Self Psychological Diagnosis

I suffer from SNA. SNA is also referred to as Severe Netflix Anxiety. You can learn more about this in the wonderful Brad Stone article The Netflix Hangover. Basically this is a syndrone caused by my paying $19.50 a month and watching the 3 Netflix movies sit atop my TV. Not in my DVD player, but atop the TV in their cute little red Netflix postage paid envelopes. Not only is it a waste of money when I don't go through my movies quickly but I truly feel the guilt when I've received a movie that has a long wait listed next to the title on the Netflix website. Its people like me cause undue anguish to that teenage girl who waited anxiously for her copy of Pride & Prejudice while it sat in my living room from 04/26/06 to 07/05/06. Sure I watched it like 5 times cause the movie rocks and even a chick can admit that Keira Knightly is hot, but I guess two months really was pushing the envelope. But most upsetting is the fact that sometimes movies arrive in my mailbox that I just can't get into the mood for. The best examples are a couple recent rentals The History of Violence which I had for 6 weeks and Good Night, and Good Luck which I had for 9 weeks. Hell, if I got American Pie's Band Camp in the mail today I would find a way to squeeze 90 minutes out of my evening to fit that in. But something like Good Night, and Good Luck, thats some heavy stuff. I mean, come on, its in black and white for goodness sake. And they dehotted George Clooney. Whats the point?! Finally I forced myself to sit down and watch it and was pretty satified. The acting was good, the story had historical importance and I'll admit, I don't think I remembered that Senator McCarthy was from Wisconsin. The guy probably owned a cow and we let him scare the hell out of a good portion of America's power players. What a country?!!

Anyway, its my goal in the coming month to be a good Jew and get my monies worth by renting and returning as many movies as humanly possible. I will make Erika and Roger proud of me. Shabbat Shalom everyone!