{"id":272,"date":"2006-03-03T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/03\/a-primetime-let-down\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T16:37:47","slug":"a-primetime-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/03\/a-primetime-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prime(Time) Let Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I ended up doing nothing last night. Mike got home late from his board meeting and I was already comfortably settled into my apartment and had little (correction: no) energy to take the subway to his place and then climb that mountain he lives upon (a slight exaggeration…but he is at the top of a substantial hill).<\/P>
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Instead, I cooked dinner, surfed the net, did a bit of reading, and eagerly anticipated my Thursday night Must See TV. Alas, there wasn’t much to see. The first hour of Must See TV was pre-empted by that Howie Mandell game show. Now, I will admit that I find something oddly sexy about Mr. Mandell – but I just can’t seem to get into hour-long prime-time game shows. So, I had to wait another hour for my soothing sitcoms to actually come on and entertain me (My Name is Earl and The Office). But by that point I was already distracted and didn’t enjoy them as much as I would have liked. I always thought I was easy to please.<\/P>
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Apparently not.<\/P>
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Here’s my observation of the day: I was walking along Mass Ave (Cambridge) on my way to work this morning when I noticed what I thought was a homeless man going through the heap of trash bags on the sidewalk awaiting the garbage pick-up. Unlike the homeless I’ve seen in the Back Bay, South End and Fenway who rip open bags looking for cans and botles to deposit, this nice man was meticulously untying a bag, digging through it, then tying the bag back up again. He would then move on to the next back. So responsible.<\/P>
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But then I looked closer and couldn’t tell if this was a homeless man or whether he was an earthy-crunchy Cambridge type just doing his best to save the environment by helping others recycle.  I suppose he could be an environmentally-conscious homeless man. I just don’t know. But he was most definitely not the sort of trash-digger I’ve observed in the past.<\/P>
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