no t.v week

this week is children's book week. as such, i am going to read a children's book. i haven't decided which...maybe "where the red fern grows." i'll definitely have plenty of time for reading.

as part of children's book week, charlotte always presents a program to the children at school; wherein, they each sign a contract to eliminate a portion of their television watching for the five days that comprise the school week. for example, jackson promised to watch no more than 0 hours of television this week. charlotte and i will also follow the pledge he has made. about one-third of the children in the school returned pledge sheets. charlotte seemed pleased with this amount of support for the first year of the program - especially considering that it is this school. the pledges seem to range from the "no more than 0 hours" to the "no more than 21 hours." yes, we had a good laugh over that one. what a sacrifice!!!

i would be lying if i said that we don't really watch television. we do. what we never do is watch network television in the so-called prime-time. from what i can gather, the shows featured in prime-time are crap. vapid. tasteless. morally deficient. vacuous. unoriginal. i don't/won't miss them in any way.

what i do watch much is the news...both real and fake, ie...daily show, colbert report, cbs news. i also watch alot of sports. when i am having trouble sleeping, a movie is a good source of mindless entertainment. i do that alot.

on the surface it seems like a simple thing to not watch television. that is because it is. good riddance...at least until next week.