This 2005 season has turned out to be quite amazing. I never expected there to be much to watch this year especially since television has been rapidly declining in the past few years. It seems however that thanks to Lost and Desperate Housewives, television has been given new life and this season has lots of great shows. In fact we are a couple of months in and there have been surprisingly few cancellations.
I did my usual magic and managed to fit everything old and new into the schedule. This is officially the most packed television season I have ever had. I watch 45 different shows on a weekly basis amounting to 55 hours per week. I have to watch whatever I can live (3 hours each night) and tape and download the rest.
I never thought it would happen but I am growing tired of watching television. This is because I just don’t have the time to keep up with so many shows. Between 55 hours of television per week, work, and household duties, I have little time left to do all the other things I need to do. I have projects up the ying-yang being neglected, some of which are critical if I want to apply to a computer related job.
Further compounding the situation is that I am finding it difficult to simply listen to the shows while working on other things as I often do because the shows are just so good/complex/and so on; I actually have to sit there and watch it. Because I have little else to do while watching these shows, I find it excruciating to just sit there for hours on end; I need to multitask.
So now I find myself watching these shows each week, enjoying them but also waiting anxiously for them to be over. By the time I get through them all, the week is over and I have to start the whole process again the next day. It feels just like work.