Day III

Sweet Media Freedom!

well, last night my family did put up the Christmas tree and we did have music on. Its hard to go against tradition when you have young children. Luckily, I had two papers to complete and it took up the remainder of my night.
I have to admit the feeling of giddiness hit me early this morning because I realized I wouldn't have to restrict myself from sorts of media any longer. That meant I would be able to listen to music and watch TV and search the internet. It almost compares to a kids being able to spend a large sum of money in a candy store in my deprived state of mind. The only draw back would be that my school classes would delay two of the fun choices. I found myself thinking back over the last 72 hours of this project and the shocking truth that was revealed to my inner self. This project made me realize that I an indeed reliant on modern technology and the progress of media. Its hard to swallow the fact that I have tendencies I associated with people I considered to have introvert habits. Many of the social networks have the allure of allowing me to socialize when my schedule allows for it. I can go out to dinner and still catch up with friends all over the globe within the same night. I realize now the thought of resistance to a convenient media seems unrealistic in my own opinion for my life. Communicating with others in class made me feel better that I was not the only one feeling different levels of anxiety or relapse during the 72 hour period. We all seemed to agree that taking away media would make a very interesting reality show. Although that reality show would be the one show I'd never think twice for auditioning for!

Day THREE!!! YAY

I woke up around noon and was awoken by my dad who was telling me of the football scores. I told him that I could not watch the games, but I did have to cheat when the New Orleans Saints played. The game ended with the redskins missing a field goal and then Fox Network cut it off to show the beginning of the Cowboy’s game, so I used my phone to look up the score to find out what happened. I couldn’t resist because the football game was good. I didn’t get anything done during the day cause I was feeling kind of lazy, and I had already done everything I had to do around the house and for school on Friday and Saturday. I had to go to work at 5. The drive to work in silence was fun, so I sang my dance party mix which consisted of Miley Cyrus and he Secret Handshake. It was busier than I thought it was going to be and I talked to a lot of customers about the movies they just saw or what they were going to see. I work near a movie theater so I get a lot of those kind of customers, a lot of them said that "The Blindside" was really good. I got one phone call from my mom and I didn’t call her back cause it was not an emergency. I am proud of myself because I only cheated once to watch that football game which was worth it. With everything said and done I am very pleased with myself. I got a lot of songs stuck in my head that I couldn’t listen to, but I did hear some music through the music player we have at work and now I’ve had enough of Christmas music.

Day 3

Day 3 December 6, 2009

Day three was not so bad. I woke up and had breakfas with Gerardo's family. After breakfas i went and laided down for awhile until everyone was ready for church. On the drive to we didnt listen to music, his parents dont really listen to music in the car in the first place, instead talked about mostly the weather, and mine and Gerardo's trip to Guam.

Mass was really good. The songs were really beautiful and the choir was gave me chills. Im not Cathloic though i am thinking about converting. After church Gerardo his mom and I went to the mall for a little more christmas shopping. After about a few hours and not too much success, though i did get a dress for Gerardo's Christmas party.

After we got home, we went straight to cooking. It was alot of fun, me and Gerardo made some ginger bread cookies and decorated them all cute, and then we made a ginger bread house, and then we baked a cherry coconut cake. His parents made the ham, mash potatoes and veggies. His sister and her family came over and we had alot of fun joking around, we kind of upset his mom with some of the jokes, but im pretty sure she got over it. I hope so anyways.

After dinner we exchanged our gifts. Everyone was really happy with what they got, after opening the gifts it was time to head home for the long drive back to San Antonio. We did really good talking on the way home again, though i did fall asleep and Gerardo turned on the radio, but again he played it very softly.

Over all i think the project wasnt as hard as i thought it would be, though i did break some of the rules. I did realize how much i do rely on technoloy, but i know i do let it control me, and my life.

Day Tre

The damn day three...I woke up at 9:30 showered and played my guitar until 10:50ish walked to the bus stop rode it to Vista dropped off my final then took the bus back home. I walked in my room and played my guitar for the last hour. I pretty sure when I’m done with this I’m going to play my guitar for a few more hours then watch Step-Brothers because I haven’t seen it and we just got it. But I really did like this project! I mean it honestly showed me how pointless text messaging truly is. Also it totally illustrated the concept of detaching from modern day vices. That was the kicker for me I loved it. It’s a sense returning to your roots in a way.just enjoy life for what it has to offer and be okay with it. As much as I tried my hardest to not listen to my music I just couldn’t do it. I apologize for the sake of the project but it only made the detachment of the other media devices more of an introspective learning process. So over all I thought this project was the best utilization of outside the classroom processing to teach a class. Kudos Prof. Lopez

