time for tv?

who has it?

I watched Volver last night (totally weird and i am not sure if i loved it or hated it) and there was this line: "No cable from now on. We are a poor family. We will live like a poor family" (ok--this is not a driect quote b/c the movie was in spanish and i did not memorize the subtitles).

It got me thinking. I have never in my life paid for cable. I had cable growing up, but I opted not to get it in college b/c it was too expensive. We never even had it at the dogpit--where we would have split it 8 ways....I watched other people's cable and definitely watched a ton of TV over breaks--but I never really missed it.

Now, I realize that 14 years without cable/TV (i have never lived anywhere that gets the network stations either), I am a bit out of touch with reality. I kinda suck at pop culture and current events. Though there are tons of other media readily available, TV is the easiest way to absorb information.

And now, I could totally afford cable. But i do not want it. I feel like i would either spend all my time watching useless crap and that would be a waste of time OR I would never watch anything and that would be a waste of money.

I only regret that cable internet is kinda cheap if you pay for cable already. I do not know this for fact, but it seems like those bundle pacakges are a better "deal"--like buying the large popcorn at the movies is a better deal---you do not need all that popcorn, but it is only 50 cents more.

but as it is, i barely have time to watch TV on netflix DVDs--who has time to regularly watch shows? Who are these people? Where does my time go? I do not do anything but work and walk my dog---and that takes up 8 hours a day at most. Where do the other 16 go?

Maybe i should get cable so i can have an excuse for wasting so much time.