Man, that would be startling!

Oh, old loans, right. Yeah, I think I remember having to pay right away before the consolidation came through.

That's a crazy story, meara.

OMG! I do not want baby bunnies! Msbelle, I don't know if we have a craiglist, but that is a good idea. I have been looking in the paper for "free to good home" kitties.

Corwood, I'm cranky on your behalf and I'm really pro-indoor only cats (largely because my Sky died in my arms after bing hit by a car in front of the house when I was 9. But also because MommaCat died of injuries from a catfight found out roaming.) BUT, I realize that this is not an option for all cats. I know my parents' cats love their semi-supervised outdoor time, evenings and some mornings and would be very unhappy to lose that. So I'm a big meanie and all my cats? They will never know the great outdoors sans a leash or some shit.

OK theater people, I need some advice. My across-the-way neighbor girl asked me if I would help her do read throughs of her script for her theater program tomorrow night. I agreed. She's probably 11 or 12, and I don't really know her or, more importantly, what sort of things I can do to help her memorize a script (and hell, I've forgotten her name. But I do that often and have the embarrassed lines down pat.) So are there any sorts of tips for helping a presumed beginner practice her line? With a rank beginner helping her?

I'm kind of excited. I'm such a goof. But, y'know, kids. They are kind of neat. And I'm really flattered she asked. I mean, they've lived across from me for probably five years, and we just exchange a few friendly words. I'm pretty sure her dad suggested it because he sees me out on my balcony reading ALL THE TIME.

This is also the dad I TOTALLY JUDGE because of late night dance parties, but whatever. She was so adorable asking.

I'm a big dork.

But an adorable one.

Adorkable!

When I was that age, I just remember reading stuff over and over and over.

sarameg- sometimes it is all about the rote memorizartion, but a lot of the times it can be about what makes sense for the character to say next/. I was a horrible memorizor, however, and really only achieved it by typing my lines on an electric typrewriter. Also, I don't know if Trudy is here, but much ~ma for you and Dallas. Also, my return does not seem to be working.

The only thing remotely resembling acting I ever did was skits we had to do for various foreign language classes. Oh, and this fucked up skit we had to do for junior english . We wrote it. Characters from books on the syllabus. All three of us were Not Please. So we took three screwed up characters and shocked our peers and poor doofy Mrs. Greenberg. There was Daisy from Great Gatsby, Katherine from East of Eden (omg, we wrote her fucked up. I think I was her. Incredibly bitchy) and I can't recall the other one. It was a royally whacko female character.

Anyway, me and theater don't speaking, really. Which is enormously amusing when I look at some of my college friends, who are steeped in theater life.

Sophia, would it help if I shoved all my furniture to the walls and had her act out, not just read/memorize? Or is that something they'll likely work on in their program? See, I don't know the steps for this. My stuff was all wrote memorization.

We did a film. Othello in Space. A classic, truly.