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Hello world.
I had a topic on here awhile ago, in which a certain "Heather" lavished quite a bit of attention and care upon me, and then I got caught up in my life outside this digital screen, and I stopped posting here. I was dealing with a breakup with my wife of four years.
Since then: I had a short, but intense relationship with a girl I met online - and it tanked pretty severely. Thankfully I'm over that, (I think). I had a bit of a nervous breakdown, and moved in with my parents in Texas. I'm in group therapy five days a week. The (ex)wife is staying with her parents for the summer as well, and *key point*: she told me she needed to be unreachable (by me) for the duration of the summer, after which, we could talk some more.
So I'm here in Texas, wasting away a little bit. I'm really good at being despondent, feeling sorry for myself at times like these. I thought I was done having feelings about Kate, but on Father's Day I had a dream, and somehow I think that opened the floodgates, and I'm just in what feels like a really pissy, insecure state of mind. I imagine what it might be like to talk to her at summer's end, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: "I want you back. I want to be your husband, or at least your man. I want you, I miss you, I need you, take me BAAAACK."
To which she responds something like:
"All I did was support you, and toward the end there all you did was fall apart. I've already moved on, in fact I have a dozen guys vying for the grace of my company. What do you have to offer me besides your desperation?"
And right now, geez, it feels like desperation is all I could offer her.
I come here to the message boards to b*tch, to put my emotions into words. (For some reason it's easier to do it here than in a private journal). I don't know if what I need is an understanding "shoulder to cry on" or a business-like, stern sort of "buck up, soldier."
I told my therapy group today that I have this pervasive discontent, and I don't want to let it go. Like right now, for example, I have a suspicion that I don't *really* need to be sharing this here, that I am in some way addicted to being "the emotional guy". Like maybe I want someone to come along and pity me and such, but I don't want to have to actually make myself feel better. I was with my (sort of ex-)wife for four uninterrupted years, and she was almost my only source of emotional support, and now that she's not there for me anymore, I become this really unattractive sniffling manchild. And people try to talk sense into me and tell me "now is your chance to discover yourself, get to know yourself, since you've always had someone to take care of you and you never had to be alone." And I just want to throw my hands up, throw in the towel, because "alone" sucks.
So... you see. I may be overinflating all of this. Heather, the last post you gave me, you suggested I find a volunteer gig, and that was not at all what I wanted to hear. I didn't look for one. What I really wanted was, possibly, something that it's not possible for me to get. A sort of warm reassurance, you know? I'd like to have someone tell me "you are worthwhile, you are charming and smart and you will probably win multiple Nobel prizes, that's how awesome you are." What the h*ll do you tell a person like me, who is so doggedly determined not to help himself?
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It's good to see you, When Your Mind's Made Up , though I'm sorry it's because you're still struggling so much with all of this.
One thing I think is really important is to make sure you're recognizing that what you're working through is a really big deal. Getting married so young is huge, going through divorce so young (heck, at all, it's such a tough thing to go through) is huge, losing a long-term primary relationship is huge, losing your first love is huge, losing your sole support system is huge. It's ALL really big stuff, and you're going through all of it at once. That it's very hard for you, that it's been a struggle that has taken a real toll on you is unsurprising.
And as it seems from the start, you're actually doing a phenomenal job in taking care of yourself. I don't know about winning the Nobel, as that seems tough for any of us to do, but I know that it IS clear you're awesome and worthwhile and smart. I don't see you NOT taking care of yourself. It's clear you have been, but you're just having a tough time getting past some hurdles. Happens to the best of us.
One of the reasons I suggested volunteering is that it can tend to help cultivate the kinds of feelings about oneself you're looking to have. Don't suppose you might be interested in resuming that search? If so, I'd be happy to help.
