This addiction can be rather tiresome though.  Every September I have to write out a television schedule for all the shows I plan to watch for the season.  That's right.  I have to make a schedule.  I watch more television than anyone I know.  And each night I run around shoving tapes into the two VCRs in my house and upstairs at my cousin's apartment if it's a really hectic night.

Don't believe me?  Okay, on Mondays at 9pm, there's 24 on Fox, Las Vegas on NBC and Everwood on the WB.  All three hour long shows and I manage to watch all three of them every Monday.  How?  Well I'm taping two of them and watching the third and around 1am when nothing's on that I want to watch anymore, I watch the other two shows.  As well as everything else I taped that night.

Calculating my TV viewing I think I average about 25 hours of television a week ... and that's just counting network prime time.  Not at all including my daytime viewing, Passions, All My Children, General Hospital and Oprah and not my Saturday morning cartoons either ... hello YuGiO!  Nor my Saturday afternoon syndicated shows, like Mutant X.  Or the weekend movies.  Or the shows I watch on cable.  Not Carnivale, not The L Word, and not my That 70's Show reruns, or my addiction to VH1 ... which I may delve into sooner or later because seriously ... how fucking awesome is the I Love The ...  series?  And who knew Hal Sparks was so damn funny?

I love television so much that I launch personal boycotts of shows and networks when they fuck up and piss me off.

CBS ... I had a two year boycott of this network.  I refused to watch anything on it after they canceled Wolf Lake ... a show that was only on for seven episodes, but I thought it was that good.  Also I hated CBS for daring to go up against Friends, with the second season of Survivor.

I don't care that you're in this to make money.  Friends was my favorite show, so don't you big asshole conglomerate Viacom, dare to put your frigging reality show up against it, trying to draw it's viewers.  I'm all for competition, but to endanger my favorite show?  Fuck no.  Down with CBS!  Be glad that you got Joan of Arcadia because that's the only reason I'd ever return to your shitty network.

Now my new boycott is against Gilmore Girls.  That's right, I refuse to watch it anymore.  It was one of my top five shows, but no more.  I can't stand Rory and may she burn in the fire of a thousand hells, for what she did to my sweet, tall Dean.  I'll tune back in if Dean returns and she crawls to him begging on her hands and knees.  Or if Lorelai ends up with Christopher ... either is good for me.  Well not really because I really want Lorelai to end up with Christopher.  I can't stand Luke.

I guess so far my addiction doesn't seem too out there ... right?  Ha ... trust me it is.  I cry, and get insanely furious if I miss an episode of one of my favorite shows.  Yes, I do.  And after missing that episode I can't watch the others until I've seen that one.  I cannot watch a show if I've missed an episode.  There's nothing I hate more than to be watching a show and knowing that I missed something vital in the previous episode.  That makes me sick to my stomach.  Seriously it does.

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