Kleng Meedercher, Risen Iddien

My last post got very off subject. It is a problem of mine, and may have to do with the fact that I have, what I like to call, a very rich inner life. I had originally wanted to discuss my newly discovered obsession with the series Heroes. However, since that post was written about a month ago, it's no longer newly discovered and I forgot a lot of what I was going to say. And I'm bored of it. I tried to watch it a couple of days ago, and it just didn't evoke the same kind of, well, obsession (although it may have been that I was just really not in the mood). So, I just really don't feel like writing about Heroes, except to say that I think I would REALLY be happy to have a super power (and as a young/not so young child truly believed that I could do magic, which I guess is a sort of super power).

The thing about shows like Heroes (and books like Harry Potter) is that it kind of exposes the very real likelihood that other people (adults) have internal monologues that might out debate my own. It's just a nice thing to know.

I have been very bored recently. A certain friend, who shall remain nameless but is listed on the left side of my blog and has blond hair and when to highschool with me, and whose name starts with a J and ends with a Y, complained about my lack of posting. I thought about why I hadnt posted in such a long time. Then I realized that it was because I had been driven to the point where I was to bored to actually do anything. I read somewhere that a predisposition to being bored is a huge personality flaw that signals below average intelligence...which means that I probably should try not to whine about being bored quite as much as I do.

Two weeks ago I was reminded of why I went to college, and more importantly, law school: working at a job without any actual substantive duties is mindnumbing and, shockingly depressing.* My judge was out of the country, my co-clerk had the week off and I was alone. With nothing to do but answer the phone. My solution to this problem, because one can only do so much online shopping on a law clerk's salary, was to watch TV.

I may have mentioned this before on this blog, but I do not have a TV in my apartment, which means no cable in my apartment. (It's in an airplane hanger 50 miles north of me). I also do not have internet, but my neightbors are kind enough to share with me sometimes, which basically means that my apartment is the residential equivalent of a D'Lorien, allowing me to travel from the year 1940 to 2007. It's awesome.

People ask me why I don't have a TV. It's not that I have any objections to it, or don't like it. In fact, I LOVE TV. Left to my own devices (ie when I go to my parents house), I can watch it for days on end. Seriously. I have watched entire series in one sitting (the OC incident of '06 comes to mind). Therein lies one of the reasons for its notable absence in my apartment. Like an wino who cannot enter an Italian restaurant, or a chocoholic who never buys chocolate, it's really better that I don't leave myself vulnerable to the temptation of eschewing real life for the trials and tribulations of family life as portrayed on Wife Swap.

Another reason is the cost. As I mentioned, a law clerk salary is nothing like a lawyer salary. Particularly when said law clerk's pay check comes from the same budget that is currently cutting services which she previously thought were essential to the operation of a healthy community (ie hospitals, ambulances, janitorial staffing). As much as I love it, TV cannot compare to the trinity of food, shelter and clothing.

The real reason for my failure to install a TV and internet to my apartment lurks in the darkest corner of my heart. It is actually painful (-ly embarrassing) to admit. I think the reason I don't have these services is that I am too lazy to call Comcast and have them installed. It actually gives me a headache. I am too lazy to acquire the tools which are necessary to be truly lazy. Or have I evolved to the point where I no longer require such tools?

This is probably another one of those things I should not admit.

*I may need to be reminded that law is not one of these jobs if/when I am doing document review in a year or so.