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Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer

2013-06-25 · Hannah Hart · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · reflection essay

Guest host Hannah Hart, home in Los Angeles after two and a half months of touring, records a comic Thoughts from Places about coming home; watching dogs and a sunset, she muses that maybe she needs to be more appreciative and less contemplative, and that home shouldn't be taken for granted.

What is said

00:00:00 — Crash Course fake-out; Hannah home after two and a half months touring, time with John and a child of the brothers

  • ★★ Hannah wakes in her own bed for the first time in two and a half months, after travelling around the country meeting fans of her channel. — 00:00:00
  • ★ During her travels she spent time with John and his son a child of the brothers, whose fondness for hammers she will not soon forget. (playful) — 00:00:00 · John Green

00:00:38 — A day at home: cafe, writing thoughts from places, a stranger's dog, dishes, post-tour laundry, therapist

  • ★ Hannah opens with a fake Crash Course intro, then frames her video as a Thoughts from Places about coming home, written at her favourite cafe. (playful) — 00:00:38 · Thoughts from Places, Crash Course
  • ★★ Home for only a day, she has already filled her sink with dishes and has post-tour laundry to do; coming home, she says, sucked. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★ She goes to see her therapist, whose comedic approach to her own profession often helps Hannah with what is on her mind. — 00:01:34

00:02:03 — Seeing Los Angeles anew; maybe getting a dog; a friend's dog; dog ownership as cleaning

  • ★★ Wondering whether to get a dog, she visits a friend's dog and decides dog ownership is mostly like cleaning, the thing she is avoiding, plus saliva. (playful) — 00:02:03

00:02:47 — Reflection: be more appreciative and less contemplative; a sunset is like coming home; stops before four minutes like Grace; sign-off

  • ★★★ Watching dogs simply happy to be alive, she muses that maybe she needed to be more appreciative and less contemplative: not every journey needs observing from outside. (hedged) — 00:02:47
  • ★★★ Watching the sunset from her porch, she thinks a sunset is like coming home: it seems to stay the same, but we mustn't take it for granted. — 00:03:24
  • ★★ She stops recording because she does not want to go four minutes like Grace did. (playful) — 00:03:24 · Four-minute rule

Humor (significant)

  • At her favourite cafe she resists the temptation of carbohydrates. — 00:00:38 > «or as I like to call muffins, morning cake.»
  • She films a stranger's dog and wonders if she is ready for that responsibility. — 00:01:09 > «wondering if I was ready for that kind of responsibility. Nope.»
  • After her reflection she returns home and surveys her apartment with deep feeling. — 00:02:47 > «man, I'm really happy I put that key ring there because I basically never lose them anymore.»
  • Hannah ends her poetic sunset thought by stopping the recording early. — 00:03:24 > «So I stopped recording, because I didn't want to go for four minutes like Grace did.»

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