Thanks for the link! I used to have to make these myself. On paper. With a pencil and a ruler. And then color-code with highlighters. Annotated with season premiere dates, thus allowing it to be cross-referenced to the September-October monthly calendars I'd make with premiere dates written in. Oh, also early November (damn Fox with their late X-Files/Simpsons premiere dates). Sometimes I'd make one page for each network with comprehensive schedule information, and then make an integrated grid for the whole week with only my shows on it, including cable shows. The whole process is never complete until I get the Entertainment Weekly Fall TV Preview issue and finalize which new shows I want to try out. And then once I was sure I had organized all of the information I needed, I would write the television programs into my daily planner, thus integrating my many shows into my every day life. I'm not OCD or spectacularly anal or anything like that, either. On the contrary, I'm pretty damn lazy, which makes my devotion to the above procedures even more bizarre. And, in case it wasn't clear from my X-Files/Simpsons mention, I'm not talking about doing this stuff during my childhood or teen years. I'm talking about the last five years. I got started with it during grad school, when I was watching more TV than god. Than , I tell you.
Oh man - I did that too! In my spiral-bound notebooks in junior high. Teacher thought I was taking notes. We didn't have Entertainment Weekly then, but the fall preview TV Guide was, like, HOLY.
Um, all of it? I imagine the Big Dude has the worlds best TiVo player, with everything ever broadcast stored on infinite disk space for instant rewatching. ::drools:: I might be persuaded to believe in a Media Deity.
You don't know me, but you're on my FriendsFriends list and I simply had to write and tell you that I [heart] your icon. Not only was Steele my first fandom as well, but I spent the first two years of my teens desperately trying to look, walk, talk and generally be as cool as Laura Holt. I even envied Stephanie Zimbalist her late-twenties forehead wrinkles. Oh, the memories...
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Date: 2003-05-19 12:07 pm (UTC)And just how much tv does God watch, anyway?
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Date: 2003-05-19 03:36 pm (UTC)Um, all of it? I imagine the Big Dude has the worlds best TiVo player, with everything ever broadcast stored on infinite disk space for instant rewatching. ::drools:: I might be persuaded to believe in a Media Deity.
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Date: 2003-05-19 12:05 pm (UTC)And yes, I too spent my teen years Laura Holt-ing. I still have the fedora to prove it.