Seriously, the past week has just been embarrassing as far reading is concerned. I had every intention of reading Gaskell's Cranford; I even brought it with me to the eye doctor's last Saturday and read a few pages while waiting to be called in. But that, my friends, is the last time I've laid eyes to page. Pitiful. Embarrassing. Sinful.
I have read, just not books. This past week I've read about 75 student essays, 45 short essays on midterms, three chapters in composition textbooks, and over 600 blog posts. I say this in the hopes you will forgive me as the previous sentence does make me look busy. And I have been. But alas, I can not lie to you; I have had time to read. I've just been using it to watch television, a rather obscene quantity of it to be honest.
NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, Castle, The Vampire Diaries, Sanctuary, Stargate Atlantis, The Mentalist, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Three Rivers, and Criminal Minds were all watched between 7 and 10pm on some night this week. That's 7.5 hours of television watching from Monday to Thursday. It would have been 10 hours, but I'm cool enough to use DVR and not watch commercials. :)
And I'm not done yet ladies and gentlemen: I still have to watch Fringe, Lie to Me, White Collar, Flashforward, and Numb3rs.
That's a total of just over 11 hours a week of television. Now, I spend about 80 hours Monday to Friday awake; 24 hours at work; 10 hours working at home; about 10 hours blogging; and obviously 11 hours watching television. That leaves 25 hours unaccounted for; time I can only assume I am actually living a life.Less tv. More books. That's really the moral of the story.
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