Not a Rant - Just an Observation

I'm only writing this down because I wanted to make sure I remember it. Even though I am writing it down, there is still a good chance that I will forget about it and the fact that I've written it down.

When I started college, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study psychology and get a degree in it. My mother also got her degree in psychology and she actually advised me not to major in it. So, as of right now, I still don't know what I will major in, but that doesn't mean I'm no longer interested in psych.

So I made an observation a couple of days ago that made me giddy - in a nerdy kind of way.

I was watching a movie early in the morning. No one else was awake, so when the event I am about to tell you about happened, I had no one to tell at that precise moment. I have also been watching the show Bones, which I think I've mentioned on this blog before.

Now, I'd seen the movie I was watching before, Cold Mountain, but I have only seen it once before. A scene played where Jude Law was in an infirmary. A nurse was reading him a letter from Nicole Kidman. Now, when I said that I was watching this movie earlier, I might have exaggerated a little. I was actually on my computer, looking at my Facebook account, so I was just tuning into the movie every now and then. It has also been years since I watched the movie all the way through because I don't like it. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, great even. The problem I have with it, however, is that it is depressing. Unlike young women and girls who love stories about star-crossed lovers who end up in tragedy(mostly Nicholas Sparks movies), I do not like to be sad, so I tend to stay away from movies that make me feel like crying.

Back to the infirmary scene... The movie is set during the Civil War, so they didn't have electricity. They were using candles for light, so I couldn't see Jude Law or the nurse very well. However, when I glanced up to my TV screen and saw the profile of the nurse, I automatically had a thought: I think I'll watch an episode of Bones after this...

After the thought popped into my head, I wondered why exactly that had happened. The movie really had nothing in common with the show Bones, so why had that occurred to me? I decided to watch most of the scene to try and figure it out. When they panned in a little on the nurse - and the lighting was a bit better - I solved my problem. The actress who was playing the nurse also played Dr. Temperance Brennan on Bones. Her name is Emily Deschanel, sister of the well-known Zooey Deschanel(who played in Elf and 100 Days of Summer; she is now currently playing the main character in the show New Girl).

This just made me think of how amazing the human mind is. I'd recognized the nurse as the same woman who plays the main character in the show I've been watching without even realizing it!

How cool is that?!