among the addictions...

i'll tell you the situation, you tell me if it's weird.

for the three days that i was sick last week (and every other sick day of late) i have been sprawled out on my couch catching up on the 31 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that are on my TiVo list. i watched approximately 24 of them. that's not the weird part yet. i had seen every one of those episodes at least twice before, with the exception of the two that were from the new season. that's still not the weird part. now, hypothetically speaking if someone were to watch a television show so much that when s/he isn't watching it the following thoughts run through his/her head: "i haven't spent any time with elliot and olivia lately, i should do that." "i wonder what munch and fin are up to?" or let's say that person has watched so many episodes so frequently that one starts to feel as though s/he knows those people. those people who are fictional characters. hypothetically speaking if that ever happened from watching FRIENDS so much that chandler's sarcasm became annoying in a way that a close friend's sarcasm might be annoying, one would have taken a break from that dvd set.
is any of this weird? i want to be sure to not blur the line between fiction and reality. but i just can't stop watching that show! they are such good detectives.

i could have been a detective.