free at last! day 3

I couldnt be any more excited for day three to be over with! My urge to get connected to all of my peers through different forms of media was at its breaking point. haha Thats a little dramatic of me but this task was definitely hard for me to overcome. Sunday was my day off from both work and school so i knew i had to make a plan to get through the final day. I had my P.I.C (partner in crime) stay over night with me that way he could keep me distracted because sundays are always my "lazy surf the web" days. Well we woke up around noon and just sat around the house talking about the night before and just discussing our favorite gangster mob movies haha we eventually decided that blow, american ganster and good fellas were definitely at the top of the list. Anyways we did a little cleaning up then ate some barbacoa my mom bought for us. After that we got ready and headed out to Victor's (my p.i.c) house and i sat there and watched him play call of duty (which i did NOT Participate in). Once we were done there we went to old navy to buy me some boots then headed back home to start making dinner. After dinner we decided to be lame and take a silent drive around downtown to see the lights, which only made us depressed because we realized we needed to amke our realtionship with our "significant others" better before christmas time rolls around haha.. well after that we killed some more time as as soon as 12 am rolled around we couldnt be anymore excited so FINALLY get to log onto my "facespace" and start talking to everyone! We even went over board and started calling people on skype haha! So after we chatted with some friends on skype we picked up another friend and went to eat at taco cabana and i was SO overjoyed because i was listening to the radio FULL BLAST the whole time.. i definitely had media withdraws haha. well this assigment truely opened my eyes to alot of things and i realized that i have already been sucked in to this generation of technology and to get away from it is the most difficult task i ahev been assigned thus far.

Day 3

Day 3 was defiantly the easiest of all the days.
I didn't get home Saturday night, or Sunday morning if you will, until around 4:30. I didn't even wake up the next day until 2 in the afternoon, so the day went by extremely fast.
I didn't have to work, so I was faced with the question of what to do. I didn't feel like going out so I started reading this book called " The Beautiful Miscellaneous," its an OK book, it just started getting interesting. While I was in my room I was tempted by the sound of " Transformers 2" playing in the other room on my gargantuan 65 inch TV equipped with a Bose system, but I managed to refrain.
So most of the day I spent immersed in my room, either playing guitar or reading. The only time I gave in was when I watched ESPN for awhile to see who won, and a couple of minutes of the Vikings game, they got owned, but that was it.
I Think I did pretty good, I only watched TV at my house once during the whole experiment, and I defiantly got out more because of this. So all in all, It wasn't a bad experience,it reminded me of when I lived in Playa Del Carmen, and had no forms of mass media so I would go get in trouble all day.

day 3

So the last day was easy, aside from a little bit of televison. I woke up to my grandpa step grandma three uncles and my unts saying hi to me while iiwas still in bed haha they came to see our new house and had to come to my room first. They came early in the morning and didnt leave till 7.....so wonderful!!! My whole day was spent helping out my mom cook and sitting around with my dad and grandpa bbq (by the way he made some fabulous ribs and steak) I played three games of scrabble and lost each one but i was ok with it because everyone i played with are scrabble champs and know huge words that i cant even pronounce, it was alot of fun though. Staying away from social networks, my phone(which sat in my room all day), music, and movies was pretty easy and fun. I got alot of family time in and getting to know whats going on with them and telling them how life is with me is to me so much better than being involved with everything and everyone else in the world. However i did watch the cowboys game because my dad and brother got me into football so uch now i cant stay away from it, except for the cowboys made me turn it off the last ten mintues because i was upset and just didnt want anymore tv haha but overall i did good my last day and actually enjoyed it.

Day 3

Day 3 at last, I have to say I was looking forward to this day. I could handle the first day, then day two was harder, and day three was even harder. My Sunday consisted of me waking up sick as a dog. I woke up with a horrible sore throat and congestion. I woke up and looked at my phone and had more text messages and missed calls. I gave in and read some of them. After reading my text messages I took a shower and yes it was hard not to listen to music, but I told myself only one more day. I had to go to work so I got ready. I got in my car and my radio was already powered off, I remember thinking I just want to listen to music. I think this was probably one of the hardest parts of the project. I just hate driving in silence. I had the will power and drove without the radio; thank God I don’t live far from my work. Then to top it off they usually play good music at work, but now they are playing Christmas music. I can’t stand Christmas music, I finally get to listen to some type of music and it’s a kind I dislike. I think I would rather deal with the silence ha. When I was at work my phone kept vibrating, and yes I gave in and would check to see who it was. If it was someone that I wanted to talk to, I gave in and read the message and would text back. It was kind of funny because everyone was like are you okay, I haven’t heard from you. Everyone probably thought I dropped off the face of the earth. Although, I am glad this project is over, it really gives you time to yourself. I never noticed how much of my time goes to these media devices, when I could be doing something productive. I actually got to hang out with my family and it was fun. I got a good amount of studying done this weekend and I just had time to think. I didn’t realize how attached I am to my cell phone and ipod till this project.

yay day three!

Now I can finally watch TV without feeling bad. This project made me realize that I depend too much on mass media, television is general. When I watch TV, I usually spend a great deal of time watching many sport games or even ESPN. The athletic games are just so tempting to watch; I like the anticipation of what’s going to happen, or who is going to make a play that is impossible to reenact.


Yesterday I didn’t have too much trouble with the mass media. I spent most of my time studying for my finals, so not using mass media helped out a whole lot. When I woke up, I took a shower and got ready to go eat with my parents and boyfriend. After spending quite some time at the restaurant, we all went back home in time for the Cowboys game (No I did not watch the cowboys game). While they were watching the Cowboys game in the living room, I went to my room to study. After several hours, I ended up taking a break, usually I turn on the TV and start flicking through all channels, but I told my boyfriend that we should go and play some basketball. I hadn’t played basketball in a while so I didn’t start off playing too great. When we were done playing basketball, I went back home to take another shower, and afterwards I continued studying. Sundays are my studying days, so not too much excitement really goes on.

I do not like being deprived of mass media, so I probably wouldn’t go through this again. Now that this project is over I could maybe devote some of my time to outdoors instead of staying glued to the TV for hours.