brekkie and Tate

[miriam_e]

Wow! I prefer to have breakfast while watching video on my computer -- the time feels less wasted that way (I hate having to eat). This morning I re-watched my all-time favorite movie: Little Man Tate. What an amazing movie that is. Brilliant!

Not only are all the performances and the story perfect, but Jodie Foster did a masterful job of acting AND directing it.

I didn't intend to watch the whole thing again. I wanted to see the object Fred makes out of pencils, erasers, and rubber bands... but I was totally sucked in again. That's certainly the mark of a great movie.

Tate is uplifting, funny, enlightening, shifts your world-view, and has no bad guys, weapons, or car chases. What a pity there are so few of those kinds of movies.

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Re: Long Breakfast

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh :)
No, I'm a very slow eater. It takes me almost an hour to eat a simple bowl of oats (I finished before the 1½hr movie ended). At a table, eating with other people, I invariably finish last, often having to "hurry" my meal so that I don't delay everybody else too much. (I hate going to restaurants, and that's one of the many reasons why.)

My breakfast is quite a bit bigger than what most people would eat though. It consists of a teacup-sized scoop of rolled oats in a bowl with a sprinkling of dried currants and a few sultanas. Boiling water is poured over them to cover them. This is left for about 5 minutes to soak up the hot water, then milk is stirred in. This makes a delicious meal that gradually fuels my body for many hours, unlike the "standard" cereals that cause your body to blast quickly with the sugar and simple carbohydrates and leave you empty and ravenous in just a few hours. My brekkie has to be solid though, because it's my main meal of the day, and I don't eat anything else till evening, when I have a bowl of veges which takes me about 2hrs to eat.