7.27.2004
Hello everybody...
I am in AK now, have been for awhile. I have been busy since I got here. Working, getting school stuff ready to go. It is odd to be signing up for school *again*. But comforting in a way. It is good to have a goal to work towards again instead of just grind my way to work and back home again and pretend I am having a good time at it. But work sucks here for the mean time. But I only have a few weeks left and then school starts again, and I will be able to complain about that instead.
I have a TV, but I don't watch it. Purposely so. Being the summer before a presidential election, there are only two things on TV. Campaign gibberish (compare CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews/whatever to ESPN - a little scary sometimes), and Friends reruns. I am looking forward to the day when we go back to only having Friends reruns on TV. 24 hours of sitcom mediocrity a day, all channels. Nothing numbs the brain like sitcoms.
Have you ever sat and *not* watched TV? Just sat and looked at the blank screen? At first it seems a bit pointless (but still less so than when the TV is actually on), but after a bit it becomes unnerving. You would swear it is looking back at you. All you see in it is your distorted reflection superimposed on its own gray nothingness, but yet it seems alive.
It is worth a try.
I am in AK now, have been for awhile. I have been busy since I got here. Working, getting school stuff ready to go. It is odd to be signing up for school *again*. But comforting in a way. It is good to have a goal to work towards again instead of just grind my way to work and back home again and pretend I am having a good time at it. But work sucks here for the mean time. But I only have a few weeks left and then school starts again, and I will be able to complain about that instead.
I have a TV, but I don't watch it. Purposely so. Being the summer before a presidential election, there are only two things on TV. Campaign gibberish (compare CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews/whatever to ESPN - a little scary sometimes), and Friends reruns. I am looking forward to the day when we go back to only having Friends reruns on TV. 24 hours of sitcom mediocrity a day, all channels. Nothing numbs the brain like sitcoms.
Have you ever sat and *not* watched TV? Just sat and looked at the blank screen? At first it seems a bit pointless (but still less so than when the TV is actually on), but after a bit it becomes unnerving. You would swear it is looking back at you. All you see in it is your distorted reflection superimposed on its own gray nothingness, but yet it seems alive.
It is worth a try.
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