Going back to university has brought about quite a few changes to my lifestyle. For starters, I seem to be drinking a hell of alot more juice now than I ever did. By ‘juice’ I mean the proper kind, fruit juice, not the carbonated water that I would usually be referring to. I don’t know, I haven’t bought any more Diet Coke since the 2L bottle I brought ran out, and getting through that seemed a chore, but when I go to the supermarket I stock up on lots of orange Juice! Right now in fact, I have a cardboard box of tropical juice on my desk and a half empty (pessimist) glass beside it.
The second change i’ve noticed is my total disinterest in television. Back home, I would often sit down in front of the goggle-box after work only to become sucked in by some crap soap. I couldn’t help it. I spent a lot of time at my computer mind, my parents hardly ever saw me, but when the T.V. was on it wasn’t worth talking to me because I was so preoccupied.
My concentration deficiency hasn’t changed, but I never seem to turn the T.V. on now, despite having to pay for a goddamn licence. The only reason I turn T.V. on is to load up a game on the PS2 – the current favourite is Pro Evolution Soccer 6 with my flatmate! I’ve missed Heroes and House probably two or three times in a row. It’s not intentional but if I realise i’m going to miss it I don’t feel any compulsion to stop what i’m doing to watch or catch up with the reruns. Maybe it’s symptomatic of how crap television programming is – Heroes and House being the exception of course – as there’s just “nothing on”. Thirty odd Freeview channels and still there’s nothing on! Geez we’re so spoilt nowadays..
The third change i’ve noticed is coffee. I’ve always liked coffee – instant coffee, Nescafe etc – but since a got a cafetiere and some ground Kenyan coffee I’ve been hooked. Sometimes, when I can’t be bothered going through the whole cafetiere palava, I make a Nescafe coffee again, but its lost it’s allure – there’s something bland about the taste. I now drink tea instead and that Nescafe jar is nowhere near finished.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:24 pm
*nods* indeed…this sort of thing happened to me when I went to Uni for the first time. I stopped drinking coke and fizzy drinks, mostly cos of the cost, and switched to Ribena and squash with water.
Right now I am having the same phenomena regards the coffee – I have nescafe cap colombie coffee but have hardly touched it and prefer the cafetiere coffee. Although I did use to drink plain nescafe but stopped ages ago as, like you say, it does seem a bit bland compared to freshly ground coffee or cafetiere coffee.
Hmm…the TV thing. I’ve noticed I tend to watch E4 – with scrubs, friends, ugly betty, smallville and other “american” stuff. I rarely watch the news at the moment and would be at a loss to tell anyone what is going on in the “real world” at the moment, erk.
I’m really worried that I will become too entrenched in studying and lose sight of a)eating at resonable times b)going to bed at resonable times c)waking up at a resonable time d) won’t have a warning that there is a hurricane on the way or some other such weather warning…lol.
Oh well, things change!
xxx