You know, life sucks. I work a normal job just like most people, and i generally get a day or two off per week. The tragic irony is that my days off are so much busier than my days on. I wake up, walk our dogs, and then begin a mad orgy of laundration, meal cookery, vacuumage, and other randomized chorework before settling down about halfway through the day and drawing for seven hours, because i'm a freelance artist and there's always something to be done. All while giving the dogs regular walks. The day is over and done before i know it.
If i'm lucky, i'll have enough time to slip in one episode of whatever current show i'm watching. (Right now, it's Darker Than Black.) And even then, i have to FORCE myself to sit still and watch it without checking my messages or getting up to clean something. I think i've lost my ability to zone out completely. I fantasize about spending a day off doing nothing but sitting around in unclean shorts, playing videogames, eating Hot Pockets, and watching television mindlessly. Man, does that ever sound sweet... remember television? Remember being a kid and vegging out on television for long periods of time? I'm not sure how i ever had time for that, because i must have had a pretty brutal schedule of school, doing homework, playing with friends, drawing, reading, and beating every 8-bit NES game that came within reach of my fingers. Even so, there were those languid afternoon stretches of brainless TV absorbtion, because i distinctly recall seeing many episodes of Bewitched, The Price is Right, Head of the Class, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, DuckTales, Step By Step, Saved by the Bell, Perfect Strangers, The Beverly Hillbillies, Wheel of Fortune, and yes, even some Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
....how bored must we have been to watch that stuff? Not to mention all the movies. Oh, look, Ghostbusters II is on... i've already seen it three times, but i might as well watch it again, it's not bad i guess.
Where did we ever get the time? Seems so gloriously lazy and unstructured now. I haven't even been able to start watching The Sopranos and Game of Thrones because, damnit, there is no time. I have those slotted in for 2014.
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