My roommate's TV addiction.

My roommate pretty much just watches TV all day every day. He has classes two days a week, and the other five are spent soaking in sitcoms and cop shows, with two, sometimes even three, meals a day. He usually goes to sleep around 2:00 am and wakes up around 12:00-2:00 pm. He needs all that sleep so he can be awake for Netflix.

Why am I telling you this? Well, the sad truth is that he is providing a good 50% of the media I consume. Second-hand media consumption. I hear so much television through my headphones on an average day, I realized recently that it's a huge part of my regular media consumption. It's not voluntary, I don't want it, but it's always, always there. He recently configured the room in a way such that it's pretty much impossible for him to use headphones for his Netflix. His TV sits on the very top of his desk and gets Netflix from his laptop down below on the actually work-station area of the desk, while he lies in his bed, eyes glued to the screen, for hours on end. The closest headphone jack is probably on the TV, a good 10-12 feet from his head. Not that it matters anyway, he forgot his headphones at home in New York City. So here I am, writing this right in front of him, but he doesn't notice because he's watching some New York City cop drama. This blog is about media consumption, so I was pretty much required to write about him, he's one of the most heavily weighted aspects of my media diet.