TV Blog

Andreya Hernandez
November 4, 2008

- This was a fairly typical day for me in terms of how much TV I watched. I usually sit down and watch whatever's on in between classes or before or after work. I don't really have any shows that i watch regularly. I sometimes try to watch The Office whenever it's on, so I was pretty excited when I stumbled upon it while flipping channels. The only thing I watched that I had never seen before was E!'s 25 Acts of Love Gone Wrong, but E! is always showing some new show that is the top whatever random things. I didn't really miss anything that I wanted to watch because I don't really have any shows that I look forward to every week. On this particular night, I was pretty much trying to avoid anything that had something to do with the election because I was sick of it.

- The only TV that I watched that wasn't logged was about an hour of Adult Swim that I watched with my boyfriend at his house. I usually don't go out of my way to watch shows online or anything. If a TV is there, I'll watch it, but if not, who cares. There are TVs on where I work, but they have to stay on sports channels, and I usually don't get a chance to watch them unless it's super slow that day. Most of the time when I'm watching TV at home, my roommate, Megan, is watching it with me, unless she has to work that night.

-Writing down all the TV I watched was pretty annoying, I'm not going to lie. For me, leaving it on one channel for at least 15 minutes was rather painstaking. I pretty much have TV ADD, so usually as soon as a commercial comes on, the channel gets changed. I do feel like i watch a lot of television, and on the day that I logged I probably watched even less than usual. ((I had a paper due the next day, so I didn't get to watch my late night shows.)) I just like having the TV on, even if I'm doing something else, especially when I'm home alone. I really don't think that these journals are very reliable, simply because it changed the way I watched TV for the one day I had to do it. I don't think that the average family leaves the TV on one channel for extended period of time unless it isn't being watched. People don't usually sit down to watch TV and think to themselves, "Okay, i have to write all of what I watch down and I have to leave it on this channel until at least 3:15..." People's minds don't work that way. When they get bored of it, they change it. Also, if people know that someone else is going to know what they watched, they might watch something other than what they usually would, or they might lie all together for fear of how it might make them look. Like me, for example, I almost didn't want to put that I had watched Full House on my paper, but oh well, I was bored and I watched it, who cares?