I have decided to limit myself to watching merely one episode of any given television show on any given day. I realize now, that, just maybe, zipping through entire seasons of shows in a matter of hours can't be the most healthy thing in the world. Even if the show was Dexter or Firefly or something.
It is July, finally. A lot of things are happening this month.
-A cyberwebz meeting between myself and some members of various trock bands to talk about the website I'm trying to put together. -I get my AP test scores back for AP World History. Will have to text my teacher my scores, because she seems in capable of waiting an extra month to get them herself. -Orientation. How exciting. -White water rafting with my family, because of, -My sixteenth birthday
Today is awesome because of this video, which I just rewatched.
William: I really like that picture.
Madison: Hello. I like this picture from your tumblr, but especially the "conversation" of sorts that went with it.
Tom: Every time I hear that word now, I think of this commercial. Kind of sad, but true.
And, I suggested that you were Confidence Doe, because I was under the impression that only Ningmaters could get folks' email addresses. And now I'm worried.
Elayne: Ahem, excuse me for caps lock, but YOUR VACATION STARTS IN JULY?!?
Also today: my brother left the house to go to our neighbor's to play video games for five hours straight. No big deal, even though he did leave the house wearing his flannel pajama bottoms. Whatever. But, nearer the end of that five hour streak, I decide to watch television, which, as I said before, I've been rationing.
I was incredibly busy today. I did three more scholarship applications, refined my writing skill with some short prose samples, read "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut, solved the weird math problem at the end, got back to a few trock people in regards to an approximate meeting time, wrote a song, fixed my computer, and cleaned the kitchen, after I practiced the guitar. So, of course, I'm glad when I can finally relax and choose a show at random on Comcast On Demand to watch.
But, my brother comes home with his ickle friend Joe when I'm half an hour into the show. Joe was carrying two Sony controllers. Joe's house was basically Nintendo-central, but our house is dedicated to Sony. So, after five hours flipping around on the Wii at Joe's house, they expected to come traipsing over here to play more video games of a different sort for another three hours, give or take.
Maybe I was unfair in thinking that they had absolutely no right to waltz in and try and commandeer the television for their own recreational purposes just because they were bored flinging nunchucks around. But, that doesn't change the fact that the same thing had happened last week. That time, I let them have the television. This time, I did not. They were perfectly willing to take everything, and leave me with nothing. And I didn't appreciate it.
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