I know alone like this sucks. But the good news is, you don't have to be alone *like this.* I'm sure you already know by now that having just one person as a sole support system isn't a workable plan, nor is making a romantic partner your whole world. So, you have the opportunity to start building a different life in which you're not alone, even at times when you're by yourself or without a romantic partner. Know what I mean?
At the same time, there's nothing wrong with grieving about what you have lost here and not being Mr. Sunshine.
When Your Mind's Made Up
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The satisfaction of seeing your response before I leave in the morning for therapy is considerable.
I'm gonna let this sit and percolate in my mind. I have such trouble deciding how feel about myself, deciding what kind of person I am, because I think I make so much of how each and every person I encounter, reacts to me. So I'm glad to have your reply. It's an opinion delivered from (what I consider to be) an authoritative source, and it's in writing, too. I was kind of afraid to read it, you know? Yeah, really, I was. I was just so clearly looking for validation, that I thought maybe I wouldn't get it. I felt manipulative.
OK, actually, there's a question. When people use that term "manipulative" to describe how someone relates to people, do you think that's a useful term? Do you have a clear definition in your mind, and do you think that my post qualifies as manipulation?
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I think manipulation is a useful word/term, but I don't think it's applicable here.
You came and posted something somewhere where our job is to respond to people and to try and serve their needs. You made clear that some of what you felt you needed was some bigging-up. I don't see that as a manipulation on your part, at all.
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Restating and recapping:
Getting married at nineteen: A big deal.
Losing that relationship four years later: a big deal.
Losing access to the support system I had that revolved around her: A big deal.
It's difficult to imagine a future in which I'm not with Her and yet I'm happy. The last time I was this miserable over a breakup, I found Her, and married her three months later.
I keep on trying to find a way around this, most especially by reaching out online, but what I keep finding out is: There's no way around this. There's no way to stop hurting. The one tactic I've used in the past to feel better was to start up a new relationship, but those have, without exception, gone south.
Hmm... I've been reading (sort of New-Agey) books that suggest that we all create our own reality, and if that's true, than it would appear that I brought this on myself because there was something that I wanted badly enough to lose Her over it. So maybe I have something to look forward to.
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I don't know what you've been reading, but I do know that when other people are involved, we can't have control over what they do and their lives. So, I personally find the idea that you created the reality of everything that happened with your relationship doesn't make any sense, since there was someone else in it.
You know, I'm wondering if you might find some solace in something similar to this -- the situation, only a little, but the feelings seem quite familiar -- I went through in my own young life. If so, let me know, and I'm happy to share.
When Your Mind's Made Up
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Well on the one hand, the feelings seem to have suddenly lifted. For four days I'm caught in these powerful feelings of loneliness and neediness, and then I wake up today, and I feel more or less on top of things.
On the other hand, that is a choice offer, and one that I'm loath to turn down. If you're willing to share, I'm willing to receive.
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I'm glad you felt better yesterday! I hope that's carried over some.
So, here's what I wanted to share with you that I'm hoping might offer you something.
After I was around 10 or so, my life got exceptionally awful. I was sexually assaulted twice, once very violently, at 11 and 12, and until I left home at 15, our household included a very verbally and emotionally abusive stepparent. My father, who has always been my best friend in the world, was also unavailable to me during some of those years. I was suicidal, including being hospitalized for attempts a couple times, I was often sleeping on couches and sometimes even park benches, it was just all outrageously bad.
Then one day, when I was at what felt like my lowest, I met (bumped into, really, quite literally) the first person I'd say I developed very deep feelings of romantic love for which were also shared and returned. This person not only helped me feel a lot better, and was very supportive of me, including helping me do and have the strength to do what would eventually get me out of my home for good to live with my father. I was able to have fun with this person, I was able to share some of the parts of my life history with this person I had shared with no one, and his were as awful as mine, so we had a lot in common. I felt very loved, very cared for, very supported and very much IN love.
