The Dastardly Distractions of A&E

Being off of both work and school for a week over Christmas holidays has led me to an interesting discovery. I will state "I am going to clean today" more times than I will actually clean anything. I was genuinely motivated to clean my apartment this week but then I realized the unrelenting distraction that is A&E.

I have watched A&E from time to time, but never with too much interest. Now... now I have discovered American Justice and Cold Case files from 10am - 12pm.

I filled my sink with hot water and suds, and cleaned dishes during the commercials. Yes, it took longer than necessary, but I had to know if Cynthia George was impicated at all in the murder Jeff Zack! Did she get her other lover John Zaffino to pull the trigger? Did she pay for his wicked fast motorcycle he may have used in the murder? By the end of the show I felt the jury didn't have enough evidence to convict John Zaffino but they did. Shows what I know. The Akron cops couldn't get Cynthia George though... Until 2005! She was convicted!!!

Then! On Cold Case files there was a serial killer who literally left his calling card at the crime scene! He dropped his business cards at one of the body dump sites... but he got away because of lack of evidence tying him directly to the murder itself. Until 1999! A policeman looked at unsolved murders in his spare time and realized that this murder had DNA evidence attached but 25 years earlier they had no way to test! So he tested against the guy with the cards and BAM! Case solved! LOVE IT!

Wow... I wonder how much cleaning I could have gotten done instead of blogging...