My Morning Internet Routine

I've become a very annoying person.  I know it, I'm not happy about it, but I can't help it.

The reason is that there's a certain expectation when people ask you the following questions:

"Have you seen...?"
"Did you hear about..."
"Have you read..."

And the expectation is, "No, I haven't, please tell me about it". But the problem is, usually, I have seen, I have heard, and I did read.

I'm not bragging about this. It's actually rather sad. I should be out living! But that wasn't in the cards for me. I was meant to live vicariously through others. It's all I have.

And the fact is, I love knowing! I love knowing what is going on. Plus, I've worked on a couple of TV shows where it was imperative that I know. They drilled this into me, and now I'm like a crackhead. A crackhead of crap.

I have a pretty standard routine of the stuff I check every day in a specific order. I thought some (my mom) may have interest in it. All of this may seem pretty basic to many of you - if you're reading this blog you are clearly on the outer reaches of the internet.

I'm sure you all have the sites you love, these are mine. Here's how my usual day goes:

I wake up, and grab my phone and check my email.
Then Twitter, and I go backwards and see all of the tweets I missed while I was sleeping. If I'm going to have to be around people, I then take a shower.

As soon as I get to my computer, it goes:

Deadline Hollywood
Buzzfeed
TV Tattle
Huffington Post
Talkingpointsmemo
Gawker
Politico
Ezra Klein
Sports Illustrated
Grantland
TMZ
The Superficial
WWTD
probasketballtalk
profootballtalk
The Daily Beast
Salon
Slate
crazydaysandnights
Drudge Report
Earl Pomerantz
Ken Levine
Scriptshadow
Thebitterscriptreader
Doug Richardson's blog
Deadspin
Espn
Vulture
Mediatakeout

And then, I'm ready to start the day. But if I really want to procrastinate, then there are a bunch of other places to go. And that's when I can stumble into the nether regions where you can see people getting murdered by hammers.  You don't want to go there. Trust me.