Idea #8: TV

My daily priorities are to work on job applications, and hopefully also get to the gym for a little bit. That can only take up so many hours in the day. When I was in grad school, I rarely watched TV, and if I did watch a program, it was usually online.

Since I began unemployment, I realized that I can watch TV again, and in real time. For example, last night I watched Pretty Little Liars, MasterChef and Teen Mom. I was so wrapped up in bad TV that I didn't call my friend. It was just so hard to tear my eyes away. Pretty Little Liars has been my guilty pleasure this summer...it's basically a show for high schoolers, but whatever. It's about four very stylish and pretty girls (obviously) who are trying to cover up a big secret about their dead friend, while being taunted by "A". MasterChef I think just started last night, and it has Gordon Ramsey trying to find his "MasterChef" from a bunch of amateur cooks across the country. It had some cocky people, some tear jerkers, and some other people who cooked things that would give Americans heart attacks. And then Teen Mom...I had only heard about this show, I had never sat down to watch a full episode. Talk about drama! What these girls are going through with raising their child, it's pretty amazing. MTV deserves an award for the birth control it provides through shows like Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant.

Pros: Watch the shows you never had time for before. Stay entertained!
Cons: COMMERCIALS! My goodness, I had forgotten about what it was like to watch TV shows on a TV and not online with the 30 second breaks. If I see one more ad for "Eat Pray Love", I'm starting a group boycott of that movie.

TV time doesn't just have to be at night. Did you know that TBS plays 4 episodes of Saved by the Bell and 3 episodes of Fresh Prince every morning? You can also watch actual music videos on MTV in the AM, not just MTV Hits (a separate tv channel that MTV had to create in order to still play music videos...the whole goal of the company...). My parents also get 6 HBO channels and while sometimes they can all be duds, at other times, they have some good movies. I keep seeing that Slumdog Millionaire is on...of course I only see it as it is ending. But Clueless has been on a lot, and that's always entertaining.

The point of this post: Unemployment is a time to not feel guilty for watching TV. Find your new show today. =)

Song of the Day: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

Useless knowledge:
The saying: "Pass with flying colors" came from ships sailing into port.
The Pac-10 will change its name to the Pac-12.
The Girl Scouts are going to use a Plus-size model for a body image PSA. (Which I actually don't think is a useless fact)
People in the US eat approximately 46 slices of pizza every year. (My personal average is a lot higher.)