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dreams and scary advertising
Oct. 17th, 2003 08:47 amWhy do I keep having dreams about violin stuff? When I was in high school I always had dreams about orchestra, but it's coming back now. A while ago I had a dream where Dr. Lamkin didn't show up to our concert, and I went backstage to find him and when I came back the orchestra had started playing without me and someone was sitting in my seat.
Last night I dreamed that I was going to play a solo and I went to the wrong building, only to find out that the right building was miles away, and I didn't have my piece memorized, and I was going to be too late to fill out some sort of paperwork I had to do for it. It was kind of scary and woke me up at 4am.
Anyway, completely unrelated: there's this really scary ad that's showing up on CNN's offbeat news right now (I won't bother trying to link to it because it's rotating) for a diet thing. It says "#1 NY Times Bestseller, "all the rage among the body-conscious", The South Beach Diet Online, No exercise! No cravings! No forbidden foods! Lose 8-13 pounds in 2 weeks! Visit southbeachdiet.com"
That's not the scary part. The scary part is the picture to go with it, of a girl wearing what appears to be a tank top and low-rise boy-cut underwear, holding a measuring tape around some point below her waist. The scary part? She looks like she's 12 years old.
12-year-old girls are sensitive about their weight enough as it is, and I really don't think it's healthy to have them going to dieting websites and other crazy stuff.
Last night I dreamed that I was going to play a solo and I went to the wrong building, only to find out that the right building was miles away, and I didn't have my piece memorized, and I was going to be too late to fill out some sort of paperwork I had to do for it. It was kind of scary and woke me up at 4am.
Anyway, completely unrelated: there's this really scary ad that's showing up on CNN's offbeat news right now (I won't bother trying to link to it because it's rotating) for a diet thing. It says "#1 NY Times Bestseller, "all the rage among the body-conscious", The South Beach Diet Online, No exercise! No cravings! No forbidden foods! Lose 8-13 pounds in 2 weeks! Visit southbeachdiet.com"
That's not the scary part. The scary part is the picture to go with it, of a girl wearing what appears to be a tank top and low-rise boy-cut underwear, holding a measuring tape around some point below her waist. The scary part? She looks like she's 12 years old.
12-year-old girls are sensitive about their weight enough as it is, and I really don't think it's healthy to have them going to dieting websites and other crazy stuff.
