Watching television, eating things, and just being totally boss in general.
So for the last week or so I've alternated between doing absolutely fuck-all and being totally frantic. I'm like a border-collie puppy on PCP: "OMFG MUST DO ALL THE THINGS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE THINGS ARE AWESOME SOMEONE GIVE ME MORE THINGS TO DO *crash*". See, the biggest art gallery in town is holding thier annual art/music festival, so I've been spending half my time hanging with the art crowd discussing installation pieces, and the other half sitting on the couch in pyjamas watching reruns of things. Today is the first day that there's been no new exhibits opening, so I'm sort of at a loss. It occurred to me that I should do some goddamn exercise so that my gym membership card isn't merely for decoration, and so that the recent less-than-healthy food I've been snarfing doesn't transform me into Jabba The Hut. But then I thought "Huh. You know what I haven't done? An NCIS marathon,", and suddenly it seemed like this was of the utmost importance. Unlike Sex & The City, which I run through all 6 seasons of a couple of times a year, I've never actually gone back to the beginning of season 1 of NCIS and re-watched every episode. When I feel myself in need of a GIbbs fix I either wait for a new episode to be available online, or grab a random season from the DVD shelf and either pick an episode in the manner of Google's "I'm feeling lucky" feature, or choose one of my favourites, like Bloodbath. However, it just occurred to me that I haven't seen Tony and Ducky photographing each other on Air Force one in quite some time, and naturally, that takes precedence over my 40 minute bitch of a cardio routine.
Also, I live alone and can watch whatever the fuck I want on television, which is awesome. I remember as a teenager, this luxury didn't exist. My mother, brother and I all had TVs in our rooms, but they were tiny little ones with questionable reception and it was a gamble as to whether you'd be able to watch real channels or just ABC on any given day. My mum didn't give to much of a fuck about television, and so would usually concede defeat in all channel/dvd related disputes, but my brother and I were both equally adament that we would watch whatever we wanted, and the other could just fuck right off. I remember a night when I was all set to watch a totally important CSI episode that I'd only seen, like, four times. My brother came into the room.
Patch's brother: Patch, I'm watching car races tonight.
Patch: The hell you are. I was here first, and I'm watching CSI. Go and be a bogan somewhere else.
Patch's brother: The tv in my room won't pick up the channel for the racing. I'm watching it out here.
Patch: Well, the tv in my room won't pick up the channel for CSI, so I'm watching out here. Screw off.
Patch's brother: No. Why should you automatically get to watch what you want?
Patch: Because, as previously stated, you collosal dill-hole, I was here first.
Patch's brother: It's the tv, not a buffet. "I was here first" doesn't mean you get dibs.
Patch: So, what exactly is your reasoning for why you should get dibs? Purely because you want to?
Patch's brother: Pretty much.
Patch: Lemme think about that *thinks* Nope, I stand by my original statement of "screw off".
Patch's brother: But you always get to watch what you want!
Patch: First of all, that's not true. Second, if it was, that would be awesome, and I still wouldn't let you watch car racing. There is no logical reason why you should get your way over me.
Patch's brother: There's no logical reason why being here thirty seconds before me means you should get your way over me.
Patch: There's no logical reason for your face.
*Pause, because there really is no answer to that*
Patch: Also, if there's really no precedent for who gets television rights in a situation like this, I'm reverting back to this old classic: I'm older, therefore I win.
Patch's brother: Well, that's mature.
Patch: It's not a question of maturity, or else I'd concede your point. What I'm saying is, as a child you need to respect your elders, and that means sometimes your life will be unfair and you just need to deal with it.
Patch's brother: But I'm not a child. We're both in our twenties, Patch.
Patch: Yeah, I know - it's residual respect from when you were a child and had to concede to me because i was older than you.
Patch's brother: I never really did that.
Patch: I know, which is why you owe me. Screw off, I'm watching CSI.
At which point my mother intervened ("You are both way too old to be so stupid ... Patch is watching CSI, you can watch the car racing later" ---> this was not out of loyalty to me, but more to do with the fact that she knew I'd get in everyone's face more than my brother would), and I got to watch CSI, but it's nice to be able to do it so easily now.