Remember when you were in High School and you had Movie Time? Remember how much you loved it? Remember how much you looked forward to it? How you would drearily get up for school that day, only to remember that you had Movie Time and all the sudden you're whistling as you were getting dressed . . . In fact, let's stop this "used to" charade and admit that we still love it. In my *seriously mature Master's Program just two weeks ago, my teacher announced Movie Time and I had to squelch the desire to cheer aloud.
The funny part is that, most of the time, you're going to be watching a video with educational value . . . like a class boxed in a TV, so why do we feel it's escape time? Maybe it's the fact that the TV can't randomly call on you when you are zoning out or passing notes. Maybe it's just a nice reprieve from the daily drone. . . or in my case it could be that the TV can't stick a toilet plunger on your head like my 9th grade science teacher.**
Anyway, think of this as Movie Time on Esther's Blog.
I love this video. You should watch it.
Thank you Joy Nash for making it and Sarah Hammond for first passing it along to me.
*These descriptive words could possibly be slightly misleading and/or more or less untrue.
**True story. Just note that the plunger was purchased solely for the purpose of plunging heads and not toilets.
just so i'm not a tease
3 hours ago
4 comments:
"Choose 2 thin parents. Ideally, choose 4 thin grandparents as well." I LOVE it!! Thanks for posting this Esther. I think that self-worth and self-acceptance are two traits sadly lacking in our culture. Move on! We've got lives to live! So true.
For the record, I don't think the girl in the video looks "fat". She's just not rail-thin.
Yeah. That's the sad part. She's considered obese per our health care system. That's one of my issues with the "Obesity Crisis" newsflashes. They broadcast all these people in lumpy/frumpy clothes and the extremely high outliers. . . . when in reality the "Obesity Crisis" is referring to people like her and myself. . . and we get barraged with the discrimination and biases from the media, our doctors, other people, etc that most people assume don't apply to us. That's why I keep blogging about it. I want people to know just how far down the scale they are discriminating.
Great post...and I love "Movie Time" too! Joy's ideals are pretty solid and I enjoyed listening to her rant. I never really thought about something she brought up, which is, the perspective of her body being the automatic issue instead of other elements about her or issues with the other person. It seems fairly elementary, but the concept certainly enlightened me.
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