{"id":665,"date":"2010-09-14T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2010-09-14T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T22:21:23","slug":"i-sing-the-body-electric-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/i-sing-the-body-electric-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"I Sing the Body Electric–Fame!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hazily remember that back when I used to work full-time, I used to do things like go into other peoples’ offices or classrooms to jabber when I needed a break. \u00a0I even remember a Catchy Jingles War with my boss Elizabeth, in which we’d wait until the other one stepped away from her desk, call each other up, and sing or whistle an annoyingly catchy tune–“I’d rather buy at PC [that’s PC Richards!” or “Can-can, Shop-Rite has the can cans!” \u00a0There was also the time that Angie and I plotted a hella bad April Fool’s Day prank that I couldn’t laugh about for a long time. \u00a0But it’s a good thing I have these memories, because when I do things like watch clips from the\u00a0Fame <\/em>movie during writing breaks, I don’t feel like such a lout.<\/p>\n

I had a really good reason for watching Fame<\/em>. \u00a0I needed a good poem quote about swimming for the big moment when Luke takes the plunge, and I found one from Walt Whitman–<\/p>\n

Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is so apropos you don’t even know it. \u00a0But then I thought, “Oh, ‘I sing the body electric’–just like that song from Fame<\/em>! \u00a0I need to watch that. \u00a0And do you:<\/p>\n