I changed my blog layout! A small accomplishment that made me feel I was being productive and doing school work, so that's cool.
So what consciousness is there to report on right now? I'm sitting in my apartment, using my newly set up internet and therefore no longer stealing from the neighbors. My boyfriend, Matt and I had been doing that for like two weeks since we moved in, and were always annoyed when the signals we could pick up were blocked with passwords, but then of course when we got our internet installed, we password guarded ours! This seems a good example of human nature somehow.
My apartment has french doors dividing the living room and what we have deemed the office, so I can see Matt out there watching the movie Accepted on HBO, but the sound is muffled, and he can see me sitting here typing. It makes me feel a bit as if I were in a science experiment-- perhaps like Mary? Or maybe Matt is in the experiment, the affect of cable TV on the 29 year old mind. I am proud that I was able to tear myself away and start doing work, and that I'm not even so distracted by the fact that I can still see the TV.
TV is an interesting part of consciousness, why is it so damn entertaining? I am actually something of a couch potato, but am ashamed of this fact, and often wonder how I am able to shut my brain down for an hour (or hours...) at a time, and give into this box. I guess I'm not totally shutting down, I react, I think, sometimes I watch educational programs. But somehow TV gets into our minds, sometimes I find myself feeling emotions involuntarily; I'm sad when the wife dies in a stupid movie I'm only half watching and criticizing in my head for its stupid dialogue.
Anyway, those are my thoughts right now. Don't judge me for watching TV! I'm smart, really. And Matt is too.
Comments (1)
I definitely understand that feeling! I was brought up as a TV kid - I ate in front of it, everyone had one in their room, I even did my homework in front of it.
I still do that. Right now I have a random Food Network show on in the background as I type this. I'm not really paying attention, but its comforting to have noise in the background. I never really liked working in silence, if I'm not watching TV I'm listening to music.
But I've also always been told that I've got an annoying bit of ADD - I can't really sit still for very long. I wonder if I always needed the TV on (and often music too and my phone...) to settle that ADDed part of my mind, or do I have that part of my mind because it had to get used to my habit of doing three things at once?
Posted by Arielle | September 10, 2007 12:30 AM
Posted on September 10, 2007 00:30