Actress, model, dancer, whatever...

Today I accepted the job with the research study. Woohoo!! The best part was signing the paperwork. They had to come up with my job title. While I'm not a model or a dancer, they did list my job title as Actress. Haha, I love it! They also said they would renew my contract as long as they could. I just realized now though that I hope to not be eligible for that to happen. While being overweight finally has a perk, the benefits of losing weight are so much better! Although, this job does pay better than my real life job. The hours are also better. Hmm, I could get use to this!

The professor is a bit eccentric. He is just a little odd. He talks in a regular volume of voice to barely audible. At one point he and the other professor were literally talking at the same time. I found it sort of comical that they were studying human interaction and were both so quirky. At another point one of the men had to leave, but they wanted to make a hiring decision. So, they had a code word. Apparently, when they both said the same word, that meant I was hired. I told them both it was very important to me to see the results of the research in the end.

I think there is a large level of discrimination to the overweight and obese population. To date, very few research studies have been done. Most of them have been done around photos, they lack human interaction. I don't want sympathy because I'm overweight, but I do want people to be aware of their perceptions. I also want the same or similar opportunities as my slimmer friends. Now, I say similar because there are certain jobs that you shouldn't get because of physical conditions (in my opinion). For example, I don't think it would be fair for me to become a firefighter. I would hate to be the reason someone didn't make it out. Now, if I could meet the physical requirements, that would be a different story. I just think discrimination can be such a fine line.

Recently at work we have talked about discrimination a lot. A number of us want to specify that only non smokers can be employed. Obviously, this is not legal. On the other hand, I don't think it is fare I work in a close environment with someone wreaking of carcinogens. After all, they have done studies on third hand smoke...turns out first, second, and third hand smoke all suck. Yep, they suck the life right out of you. Unfortunately, my asthmatic lungs will just have to work with people who smoke. I find it difficult to not be hypocritical to some extent in cases like this. While I don't want to be discriminated, I do want to discriminate against people who smoke. It's also totally out of a somewhat conceded point of view. I watched my grandfather pass away of lung cancer, I don't want to experience anything even remotely similar. I also don't want anyone else in the world die from something preventable. I guess in an odd way, this is part of the reason I know weight loss is important. I want to live a long healthy life, I love life.

Okay, I'm jumping off my soapbox for now. Tomorrow I am helping my in-laws move. Should be fun!