May 16 2006
TV Therapy
Working long hours + school = tired.
As a preemptive measure to stave off burn out, I made time to watch an hour of House despite the demands on my time tonight. I’m finding television viewing disturbingly therapeutic these days.
Despite my addictive nature, I have managed to limit my TV watching to House, once a week. Unless you count the occasional episode of Monk that I squeeze in on my lunch breaks with the old gang.
Time for my 8 hours of sleep therapy now. Goodnight.
A 30-something Christian girl, blissfully wedded to her perfect match (the yang to her yin) of 14 years. Living life in Hawaii, less than 5 miles from her hometown, a slave to her mortgage payment, but seeking balance in her pursuit of family, faith, recreation, and rest.
I’m finding tv disturbingly therapeutic lately too… the box with the lights is my friend. The box with the lights is my friend. The box with the lights…
Hi! I surfed in from Rice Bowl Journals and I saw your site name…champloo! I love that stuff. My mom is from Ie Shima and she likes goya champloo a lot…I can’t stand that bitter taste, though.
I’m only part-Okinawan, but I’m proud of it. A lot of our people went to Hawaii and my mom really liked it when she visited there. She said there was actually a little community, so she could speak Uchinaguchi and eat her favorite foods.
I’ve never been to Okinawa, but I’ve lived on mainland Japan before. It’s my dream to visit our island and pray to my ancestors there. All of my family (save my grandmother!) that we know of were killed during WWII, so they probably think their line is gone. I’d like to show them otherwise!
@fishlamp: TV is a good mental vacation, at least that’s been my experience. Vacations are good. Not many of us can afford to take too many, though. I guess the same should apply to our mental vacations, too. “The box with the lights is my friend” — I love it!
@Bryan: Nice to meet you, a fellow uchinanchu! You really ought to make it a point to take a trip to Okinawa. It will certainly be an experience that will touch you deeply and help you connect with your heritage. Meeting your family in Okinawa will also help to learn more about yourself and where you came from — at least that’s how I felt when I met my relatives in Okinawa! Check out our Okinawan website at http://www.internet-okinawa.com. It’s the collective effort of a few of us with an interest in Okinawa and its culture. Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment.