Media is my life. I was defeated by Media.

September 18, 2009 stuva17

Every day my phone is used as my alarm clock and it loudly plays Lady Gaga’s “Starstruck”. I love that song! But almost falling out of my bed every morning because it is so loud doesn’t make me like it so much anymore… =]

After that I  turn my computer on, check my email and get ready for a long day at school. While I am getting ready 99% of the time I have my music on. I am OBSSESED with the songs: Down by Jay Sean, Replay by Iyaz and Whatcha Say by Jason Derulo. My roommates will tell you I have those three songs on repeat ALL the time =].

While I am going to class, (sometimes in class) and when classes are over you will see me texting. I don’t care who it is or for how long I am talking to you. If I am not texting I feel like I am not doing anything. I like to keep busy and keep my fingers moving, so texting is my favorite American past time.

When I come back to my room, there are a few days when I get right down to the nitty-gritty and get some homework done. But majority of the time I will get to my dorm; put my music on and start facebook surfing. I’ll do anything to keep myself from doing homework (i.e. the reason this is being done the day it is due).

While I am on the computer I don’t always just go on facebook (although that is my homepage =]) there are those times when I go on the Towson website and check my email, and will surf the Towson website, because I am still a freshman and I don’t know how to navigate it that well yet.

I almost constantly check my three bank accounts and my second email address, I have come to love checking to see how many meals I have left on my onecard. (Like I said I LOVE to do anything but homework.)

Specifically the day that I was tracking my media was this past Monday, and I am a diehard fan of One Tree Hill the TV series. Its 7th season premier was on Monday, so I watched an hour of One Tree Hill and then, I am a Gossip Girl addict AND that premiered the same night as One Tree Hill so I obviously spent two hours of my day watching TV and all the commercials that came along with it.

         

As you can tell by my average day of media, going without it was a very difficult challenge…

I do not have any other kind of alarm clock in my dorm room besides my phone, so I didn’t start the day off so well with no media… I woke up to Lady Gaga again… =[ and I also answered the texts that I had received while I was sleeping  =[. I was really not doing well…

But I got better throughout the day, I didn’t text ANYONE! I only read the messages that I received (does that count as not using media =/ ?)

I went through an entire day without texting and I thought I was going to die! I was always so antsy and I needed to do something with my hands so badly, I started chewing on my finger nails. That is not even a habit that I do all the time… =/

But my day somehow continued to get worse… I came back to my dorm room and it was just one of those days that I was not going to be doing homework. I didn’t know what to do with myself, I told myself I was NOT allowed to go on the computer or use internet. It was very hard coming up with something else to do. I tried talking to my suitemates, but they were all doing homework… and I couldn’t bring myself to do any. So I realized I had brought the novel “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer to school with me because I had finished every other book in the (Twilight) series and I wanted to see how it ended. I am still not done with the book but it was the one thing that I did find to keep me occupied while I wasn’t allowing myself to use the computer!  =]

I did break down though, it was 10 PM and I couldn’t read anymore, and I was going crazy out of my mind, and I turned my computer on.

I felt defeated. I lost a twenty four hour battle with media… =[

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