Take Two #31: The Good, the Bad and the Disney

By Kyra-lin Hom

This has been one heck of week so please forgive me if I seem less eloquent and more scattered than usual. One of the disadvantages of trying to cultivate a writing (screenwriting for film specifically) and otherwise artistically motivated career is that it's a piecemeal process. I don't necessarily have time for a regular 9 to 5. This leaves me picking up jobs whenever and wherever I can from eBay auctioneer to cleaning lady to seamstress. My bigger problem is learning how to say 'no' because busier means I make more money for the week. This has been one of those weeks.

One of my responsibilities – and privileges I might add – is spending the day with my niece. I've probably mentioned the precocious 2-year old before, as she is a bundle of blue-eyed adorable. Part of our routine used to be her early morning educational cartoons. Recently, however, those cartoons have been replaced with the classic Disney movies – so classic my sister and brother-in-law had to buy a VHS player just for them. You all know the movies that I'm talking about. So far, with her, I've watched Pocahontas, Robin Hood (the favorite from my childhood), The Lion King, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast and part of Cinderella. Let me just say that watching these Disney movies as a child and watching them as an adult are two completely different things.