5 guilty pleasures
When this challenge appeared a couple of months ago, I couldn't have said. But having been unemployed long enough to rediscover some, admit some, and realize one on the phone with moriquende, HERE ARE
1) DVD Special Features: I LOVE to grab another cup of tea, wrap myself deeper in the blanket and research my future career as a brilliant actor/producer/screenwriter/special fx artist! Obviously, all movie-acting consists of 4 basic elements: 1 - learning incredible new skills in under 3 months; 2 - travel to on-location shoots of astonishing natural beauty and historical relevance; 3 - lots and lots of PRAISE; and 4 - playing video-games with your personal AD off-set.
2) 19th century Women's Brit Lit -- Viva Jane Austen! Viva Charlotte Bronte! Viva the British Leisure Class! (Hmmm...). I like to escape for a while to a world with a seemingly communal meaning and use for terms like good sense, good taste, sympathy and understanding. A clearly defined social and plot structure. Big words. Sympathetic characters, and unsympathetic characters. Sub-pleasures: reading witty dialogue out loud in a British accent; experimenting in the mirror with complicated facial displays of emotion attributed to the characters (i.e. "He looked at me fixedly: compressing his well-cut lips while he did so. Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly." -- How does that look?? I think I've almost got it.)
3) Dancing with Javier: the guilty part of this pleasure is that he has no idea how attractive he is to me when we're dancing, and that he would be scared out of his wits if he knew because he has no experience with girls and the basis of our friendship is my totally platonic relationship with all three brothers. Sigh...
4) COKE -- from the fountain, in a can or frozen, it just ain't right, but i just don't stop.
5) Not arguing when other people offer to pay for dinner, a movie, etc. I used to insist on paying for myself, even if I didn't have the money. Now I throw up my hands and say Hey, someday I'll have money to invite YOU! (let's hope)
I'm sure there are more.
1) DVD Special Features: I LOVE to grab another cup of tea, wrap myself deeper in the blanket and research my future career as a brilliant actor/producer/screenwriter/special fx artist! Obviously, all movie-acting consists of 4 basic elements: 1 - learning incredible new skills in under 3 months; 2 - travel to on-location shoots of astonishing natural beauty and historical relevance; 3 - lots and lots of PRAISE; and 4 - playing video-games with your personal AD off-set.
2) 19th century Women's Brit Lit -- Viva Jane Austen! Viva Charlotte Bronte! Viva the British Leisure Class! (Hmmm...). I like to escape for a while to a world with a seemingly communal meaning and use for terms like good sense, good taste, sympathy and understanding. A clearly defined social and plot structure. Big words. Sympathetic characters, and unsympathetic characters. Sub-pleasures: reading witty dialogue out loud in a British accent; experimenting in the mirror with complicated facial displays of emotion attributed to the characters (i.e. "He looked at me fixedly: compressing his well-cut lips while he did so. Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly." -- How does that look?? I think I've almost got it.)
3) Dancing with Javier: the guilty part of this pleasure is that he has no idea how attractive he is to me when we're dancing, and that he would be scared out of his wits if he knew because he has no experience with girls and the basis of our friendship is my totally platonic relationship with all three brothers. Sigh...
4) COKE -- from the fountain, in a can or frozen, it just ain't right, but i just don't stop.
5) Not arguing when other people offer to pay for dinner, a movie, etc. I used to insist on paying for myself, even if I didn't have the money. Now I throw up my hands and say Hey, someday I'll have money to invite YOU! (let's hope)
I'm sure there are more.