tv junkie

first, it was project runway. then, top chef, australian open, acc (so good to be back on the east coast!), and maybe top design, which started this wednesday. all this on top of the office, nova science now, and frontline. oh, and of course, pretty much anything on food network. now that we have cable, i'm watching too much tv. the tv i had in california received barely 3 channels so i relied on the radio. i could listen to kpcc all day and have done so on occasion. i know i really don't watch that much tv. 3-5 hours a day isn't that unusual, right? it just seems so excessive compared to what i had been used to. i feel like my life revolves around the weekly tv schedule. with the radio, it just stays on while i can do other things. it's much harder to work on things with the tv because it involves visual and audio concentration whereas radio just requires audio concentration. i've been unplugging the tv at the end of the day so i won't be tempted to turn it on, just to see what's on and veg. i should listen to wnyc more often, but they don't have all the programs that i used to listen to. thank goodness for podcasts, saving me from drowning in the abundance of crap tv and giving me no excuses to not be productive.