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Eternity opened last night. It went okay--not great but not a disaster. Acting-wise, I was going places I'd never gone before, which was great. I did something new with the "Alice" limerick and gave Jason-as-Diana a deadly look on the last line, which set up our confrontation nicely. And I was discovering new things on a lot of lines. So that was all good. Brendan was either really flustered or something because he actually did some weird things in the first act--he placed the wheelbarrow facing almost straight ahead, so I had to crane my neck to see the rest of the cast. Not good, with all the neck and back problems I've been having. This also meant he couldn't sit to my right while eating, so he sat on my left, which isolated me quite a bit (Alex/Marian and I have a moment after she kicks Diana off the beach--the moment couldn't happen last night because Brendan was in the way). He was also force-feeding me during the pizza/Coke bit--I had to break character and shake my head at him. Please do not insistently shove pizza and Coke at me! The weirdest thing was when I started my "Gold--no myrrh in mine..." speech--I was all into it, really going there when all of a sudden WHUMP. Brendan was all over me like a cheap suit. He really bowled me over and distracted me--hugging me, kissing my hair, etc. WEIRD. Ben made the point that he couldn't bear to touch me during rehearsal, and now he's all over me.

The topless scene went okay, except that it took me forever to find the skirt and shirt so I was topless for quite a bit longer than I anticipated. Plus I was FREEZING in the lobby putting on those wet clothes--I kept swearing to Ari and saying "I can't believe I agreed to do this." I'm such a baby about the cold. I hate it.

This sounds about right

I am a hybrid of: Uptown Girl Academic Girl Party Girl Click on the pictures below to read more: Take the 'What Kind of Girl Are You?' quiz at CookingToHookup.com

Some of the descriptors are awfully accurate, like for the Uptown Girl:

She begins her sentences with: "When we were on Martha's Vineyard..."
She'd never: fly coach.

Well, I have flown coach but not often. And I do own real pearls, of course. Who doesn't?

And the Party Girl one is interesting as well:

That classic scene of her standing in front of Tiffany's eating her breakfast roll and sipping coffee after being out on the town all night, her fridge with nothing in it, those wild cocktail parties.

Yeah. My mom and aunt commented on my fridge the last time they visited, how little food and how much liquor and mixes were in there (they both approved).

But I do knit.

These are the names

Kenneth Bigley.

Daniel Pearl, Nicholas Berg, Paul Johnson, Kim Sung-Il, Georgi Lazov, Eugene Armstrong, Jack Hensley. And unnamed Kurdish truck drivers, and Turkish workers, and anonymous Iraqi citizens. Although the filth that took their lives chose the most degrading method possible, in an attempt to sow terror and reap obedience (like their predecessors in hatred in the pre-Civil Rights era South), they have not dehumanized their victims--only themselves.

We will remember their names.

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Interesting. It would certainly explain a lot. Salon also looks at this theory.

Some of my favorite comments from that page:

If someone is feeding Bush things to say, they should be fired because he says some really stupid things!

and this exchange:

Oh, come on, guys. Bush gets that "deer in headlights" look because he's listening to messages from God, of course, and you know it.
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Maybe Bush's handlers put the device in his ear and he THINKS it is the voice of God.

It just gets disturbing, though, when he argues with that voice during a debate.

I must say, I find all these references to Presidential bulges rather hilarious.