Staving off homesickness
From email written a couple of weeks ago:
On 11/04/06, skittledog
> But not so much yes because of the country itself but yes because chezbob is
> home and has american tv.
Well I can see why you'd think that but tv is more a sympton of a
problem than a reason to like being somewhere. I cope fine without a
tv. I am here in Japan without a tv. I was in Oxford without a tv.
What I don't like is missing tv shows because I get so invested in
them. But as long as I am able to one day see them (and don't have
people making me too jealous because they can see them when I cannot!) I am fine.
No, the problem is that I am living alone. At home and at university,
I was used to people being around for tea/coffee and chat (or just
silence… tea/coffee in silence works too often accompanied with
reading or doing crossword puzzles). But chezbob is just for me and I
don't enjoy the silence. So when I am at chezbob the tv is always on.
It does not have to be watched, it just has to be making a noise.
Just thought I should set the record straight.
posted by keppet @ 1:45 AM
16 Comments:
That looks like a rather big place for one person, it would probably get to me as well... but I find it funny that it looks so English.
Anyway, I actually wanted to comment on the extraordinary amount of VHS tapes you have. Just wow.
Mr Ata has gotten me into the habit of leaving the TV on when I am not watching it. Sometimes even when I do not intend to watch it. Just for background noise.
That's because it is English! It's Home home.
It's a very pretty house. Lovely and homely.
And yes... many many many videos! Wow.
Damn, your house is gorgeous.
I still love that video pic. Heehee.
I think it is gorgeous too... Legend has it that I chose the house myself when I was two. And I chose my room. It is under the eaves and has a sink in it. It is over a hundred years old (obviously) and the second house to be built in my road (which was a rocky track until the owners of the houses in the road clubbed together and paid for it to be surfaced when I was about 6).
In the storm of '87, a monkey puzzle tree fell on the house and punched a huge in the roof above the master bedroom and also in the bay window area. Fortunately the tree never made it through to where my parents laid.
We had a monkey puzzle tree come down too...might have been in '87 although I don't remember (it wasn't anywhere near as bad in Scotland...we moved a few months earlier, heehee). Well, it wasn't our tree, it belonged to the big house next door, and just fell harmlessly in their woods. But we got lots of chunks of it to burn on our fires - that tree lasted us for years. The pointy-leaf-things go pop very satisfactorily when burnt.
*sets a Rian trap*
Obviously Keppet learned to understand physics whilst stacking VHS. Rian is amazed at the balance.
Hah. Caught one.
Lovely house, by the way. *grin*
No one notices the lie? If my tv addiction is a symptom of living alone and needing company, why do I have so many videos spanning my entire life (you may assume that the Disney was from when I was very young)?
Because we're always alone...
Heehee. Sorry.
Oh, Home home. That makes more sense.
*points*
That's the outside of that beautiful bay window that we saw the inside of in that family photo you posted, isn't it? asked the grammatically-challenged myo
Gorgeous house ! how lucky you are to still live in the house of your childhood (or to be able to return to it). *nostalgic thought*
To me the house makes me think of the "charmed" sister's house in San Francisco... or Stephen King's house in Maine.
But still. I love the house.
I admire too the balance in your videos and dvds. (peep show?) *lifts an eyebrow*
No myo, it is the bay window where the tree was placed at Christmas. The family picture was at another house.
Peep Show is excellent, nadine. A show told from the point of view of two men. We hear their thoughts. They are often rude, crude and, more to the point, downright weird. I like weird.
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