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Media Diary

*Bloggers note: This post is about my media consumption in the week commencing Monday March 31st to Sunday 6th April. I've had the post in draft for quite some time but just hadn't posted it.

*Bloggers note: I'm not sure how accurate to the minute this diary has to be so I'm just going to go for rough estimates for what time I woke up and for how long I watched a show etc.
MONDAY

-Wake up (around half 10 on average)

-check phone for any messages, missed calls

- turn on laptop and immediately check:
 -Facebook                         for any notifications/messages/updates mainly from friends or FMS
 -Empire Online                  for latest movie news
 -ComicBookResources   for latest comic book news
 -Hotmail                             for any messages, primarily from my bank, phone company and Dad.

-(About 11) Put on YouTube and listen to music before getting ready for the day
-Whatsapp Marc and Yasin about what time they're walking to the screening

-11.20(ish) get showered and dressed.

-11.40 set off for AMC for 12.45 screening of Under the Skin
-12.45 - 2.50 watched Under the Skin (includes running time of film and time of adverts)

-2.55 on the walk home talked aimlessly with course friends about what the hell it was about

-3.35 got home from town

-3.40 - 5.45 went swimming and to the sauna in the Aquatics Centre (time includes walking time)

-5.45-6.00 made food

-6.00 using Primewire/MadeinArgentina watched Now You See Me

-7.15 read some of Giovanni's Room

-9.30 using CuCirca watched episode 18 of House of Cards

-10.30 played basketball with flatmates (I bought a six feet hoop two weeks previously)

-12.30 stopped playing basketball to have a meaningful conversation with flatmates

-2.00 flatmates went to bed due to having uni in the morning (Dan missed his 9.00AM start again)

-waited 20 minutes for a good link of the finale of How I met your Mother to appear online.

-2.25 watched the finale of HIMYM (still not sure what to make of it, that series was all over the place towards the end)

-3.10 checked the internet for other peoples reaction regarding the finale

-3.20 went to sleep


TUESDAY

-12.00 woke up

-consulted Facebook, Empire, CBR, Hotmail and Moodle to stay updated.

-12.10 Re-watched the HIMYM finale. 

-12.50 got ready to go out. Whatsapped Marc and Yasin about getting there

-1.15 went out to cinema screening of Captain America: The Winter Soldier

-2.00 - 4.30 screening of CA:TWS 

-4.30 left the AMC and walked home

-5.10 returned home, got a call from a friend about the HIMYM finale. He was irate.

-6.30 got off the phone with my friend (our phone calls are always that long) got ready to go out.
-7.00 -7.20 walking time to get to Footage in town. Met my girlfriend there.

-Football game was on in Footage so it was packed. After game ends Tuesday night is Karaoke night. Always a laugh. Not at that point to get up myself

-1.30/2.00AM got home from Footage, went to bed

WEDNESDAY

-11.00 woke up. went back to sleep
-11.30 woke up. went back to sleep
-11.45 woke up. went back to sleep

-12.00 woke up. Stayed up

-Lazed about for most of the day with Becca, watched at least 3 episodes of One Tree Hill (everyone's allowed a guilty pleasure)
-No one was in so we played Radio 1's innuendo bingo (if you don't know what it is see here-  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nkp4c its hilarious)

-4.30 washed and dressed. Becca left. Checked all of my regular sites: 
  Facebook
  CBR
  Empire
  Hotmail
  Moodle

-4.40 watched episodes 19/20 of House of Cards

-6.45-7.15 got ready for and walked to the gym
-7.15 - 9.30 gym, swim, health suite and walk home

-9.30 -10.45 read and finished Giovanni's Room. Started 1984

-12.00 went to sleep

THURSDAY

-10.30-11.30 woke up

-11.30 checked my usual websites (Facebook, Empire etc)

-12.00 phone call off Mum.

-12.30 got ready went to the gym: walking there and back, gym, swim and health suite -2.45

-2.45 watched episodes  21/22 of House of Cards (CuCirca)
-did minor work on Unit X

-5.00 watched Reality Bites, Brave and Out of Sight Primewire

-12.00(ish) - 1.00 read 1984. Bed.

FRIDAY

-10.00 woke up

-10.15 woke up properly. Checked phone and usual sites on laptop

-11.00 trawled through YouTube listening to music and interviews and stuff like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1NS97_lHi8. This is the stuff I like

-12.00 got ready for seminar
-12.25 set off for seminar

-had a call en-route off my friend

-1.00 - 2.30 seminar, seminar ends, walk home

-watched latest episodes (as of American release) of Community, The Big Bang Theory and Suits on CuCirca

-4.00 rechecked all the usual sites again.

- 4.30 - aimlessly looked on the internet at interesting posts, movie news

-5.00 B (my flatmate) came home, chatted with him.

-5.45 got ready to meet Becca

-6.15 came back from meeting her

-6.30-1.30AM played two games of Scrabble, watched Wreck-it-Ralph, Rules of Attraction and played around 2 hours of Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii

SATURDAY

-Wake up. check phone and time (10.45)

-Watched 2 episodes of One Tree Hill got showered and dressed, went into town (2.30)

-In town for something or other, get back at 5.30

-check the regular sites for any news, latest updates

-watch House of Cards episode 23, finishing season 2. 

-7.00 spent the rest of the evening with friends.

-1.00/1.30 bed

SUNDAY

-woke up at 10.00. went back to sleep. woke up at 11.30. got up

-watched a few episodes of South Park (its either genius or awful) checked and re-checked my usual websites.

-went to the gym at 6. got back at 9 spent the rest of the evening reading 1984.

-12.30 bed

*Additional note, I also use Whatsapp more or less constantly throughout the day - in fact I'd say I use it more than texting - I didn't make a note of how often I use it because that would be almost impossible to do.

Thats my week. Real exciting I know

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