If you want to know how weird I am, listen to this. Here is something that interests me: I wonder if people have a pattern that they follow when they're in the shower. I do.
for instance, do they wash their hair first then use soap? do they use a towel, or one of those puffy, pink lufa things? I brush my teeth in the shower. I'm willing to bet that at least 75% of people have a pattern or routine that they use almost every time they shower/bathe. I bet that even though they may vary slightly from it, they go back to it all the time.
Do you fold or scrunch your toilet paper? I bet I can accurately predict most people I know. creepy.
But what started me thinking about this, was my Tivo or DVR habits. I recently got DishTV and with it a DVR. I started going through the schedule and recording shows and events that I thought I'd like. well, I don't watch that much tv. so very quickly, things got out of control. my DVR is filled with folders and in those folders are episodes. what is bothering me is that I feel this need or urge to go through those episodes as quickly as possible and delete them. I fast foreword through some of them. weird? it's like speed-watching. it's freakin me out!
if i am at some one's house watching tv , and they don't have a dvr to fast foreword through commercials, it feels painful. i can't believe there was a time when i sat and waited through that crap. what is wrong with me?
i am usually a bit on the messy side when it comes to organization. so why the urge to clean things up, and the satisfied feeling I get when i delete a show?
how do other people use their DVR's? I know an older couple who still watch all the commercials! maybe a habit they couldn't rid themselves of, from all the years of having no choice but to watch them. one friend NEVER deletes anything from their DVR. never. folders fill up, repeat shows are recorded, the liveTV actually runs buggey and skitchey because the hard drive is so filled that the DVR becomes a little sluggish. it's chaos.
have we become such domesticated creatures that our little habits and routines revolve around hygiene and leisure time? did that last question sound like that chick from Sex & the City? see?
and now I'm seeing advertisements for some light bulb for people who don't get out in the sun enough? WTF? what the hell does that mean? are these people so sun-deficient that these light bulbs will make them feel better, or do they just mimic some light spectrum similar to outdoor light? either way, it's messed up.
it' just seems so lame. where are the great people today? Obama? what's he done? he's the first black president, and he's only half black. great. is that all he has to do now? and history will remember him for that and that alone? he promised so much more. Where is a Gandhi? or Winston Churchill. instead we've got Tiger Woods. i do like the fact that our richest citizens are donating and giving back to society in BIG ways though. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world. it's got a 35 Billion dollar endowment. yes. with a B. Warren Buffet, often the Richest Man in the World, donated 85% of his fortune to the endowment. (for the record, i think the Saudi sheiks are the richest men in the world. they just hide their numbers and don't like that kind of publicity.)
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. i still think it comes down to meeting our 3 basic needs of food, sex and sleep. all the rest is just fluff. people starving in Africa aren't worried about falling in love, or global warming.
what an unfocused rant.
