What's really important?

So I'm in the middle of my wake-up routine: get out of bed, pee, sit at computer and check e-mail, set away message, then do random things on computer till I have thought of something else to do. As I'm doing these random things, I thought:

"Oh yeah, the Grammys are on tonight. There are supposed to be some pretty cool performances. Maybe I'll watch that tonight."
"But Desperate Housewives is on tonight...it's Sunday. Well, maybe it'll be a rerun."
"Damn! New episode. Why would they do that? Oh well, so I'll just catch the first hour of the Grammys and then flip over. No big deal."
"Shit."
"The guy is supposed to be taking me out to dinner sometime today on his way back to school on Long Island. What if he wants to go late? Like 8pm? Then I'd miss Desperate Housewives!"
"But Daddy can tape it for me and I can watch it as soon as I get home"
"But it's not the same! Is this guy really worth missing best-tv-show-EVER? (at least, this season?)"
"Oh come on, how lame is that? Canceling a date because you *have* to see Desperate Housewives."

Then the inner conversation just gets muddy and nasty after that. But it does raise an important question that I must answer for myself:
Just how important is Desperate Housewives? Apparently it's important enough that I'd miss an annual awards show. But would I cancel a date over it? Hmmmmm.....

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