… is that it’s addictive (I’ll watch/surf over to/play five more minutes/one last site/one more level) and before you know it three hours have gone by and it’s past midnight and you’re still watching Battlestar Galactica and your eyes feel like they’ve been sandpapered and all that lost time is just ashes in your mouth.
Or maybe I’m the only one who gets overloaded on the Internet/TV and end up feeling bad about wasting my time afterwards.
I still go back for more, though. Ugh. I never feel this way when I do something else self-indulgent, like tinkering with a story or crocheting or drawing or playing the piano. Or even reading. It’s just lots of screen-time that does it.
I’m glad we don’t have any TV, but we just got a gift subscription to Netflix *tremble*.
Time to write revise. I need to balance unproductivity with something useful. *grin*
We have watched all of BSG thanks to Netflix. Love it! Part of me wants to cut it back to a smaller amount, and maybe we will once we’re done with the series. We do much better with the one hour shows than we do with full length movies.
Know exactly what you mean about electronic media . . . but I actually came to your site to say that I loved your story about Mendela Foulbane at Mindflights.com. Thanks for that original twist on the “magician’s final test” and the wonderful humor throughout.
I think we’ll enjoy BSG a lot, too. The trick is to not let it take over our evenings. 😀
We’re on the 3-discs-at-a-time plan. Any suggestions for what else to get? Kid movies?
Thanks for dropping by, Tyrean. I’m glad you enjoyed the story. I had a lot of fun writing it.
I agree that an activity (like piano playing) certainly puts me in a better frame of mind than excessive TV watching does.