Lost, Attitudes, The Gym, and a Better Choice of Words?

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I. Lost

Today I finished the second season of Lost. I bought it when it came out on Tuesday, September 5. After one and a half weeks, I have watched all 24 episodes. This show is absolutely incredible and undeniably addicting.

The season finale is a huge cliffhanger, but I'm glad I only have a couple more weeks until the Season 3 premier on Wednesday, October 4th. Lost is probably the best series I've ever seen on Television. The acting, writing, plot, dialogue, cinematography... everything. It's amazing.

Here is a YouTube clip of all the Season 3 TV spots strung together...

II. Attitudes

Along the subject of Lost, I've really been struggling with something. I bought the second season on DVD because, One, I wanted to catch up before Season 3 started and Two, I wanted to watch it with my parents as something we could do together.

We had watched the first couple discs together over last weekend, but this past week, one night when I was at the gym, they decided to go ahead and watch a whole disc without me. I was pretty upset. They laughed and told me I just needed to catch up. I was feeling let down and that they didn't really care that this was about us watching the show together.

So I tried to catch up. However, between school work and going to the gym, I just didn't have the time to watch a full disc in one night. Also, the whole time I'm trying to watch one or two episodes a night, they're still watching more. So I give up. I just figure I'll watch the rest of the season over the weekend.

This morning, as I'm finally on the last disc, my mom comes into my room and browses on my computer while I'm watching the last episode. As a crucial moment in the plot is revealed and the camera cuts away to a new scene, my mom says, "That's it, right?"... ... LIKE I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW. Obviously she does. She's seen it already. If I can't have the pleasure of watching it with my parents, can I just at least have the privilige of watching the episodes without being tipped off on what's going on? Man! I was so upset this morning.

Don't get me wrong. I love my parents, but I was having a really bad attitude today and the last couple days because of this TV SHOW. *sigh*... feelings.

III. The Gym

I don't think I've said this yet, but last Saturday I got a membership at the local 24-Hour Fitness here in Lancaster. This, in addition to a change in my menu, is all apart of me trying to bulk up for the winter. I've been skinny my whole life and figured now is as good a time as any to do anything about it.

The gym is an interesting place. All kinds of people go there. You've got the skinny people like myself, the bigger people trying to drop the pounds doing heavy cardio, the fit and toned people maintaining their figure, and then the super muscular i-can-snap-your-face-in-two-with-my-left-hand types of dudes and chicks. It's a whole variety of individuals. Oddly enough, I don't feel awkward of insecure lifting weights among some of the biggest people I've ever seen. Nothing weird about it...

...but this is weird... There's this guy who I see every time I'm at the gym. He's skinny, probably of latin descent, hairy, and looks to be in his late 40s. That's not what is weird about him. What's weird is that I only see him in the locker room. No where else. He's never out on the floor. He's always walking around the locekr room in just a towel going back and forth from the Sauna to his locker. It's really really creepy.

Anyway, the gym is cool. Except for Hairy Skinny Sauna Guy.


IV. A Better Choice of Words

Okay. A couple days ago I posted an entry entitled Jaffe, Epiphanies, Porn, and Continuum. Because I'm trying to get more people to read this thing to make me feel like it's worth something, occasionally, I will throw up a bulletin on Myspace.com with a plug for my latest entry. For that particular entry, I put up a bulletin with the title of "Porn!" in the subject line.

Today, I got a message from one of my friends saying,

"hey bro how's it goin...did you really need that subject title though to catch people's attention?"

...and in retrospect, I realize it wasn't the smartest thing to do. I believe I compromised on an issue of faith for me just to get more readers. I believe that's wrong. There is nothing inherently wrong with the word 'Porn'. It's the motivation and the intention behind the word that I'm apologizing for. It was a cheap way to get more traffic to this site, and that's just not right.

My bad.


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