Justin Wood's 4 paragraphs

I thought this project was particularly interesting in the fact that it had changed my attitude tremendously from the time I started until the end of the week. I thought it was very interesting the shear amount of my time that had been dedicated to spending time on the media, either by the internet, TV, or textbooks. Especially textbooks, but I guess that comes with the territory of being a college student.

But this exercise really put things in perspective for me when I looked back at it and noticed that I have a very scheduled day without me even knowing. I have a routine that I seem to follow to the T when it comes to checking certain websites. And all of the sites were sites that you would be purchasing items from. One of my favorite sites is called whiskeymilitia.com. Now don’t let the name fool you, it’s not a liquor store online. But this is a site that sells one item at a time; it might be a watch or some snowboard bindings. But the thing is you have to check it to see if you have any good deals on there since you don’t want to miss them. The same thing goes for craigslist and eBay. Its not that I’m crazy or anything, I just don’t want to miss a good deal, even though I might not necessarily need it. I have this routine though and it seems to be the same about everyday of the week. I come home from school or work and I sit down with my lunch and watch TV for about an hour. Then I start on my homework with the occasional break to see what is on my list of sites. Then back to work for the necessary time.

My wife and I are very avid movie watchers and we get all of our movies from Netflix, which is really an amazing site. So we never have to go outside and deal with the lines and people that are associated with going to the rental place. When watching movies you are bombarded with product placements or some kind of promotions for just about everything. And it really gets kind of upsetting; you just wish you could watch a movie in peace.

This spreadsheet though made it clear that some types of media are more prominent in my life than others and that I rarely use other types of media. The internet has all but taken over the spare time in my life, catching up on cougarfan, the news or whatever.