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No More TV

So I’ve decided to not watch tv anymore. Again. Several years ago we didn’t watch any tv at all. Then I caught an episode or two of Lost and we were hooked. Over the past year and a half we’ve gotten into several more shows. We’re at four now, I think, that we watch week to week.

But I decided the other night (Thursday night, to be precise) that I’m losing too much time watching these shows.

Off with the tube. I think I’m even going to pass over Lost when it returns next month. It’s nice that there’s been this hiatus to break my need for the show. When an episode ends, I can hardly wait for the next. But it’s been so long since a new ep, the desire to see new ones is fairly blunted and easily resisted.

And so, goodbye Jack, goodbye Hiro, goodbye Gregory. We’ll have no more too late nights together. But don’t worry, we’ll catch up in the occasional synopsis.

1 comment

1 Matt Winckler { 12.04.06 at 2012 }

Bravo. We don’t watch TV either, though rather more by accident than design. Neither my wife nor I had a TV in college (no room in the dorms!), and by the time we were out, we realized that we didn’t miss it, though we did acquire a TV for movies. Now we don’t even have a set at all, only watching movies occasionally on the computer (which I can’t really advocate, as the computer chair is much less comfortable than a decent couch!).

Now that it’s ingrained habit to not have it, I don’t know how I would possibly make time to start watching TV again. It’s amazing how other things move in to take its place – for me, hobby web design and board gaming, but there’s always something.

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