I would have thought that "sounding Jewish" would mean having a Yiddish accent.

Or a certain NYC accent, if you're talking to people from Elsewhere.

Nora! That is so incredibly fabulous! I am so happy for you and Tom.

I enjoy a great deal the idea of THE GREAT UNBURDONING! That should be our group effort for the month of December.

Discardia!

No opinions on poker or Jack Reacher, though please put me in the "can't stand Tom Cruise" club.

Well, I don't know what's going to happen next. My sister cancelled a meeting and is talking with the house psychologist and my father, and is going to call the psychiatrist since I have had no luck getting through to him.

Man, I feel like I'm all BOB NEEDS CLONOPIN these days. Sorry if I'm kind of one-note, it's boring even to me.

No opinions on poker or Jack Reacher, though please put me in the "can't stand Tom Cruise" club.

Me, too! I've never read any of these books, but on general principles I dislike Cruise.

How does someone sound Jewish?

Funny and sarcastic? I'm at a loss.

Jesse, I googled "Tom Cruise miscast" to get the feel of what's out there, and it was one of the first articles that came up. Dwayne might've been great. He definitely fits the physically imposing aspect.

Old enough, a little too pretty, but that's Hollywood.

Consuela, if you can get the doctor on the phone, maybe a little something for yourself??

I'll just say, my support group only meets once a month, and people often have crazy shit that's gone on in between, but I don't think there's been anyone that had a parent move into a facility that wasn't breathing a sigh of relief by a month later.

Consuela, you are in the thick of a whole lot of uhg. No need to apologize for it. Having somewhere, anywhere to say it out loud makes it a little less isolating. Because otherwise you are alone with it and your fellow inmates.

Congrats on the houselessness for those who desired it.

I am so not prepared to put in a full week of work. And I'm struggling to get my lap times back into a reasonable range and not really succeeding. I mean, I know I have to rebuild my conditioning after almost 3 weeks off. I know that because I did get a lot of exercise while away (but different muscles ) that my muscles and shape changed subtly, and I'm going to have to compensate differently (every time I drop weight, my speed goes to shit. Buoyancy, whodathunk?) BUT I HAVE NO PATIENCE.

I've read just one Reacher book, but... nope, not Tom Cruise. Reacher not only has a huge physical presence, he's bleak and broody and a very self-sufficient, composed man of few words (which makes the physical presence even more significant) who clearly has Big Feelings but keeps them all on serious lockdown. Gary Cooper could have done it. Bruce Willis could have done it a few years ago (not sure how tall or not-tall he is, but he's an amazing physical actor). Chris Hemsworth can, maybe, with a few years on him. Nathan Fillion, drawing on the darkest, most rigidly practical and brokenest bits of Mal.*

Cruise? No, no, no. He does have a weird ability to do dark and broken (I loathe almost everything he's done but love Magnolia -- please forgive me, Teppy), but his dark and broken is a little too jittery, greasy, cock-waggy. So very, very not Reacher.

*(Actually, even though the two characters were created by different people at different times and don't exactly have a ton in common, it's just about fair to say that if you can't imagine the actor in question credibly playing Mal, he probably can't play Reacher either. I have no doubt Cruise will be competent and the movie will be thrilling, but it won't be a Reacher movie except by linguistic accident.)

So, poor Homer hasn't eaten anything since I got home, and has barely gotten off the sofa. I feel like he's deteriorating really fast. But also sort of that staring at a cat is a bad idea.