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GLEANINGS FROM THE GROVE
The of Evaluation
Paul Fanning, DTM
Can you believe that we are already in am a Toastmaster! I am a trained evaluator, and
mid-December and the year is almost over? why could I not have a little fun at the romcom
They tell me the older one gets, the faster time genre’s expense and do an evaluation on the
flies. This year seems to have flown by me, and movie like I was taught in Toastmasters? Thus,
if I did not have bills to pay monthly, I would after missing so many club meetings due to work,
be oblivious to the calendar and what month I could once again hone my skills as an evaluator.
this possibly should be. I wonder, what have I I jumped up—popcorn kernels flying from my
accomplished in 2021? shirt—and I gathered the tools of my trade before
I am sure that I will take the time in January the next movie started. With generic evaluation
to muse over my accomplishments, set new goals, form, pen, and note paper in hand, I re-settled
and/or celebrate. Or, keeping up with my new on the couch, and prepared to give the movie a
trend, not doing anything but reacting to what true and proper Toastmaster evaluation.
is going on around me. Now you do realize that there are hundreds
A couple of weeks ago on one of my nights of movies already filmed, with about 30-35 new
off, I decided to do nothing but resemble a couch Christmas ones produced each year. They do,
potato. I settled in, had my beverage and popcorn or in my quick review, fall into three categories.
at my fingertips. Surfing the channels, I could • Single person meets their soulmate, and
find nothing in my favorite genre of action or it takes them one hour-thirty minutes to
historical movies. Rejecting the numerous reality discover this.
shows, I discovered that there were six channels • A common working class young woman
with Hallmark movies playing. I discerned that meets her idea of a perfect husband, only
they were safe to watch, as they are rated G, to discover he is a royal prince in disguise
and clicked onto the first one. Mario Lopez in and hiding from his family.
New Mexico. Click. Colin Ferguson (the Maytag • The star must discover what means the
man). Eventually I settled on a typical Hallmark most to her in her life and discovers
romcom of sisters switching identities, families, romance as an outcome. Usually her
jobs, boyfriends, and watched it all come apart mother/father have passed on, and they
until the last fifteen minutes when the miracle bare the task to close the shop, sell the
happened to right it all. Then it dawned on me. I house and/or dispose of the accumulation
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