What I Do Instead of Blogging

In my new Management Communications class, we've been assigned to blog every week. When I first found this out, I was super excited, since blogging is already a thing that I do <sarcasm> with alarming regularity. </sarcasm> And then I proceeded to not blog.

Important Things I've Been Doing Instead of Blogging
- Doing homework/quizzes for my accounting class
- Reading my sister's first draft of a new story project
- Making lists of top ten best male voices (Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Gerry Butler, Aled Jones, Matt Berninger, Sean Connery, Jeremy Irons, Roger Allam, Frank Sinatra, Colin Firth)
- Watching Merlin
- Warring with and cursing the wifi about trying to stay connected to the secure network for more than three minutes at a time
- Catching up on the vlogbrothers videos
- Watching the Lizzie Bennett Diaries
- Finishing a chocolate bunny from Easter
- Researching ways to voluminize my hair
- Spreading my cream cheese with a paring knife because I forgot to buy butter knives
- Pretending that I know what I'm doing at the student fitness center
- Going for mountain drives with friends with cars
- Accidentally making 80-mile detours on mountain drives
- Making pancakes
- Making smoothies
- Avoiding the cold and windy outside
- Checking my grades every hour until they were all posted
- Tumblr
- Sleeping

"For she'll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper."
Leonato says that about Beatrice in the little haha-let's-tell-Benedick-Beatrice-likes-him ploy. I'm not up twenty times a night, and I definitely don't sit in my smock till I have writ a sheet of paper (or blog post). Maybe I should fall in love. Maybe that would make me enough of a lovesick romantic to sit up at night and write about feelings instead of eating uncooked Top Ramen while I watch Netflix.

I'm really not as pathetic as I sound, though. I really do have deep feelings and emotions. And I don't just sit around watching TV because it's something to do. I watch TV for the stories, and all the inspiration and feelings that go with them. TV shows are currently my favorite form of stories because of how much more can be conveyed about a story through video and how long they last. Movies are great, but they're over too soon. TV shows and miniseries are far longer, and I just love having more content. So I get into these great relationships with miniseries and TV shows, and I love them and they make me incredibly happy and I'm just overjoyed to have discovered them. But then they end. Or I catch up and have to wait for more. And that's where I am now.

Sherlock: hiatus until the Second Coming
Doctor Who: hiatus until probably this fall
Downton Abbey: hiatus until who knows when
Firefly: canceled
How I Met Your Mother: waiting until Monday for the next episode
Merlin: doesn't count because I have yet to fall in love with it
Pride and Prejudice: has been over since 1995
Cranford: has been over for years

And even when we get to non-TV fandoms, it looks the same.

Harry Potter: past its heyday, the movies don't cut it, and I don't have the books at college
Lord of the Rings: only twelve hours of content is a lot to be going on nine years later
The Hobbit: doesn't come out for ages
The Hunger Games: don't have the books; don't have money to go see the movie again

And then there's the problem where no matter what I read or watch, I always end up thinking to myself, "yeah, this is cool, but... it's not Harry Potter." Or Lord of the Rings. Or Sherlock. Or Doctor Who. Or whatever. It's the same problem that I have with choirs. I grew up with the two best choirs in the world (Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Cambridge Singers), and because those are my standard, every other choir sounds terrible even if they're really not, just because they're not as good as the MoTab.

Alright Moriah, you've been rambling long enough, now it's time to shut up