I can stop any time I want.

It is an hour and a half past my bedtime; I have been up watching Family Guy and The Office on hulu, which I have finally allowed myself to discover. When I stopped buying cable a few years ago, my aim was primarily to save money but it was to save money on a service that I had begun to loathe for my attachment to it. Aside from baseball and the occasional date with late night off-color cartoons, I used tv as a mental babysitter because I had no idea what else to do with my time. Now that I have a few excellent ways in which to occupy myself, I am drawn back to television shows for the right reason: watching good television is a good way to use my free time.

Fortunately for me, I can watch television shows on the hypernets. This allows me to spend fourteen hours at school and still relax for a few hours at home in front of tv episodes of my choosing, with the guilt-ridding advent of commercials, plus pausarewindability! Of course, I will eventually exhaust the (currently epic) backlog of episodes of Family Guy and The Office, but by that point, we will be at least another season into House and many other shows that cause me to wake up in the night, gasping for the air to exclaim "why haven't I been following this stuff?"

The lesson is not that I have finally been delivered unto free television; it is that I am again willing to accept it as a part of my life. Blissfully, I haven't the room in my budget to consider whether or not I should subscribe to cable and I don't think my roommates are terribly interested in the idea anyway.

School news goes as follows: We had a physics test today. I did well except for one problem on which I totally dropped the ball after second-guessing myself into a corner. I'm not worried (which, if you have been playing along at home, is the greatest success). Linearity is still incredibly interesting. Numerical Methods gives me the mental equivalent of those Elmira College soccer practices: I often want to cry during them but now and then, I do something to impress even myself and after a few days, I feel like I can accomplish things I didn't feel up to a week before.

Go to bed.

Make your lunch first.

Okay.

Okay.