everything will be alright

Last night while watching the Oscars I was thinking about movie watching in general, and my lack of it lately. I think this year's Oscars was the worst ever for me in terms of having seen nominated movies - Moneyball was the only one of the nine Best Picture nominations I'd seen and I think the last Harry Potter movie was up for a technical Oscar or something, but other than that I hadn't seen any of them, I don't think. The whole Oscars in general got me thinking back to the Oscar pool Yahoo used to host and how we'd always do them each year in Law School, having a viewing party at Jillian's place, it was always a good time. Back then I would have seen most if not all of the big pictures, but things have certainly changed.

These days I hardly watch movies at all, it seems. Even my formally frequent forays to the theatre are more and more infrequent lately. I still pick up the odd Blu-Ray or DVD (being a video snob nonetheless I go with the former when I can, but still don't mind DVDs for TV shows) but you should see the stack next to my TV alone, ugh. I've been better lately, as part of my global media initiative to consume what I have before buying more, but even with that working well for books, CDs, TV shows, and video games, it's not really working with movies. I just don't watch them.

A big part of it is this: for some reason, I'm always telling myself I need to do more. I need to be mutlitasking. Why sit back and watch a movie when I can put on a hockey game (which, thanks to the NHL Network, there's virtually always a game on every night), listen to music, all while either writing on the computer, chatting with people, or playing a PC game? I can do 3-4 things at once instead of just one, so the choice is obvious, right? I've broken through that line of thinking somewhat with reading, as every now and then I'll just read instead of doing a bunch of things, but that's reverted back to being a bedtime thing; that's how I wind down at night, unplug myself and read for awhile before sleeping. I haven't sat down and read just because I could since, oh, a few weeks ago when I powered through the first Hunger Games book, which ironically enough I did in anticipation of the movie, heh.

Does anyone else feel this way sometimes? Like you have to be doing all that you can in your free time or else it's a waste of time, that you're not maximizing your potential? I'm wondering how much of it is influenced by the world we live in today, where you can always be plugged in thanks to cell phones, tablets, wifi, 3G, etc., and how much of it is my own way of thinking. It's a question that comes to mind all the time lately, about whether I'm doing enough or if I should be doing more, or am I doing too much as it is? Just food for thought, I guess, which came to mind last night and I figured I'd throw out here just to see if anyone else has ever pondered the same thing.

So I just ordered Walk The Line (2 disc widescreen collector's edition), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (also 2 disc widescreen collector's edition) and a copy of Herodotus' Histories (hey, why not?) from Amazon.ca. I did a bit of a double take after submitting my order and it said I was all done. I must've asked it to save my credit card info by mistake the last time, because I don't do that. Ack! I can take it off, but that was a bit offputting to know they still had it from our last transaction. It'll all ship together on Tuesday, when HP is available. They can ship separately as available but if you choose that option you don't get the free super saving shipping option that comes with purchases over $39. All I really wanted was Walk The Line, but I was going to get HP anyway, and shucks, why not toss in a book too? Oh online shopping, you are so bad for me. Yet so good!

I didn't get up until, like, after 4pm today, yikes. I was up pretty late, which is the norm for the weekends, but a few hours after I woke up and was sick. Boo to that. I think I'm ok now, though I've got a bit of a headache. And of course with all this extra rest, I bet by the time the Oscars come on I'll be all "WOO! OSCARS!" and stay up super late to see it all. Even though I haven't seen like 95% of the movies this year. :/ And that'll mean tomorrow will suck at work 'cause I'll be so tired. What's that? Pessimistic, me? Never! :D;

I also bought a couple of magazines yesterday too, just for the CDs / DVDs that came with them. The new PC Gamer has a DVD full of demos that looks awesome, since a few of the games on it I've been tempted to buy. Especially this Star Wars one that looks cool. :D And the new Guitar World has a CD in it that shows you how to play Crazy Train, and the tab's in the book. I have other books with the tab, but I want to see what the video's like. I can play most of the song, but the last part of the solo is so. Freaking. Hard. I'd give anything to learn how to play it right, and I hope this will do the trick. But yes, I should actually use these things now that I've paid for them, rather than pile them in the corner and forget about them. >.>

Well, that was quite the show. I don't think I really enjoyed Chris Rock as a host though. :/ Oh well... and what was with Beyonce singing 3/5 of the songs for Best Song? That was kinda weird too. o.O

It's been a good weekend, managed to get a lot done. I even have some letters ready to send out, though not as many as I'd hoped. But I'll continued to work on that tomorrow! I also ripped a lot of my own cds onto the computer, which is good. Soooooo many albums on here now, it's not even funny. I love my new computer, though it's a year old in March so I guess it's not really that new any more hehe.

I can't believe that it's almost March already. This year just seems to be flying by for me, holy teh crap. And March is a busy month for birthdays, I swear 95% of the people I know have birthdays in March. I need to pick up some cards and get them ready, methinks.

Anyway, yes. Bed. *reluctantly lets go of the last remaining bit of the weekend* :/