Media Diet

After three days of "watching my diet" of media, i am wondering seriously if i actually should be calling it a diet. In the past three days i have gorged myself on media. Without including text books and class homework, i might consider my media consumption morbid obesity. I am constantly on facebook around 3 hours total for this three day period. Because of the snow day i had a ton of extra procrastination time. Instead of being productive i of course watched 2 movies in one day, and 2 other movies on the other two days i was counting. 4 movies total in a 3 day period. YIKES! My roomate and i watch about an hour of TV before we go to bed. During TV watching time, both of us are one our computers surfing the internet and watching youtube ( im an excellent multitasker). All of this consumption does not even include the 7 journal articles i read and the two other movies i watching in that time period. I think that my media diet might be slightly different than most college students. I make time for media sometimes over school work. School work is incredibly important to me, but i can not step away from my passion for movies and television. I love movies probably the most out of any other form of media. I watch them as a way to relax. In a weird way they actually motivate me to do homework. I know i can lay on my bed with one of my favorite movies in and do my homework at the same time. Probably not the best idea, but it gives me the feeling like homework isn't a punishment. I can have both my passions and obligations satisfied. I do think i could cut back on all of my media consumption. If im not watching a movie or television music is definately my next option. I actually tried for one whole day to avoid media all together. It scared me how consumed i was in media. Its like a drug and if i don't have it i panick. It was even harder to avoid it for one day. I CANNOT run without music, i cannot sit in my room with out the tv on, and i can not even look at a computer with out the urge to check my email or facebook. And everyone around me is consumed in it too. The TVs in the wellness center are always on, and in order to write papers and "make the grades" in class i HAVE to read journal articles. I think the important thing i learned from this media log, was that having media in my life is in no way bad or detrimental. It can be if i am not careful and do not budget my time and sort out my prioreties. I can not dhowever ignore the impact that media has on my life, and how it has shaped me and taken its place as a passion that i cannot live with out.