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Awhile back, cubicalgirl tagged me to do a meme about weird habits. I haven't done it yet, largely because I already did this post back when it wasn't a meme and I (obviously) liked to hear myself talk. And since I don't think it's time to start subjecting you fine folks to reruns, I'm afraid I have to refuse.
But this will make cubicalgirl mad and she may stop posting lovely little comments in my journal, most of which include a picture of her butt. So we can't have that! So here, as a small peace offering, is one extra bit of weird information about me, adapted from a comment I made elsewhere:
I consider myself a reasonably smart person in most areas, but my brain is completely incapable of remembering what channel television programs are on. I'd like to blame this on the pure stubbornness of cable providers that causes them to put "Fox4" on channel 6, but it's not all their fault. Even when I was watching broadcast TV, I couldn't remember where the networks were.
I can remember where they used to be when I was a kid in Philadelphia. NBC was on 3, ABC was on 6, and CBS was on 10. No problem.
But then somewhere along the line, just to make my life more difficult, NBC and CBS switched channels in Philadelphia and my brain never recovered. For the rest of my time living there, if I wanted to watch, for example, Cheers my brain would say "Okay, that's on NBC so it's on 3 except now it's on 10" and I'd turn to channel 10.
And then I moved to Connecticut and I would have loved to have just cleared out that portion of my brain and started over, but I couldn't. So then if I wanted to watch something on NBC, my brain would say "Okay, NBC is on 3 but now it's on 10, except now I live in Connecticut so now it's on 4." And I'd switch to channel 4.
And then I moved to Kansas City and now if I want to watch something on NBC, my brain says "Okay, NBC used to be on 3 and then it was on 10 and then it was 4 and now it's on... um, crap!" And then I usually flip through the channels until I either find it or I give up. Or if I want to watch something on CBS, I think "Okay, that should be on 10 except it moved to 3 and then it was 5 and now it's... oh, dammit, screw the show. I'm going to go read livejournal."
And it occurs to me now that I think about it that the only two current network shows I watch are House and Lost, neither of which is on NBC or CBS. I'm honestly not sure if that's a coincidence. :)
But this will make cubicalgirl mad and she may stop posting lovely little comments in my journal, most of which include a picture of her butt. So we can't have that! So here, as a small peace offering, is one extra bit of weird information about me, adapted from a comment I made elsewhere:
I consider myself a reasonably smart person in most areas, but my brain is completely incapable of remembering what channel television programs are on. I'd like to blame this on the pure stubbornness of cable providers that causes them to put "Fox4" on channel 6, but it's not all their fault. Even when I was watching broadcast TV, I couldn't remember where the networks were.
I can remember where they used to be when I was a kid in Philadelphia. NBC was on 3, ABC was on 6, and CBS was on 10. No problem.
But then somewhere along the line, just to make my life more difficult, NBC and CBS switched channels in Philadelphia and my brain never recovered. For the rest of my time living there, if I wanted to watch, for example, Cheers my brain would say "Okay, that's on NBC so it's on 3 except now it's on 10" and I'd turn to channel 10.
And then I moved to Connecticut and I would have loved to have just cleared out that portion of my brain and started over, but I couldn't. So then if I wanted to watch something on NBC, my brain would say "Okay, NBC is on 3 but now it's on 10, except now I live in Connecticut so now it's on 4." And I'd switch to channel 4.
And then I moved to Kansas City and now if I want to watch something on NBC, my brain says "Okay, NBC used to be on 3 and then it was on 10 and then it was 4 and now it's on... um, crap!" And then I usually flip through the channels until I either find it or I give up. Or if I want to watch something on CBS, I think "Okay, that should be on 10 except it moved to 3 and then it was 5 and now it's... oh, dammit, screw the show. I'm going to go read livejournal."
And it occurs to me now that I think about it that the only two current network shows I watch are House and Lost, neither of which is on NBC or CBS. I'm honestly not sure if that's a coincidence. :)