Apr 19
need…to…finish…
I am about 3 pages away from the end of my paper… just a conclusion away!!
I am drinking water and have the TV on. Without even noticing it, I’ve sat through two horrible lifetime movies already… paying about 25% attention to them. The first was about the Glen Ridge rape case that was covered in the book “Our Guys.” The one on right now is about an Amish girl who had a baby and abandoned it so it died… and is being tried for murder.
It’s a good thing I’m immune to the addictive nature of Lifetime TV movies. I’m actually pretty immune to most TV shows that “suck in” other people. I think it’s because I almost always have the TV on to provide background noise and block out other sounds in my environment. It doesn’t distract me anymore. My mother, the older of my two brothers and my sister are all prone to paralysis when watching TV. They become totally engrossed in what they’re watching - even if they’re just commercials - and you can’t even talk to them. They register that you’re speaking, but they’re not listening; they’ll just “shush” you like automatons. There’s no way to get through. It’s kind of eerie.
As for my, my father and the younger of my two brothers, I think we all function with TV as background noise, and when we’re watching, we can focus on other things like conversations, fire alarms, and the like. Strange how the halves of the family can align like that.
Well… no more for me now. I let myself rant through a [rather long] commercial break and I have to dive back into my paper and write a nice conclusion… and I don’t want to be up until midnight working on this. I can’t. The paper is due at 11:59.
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