than a sign of any real shift in the winds of stupidity.
Also: my eyes itch.
I finished downloading season 2 of Dexter yesterday afternoon. (Irritating side note: It takes me longer to download television than it takes me to watch it.) I got done watching it at approximately 5:00 AM this morning, having started straight away after work. *sigh* I am too freaking old to be this stupid. Man, I'm gonna be all drag-ass today. STUPID!
I know full well that TV does not expire. I know that there's plenty of time for me to schedule both TV watching *and* sleep. I realize that the story will be there later and I even realize, in the binge-phase of late night gotta-watch-it-all television, that I will totally feel like shit the following day and possibly the next two days, depending on how badly I abuse the system.
And yet... I do this kind of boneheaded thing when I have a boatload of stuff to get through on the weekend (lots of family togetherness time, for example plus also holiday prep plus would like to see horse plus giftings plus plus plus). Maybe it's a stress response? Also, it's not just TV. I do it with gotta-read books, too, and projects and stuff.
The media binge problem is not so obvious with books because I can plow through even fairly hefty books (eg. HP7, Strange&Norrell, A Feast for Crows) in about four hours. Barring an ungodly late start, I'll be asleep by 2:00 AM for a book no matter what, so it doesn't generally flatten my days as badly as television. The rare exception to that is when people give me a series of books all at one time instead of doling them out one by each like sensible and caring friends. I seem to recall a lost weekend of Vorkosigan Saga goodness during which I read all that they gave me and didn't come up for air until there were no more. Unfortunately, they had a very complete collection and all of my Vorkosigan readings were done in the space of that very, very short timeframe. Back in college, I also spent the night before a final (middle of finals week) without much sleep or studying b/c my alleged friend Ivy handed me a freaking stack of Mercedes Lackey novels and I felt that I had to read them all, all at once, in a big slurp of slushy fictiony goodness. (Epicure at me if you like, but sometimes what you want is a syrupy red slushee.)
Anyway, those isolated incidents notwithstanding, television is more of a problem for me because it only goes by at the speed that it plays. I can't *watch* tv faster than normal people, not like I read faster than normal people. The only bright side here is that I don't generally do the media binge thing on *weeknights* anymore. I'm inclined to put that down as a sign of advancing age more than a sign of any real shift in the winds of stupidity.
Also: my eyes itch.
