Coming up for air

Wednesday, 9:40 pm

By Kate

Jul

25

2007

I’ve been totally immersed in the Harry Potter world for the last 3 days and 3 books. It’s time to come up for air and take a look around. The world is still more or less in one piece, it appears.

My television has been unplugged for the last two months, so I’ve been spared the most egregious excesses in so-called news coverage. Like the extensive coverage of Lindsay Lohan’s arrest this week. From what I read elsewhere, you’d never know that, as far as television is concerned, any other news existed. It seems as if I’m not missing much by not having the television plugged in.

The question is...will I plug it back in this autumn? I don’t know yet. You’d think that if I could get along without it for this long, maybe I could get along without it for a lot longer. Maybe a Netflix (or Blockbuster) subscription in place of cable would be a good substitute.