I'm coming to dread television this time of year

[lilfluff]

All I can say is, normally if a program broke for a commercial break every two to five minutes I'd be annoyed. But I can't bring myself to switch away from this documentary about photographs that were taken on 9/11, and these commercial breaks are the only thing that's keeping it bearable.

But I think once it's over I may well turn the television off for the rest of the day.

I thought for years before that, that I understood what people were talking about when they spoke of an event that shaped their generation. After all, hadn't I, someone fascinated by space been around for Challenger? I can tell you exactly where I was when I first heard about it. But I was young enough, and distant enough for it not to have the same force. And while there are things to get angry about with the loss of Challenger, but I didn't learn about those things until I'd had time for it to become history and not the present.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to write more than a few sentences at a time. Six years and this is all I can write before I have to turn to something like talking about how much I can write.

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[jecook]

Yep Yep.

Myself, I plan on being ass-deep in inventory audits at work tomorrow.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

I'm quite happy to have a stack of yet to be viewed (several not even de-shrinkwrapped) anime dvds, a few manga, the latest Dresden novel, and a manual for a web site framework. I think I shall set the latter item up on my site this week, and if it works well propose using it for the manga review site.

I should have plenty to keep me busy until they finish playing the documentaries.