my workdays are averaging 10 hours/day right now and often involve 6am starts, my free time has been occupied with home improvement work and beauraucratic running arounds. SO basically the wait is because of other priorities. I don't think I've watched more than an hour of tv on more than a handful of days in the last 2 months.

I also had a completely different Netflix guilt over the 4th of JJuly holiday, because I had nothing to watch the whole weekend, and broke down and went to Blackbuster and got 6 movies (I don't have cable, so there is often nothing on). I felt like I was cheating on Netflix.

It was nice, though, to have movies instead of TV shows. I haven't had a movie out from Netflix in years, as there is so much TV I need to watch. Currently, I am working my way through Popular (love it), Undeclared (Like it) and MI-5 (only saw ones I had already seen). I just finished Freaks and Geeks and Dead Like Me.

You all just inspired me to finally sign up for Netflix.

my workdays are averaging 10 hours/day right now and often involve 6am starts, my free time has been occupied with home improvement work and beauraucratic running arounds. SO basically the wait is because of other priorities. I don't think I've watched more than an hour of tv on more than a handful of days in the last 2 months.

I see. I was just wondering because I only Netflixed it myself because it was part of my Oscar blitz. It sat around a bit because I thought it was going to be a downer, but I found it really inspiring and wound up liking it a lot more than I thought.

You all just inspired me to finally sign up for Netflix.

I made my students sign up this past semester. (They didn't have any books to buy and it was just easier to coordinate viewing that way.) Within weeks, they admitted they weren't always using it for class, but they were all extremely grateful that I had introduced them to Netflix.

I don't know why I've been waiting. And we're always racking up late fees, blah blah.

I downgraded Netflix to 2 at a time, but I think I'm going to upgrade back to 3. With only 2, I end up some nights movieless. (The horror.) I kept 24 Days Later for four months (so, more like 120 Days Later) , but I feel no guilt.

Is there actually a hold option?

Yup. I can't remember now if I found it in the plan options or if I actually started canceling the account and saw the temporary option. I don't think there's anything in their online help mentioning it. But dig around, it's in there somewhere; you can turn your account off for up to 3 months.

I just read somewhere that hold is on the way to cancellation. I guess they don't want cancellers to disappear, and they don't want people who don't want to cancel to put their accounts on hold.

I just finished Freaks and Geeks

Best use of The Grateful Dead in pop culture ever.