my acting teacher, Kristin Linklater, based some of her techniques on Feldenkrais methodology, for whatever that's worth.

Linklater is a big believer in developing the physicality of the acting process.

Oooh. You got to study with Linklater? Sweet.

Steph, I had a few sessions with a Feldenkrais specialist about my hip pain. She could watch me walk, have me lie down, reposition my body gently, and when I got back up my walk was totally different. I couldn't afford to keep seeing her, unfortunately, but I still use some of what she taught me about how I walk.

Hil, I hope today is better for you.

Yeah, she taught at Emerson while I was there- I had her for at least 2 semesters and was under her coaching during our mainstage production of The Birds.

She was AWESOME.

He also told me to stop leaving "angry notes" on his door. I have, twice (I think), left a post-it on his office door saying something like, "Can you please let me know when you can meet with me this week?" It was generally when he hadn't responded to an email for over a week, and I figured that having something that he'd see immediately might work better than an email. (And it did -- he responded to both those notes right away.) I was definitely angry when I wrote them, but I was very careful to make sure the notes themselves were polite.

"O my Advisor and O the delight of my academic career, may you live forever! When will it be your pleasure to allow this abject, humble petitioner to bring her most unworthy queries regarding her lowly thesis to your exalted attention, so that she may bring it a tiny step closer to completion, generally bask in the glory of your wisdom, and properly add to your reputation as a most learned and puissant professor?" probably wouldn't go over quite as well as one might hope, either.

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"O my Advisor and O the delight of my academic career, may you live forever! When will it be your pleasure to allow this abject, humble petitioner to bring her most unworthy queries regarding her lowly thesis to your exalted attention, so that she may bring it a tiny step closer to completion, generally bask in the glory of your wisdom, and properly add to your reputation as a most learned and puissant professor?" probably wouldn't go over quite as well as one might hope, either.

No, but it would amuse the hell out of us.

And put a smiley face on it, then he'll know you're not pissed.

No, but it would amuse the hell out of us.

It would also be fun to send him an engraved invitation to a scientific demonstration of the latest methods of recto-cranial inversion therapy. But even if he did RSVP, you couldn't count on him to show up.

Ebert's "talking"!

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He was on Oprah with the module mentioned in the Esquire article, the one from Scotland using his recorded voice from all his shows. I'm so glad that's working.