Very sadly, just a few days after I was able to move, and two days after my 16th birthday, he overdosed on Quaaludes (a powerful tranquilizer frequently recreationally used in the 80s they don't make anymore), found his housemate's gun and shot himself. I won't get into the gory details with that, but I did have to visually see some of the aftermath on top of having a very sudden loss of someone I loved deeply, someone who had helped steer me away from suicide myself, no less. I also had to deal with gossip at the school I went to at the time, where I was already very outcast, that I had killed my boyfriend.
There were a lot of things which made dealing with his sudden death really rough on me, besides the mere fact of this person being dead, and being dead in this way, this way that very much felt like an express choice to leave me alone in the world.
For a few weeks, I was just in shock: for the most part, I just wasn't there, in my life, in my head, at all. After that time period passed, I had this kind of constant deep, thick, quiet sadness for a month or so. Having seen what I had, and feeling the effects of what it's like to survive the suicide of someone I'd loved, that simply wasn't an option for me anymore, which made things feel a lot worse since that as a viable option had kind of always felt like an escape hatch for me. Like, if things ever got TOO bad, I at least had the option of pushing the eject button. So, there was the loss of that, on top of the loss of this person.
Then, that summer, I just seriously lost it. I was basically in a state of constant breakdown every day, doing recreational drugs I was getting in ways that weren't safe, doing with people that weren't safe, and often being ditched by those people in the middle of nowhere in the city because I'd just flip out on them, and they were not caring people enough to bring me anywhere to be helped. (And only around 15 years after all this did I even realize I was kind of mimicking his behaviour: taking so many drugs that I maybe might die or do something out of my control that resulted in my death. Always so amazing how much we can't see when we're in it sometimes, and how long it can take us to get a clear picture.) Some people realized that they could get into my pants or my home or whatever by pretending to know him (he was kind of the king of our punk scene, so everyone did), and I was so shellshocked, I didn't figure out what they were doing for a little while to cut that off.
Thankfully, my father and my therapist helped me get myself together enough to audition for an arts high school (I grew up making music and art and writing and was very talented in all three departments), and I got in and was able to get one of their lone full scholarships. I think their actions and that school earnestly saved my life and my sanity. Being able to get myself to a totally new place, with all new people and fully immersing in something very, very demanding where I could express my feelings in my creative work but could not drown in them made a HUGE difference for me.
But you know, interpersonally, it took three different people I had serious relationships with over a ten year period all saying that often they felt like they were with a widow for me to get that I still had a lot of processing to do around all of this. So, I did it, much the way you are now: I asked for a lot of help. I also let myself be sad when I was sad, angry when I was angry, and let myself be happy when I was happy. I did a lot of self-reminding that this person was absolutely very important to me, and in some ways I owed them a great debt, but they were not only gone, they also, in a big way, chose to leave me. Of course, I also had the luxury, if you can call it that, of having them be dead: I could beg them to come back all I wanted, and did it often, but they were not going to come back. I couldn't talk to them or contact them, nor they me. I know it's got to be a bit tougher for you in that regard, without that same scenario.
Mostly, you know, it just took a long time, a lot of time, to get over it as much as I was going to. There are STILL days -- and this happened now over 25 years ago -- when I feel sad about it. It WAS sad, you know? So, I let myself feel sad without asking why, without getting down on myself, without judgments, and that sadness will tend to come and go pretty easily.
I also figured out, over time, that feeling so alone and abandoned had quite a lot to do with needing to get okay being alone: we all are, really, after all. Now I LOVE time to myself, but a lot of that has to do with learning to get okay with the parts of myself or my life that aren't my faves, that are challenging to look at, or that I don't find impressive. Learning to enjoy being by myself, on my own, and not having it be this desperate thing also made me a LOT more able to really be in relationships with other people that were about way more than just my not being alone or having someone around to be the person I need to be for myself: the person who reminds me I'm of value, I'm of worth, I'm an awesome person.
I see you doing all the right things to help yourself out in this, but since you've been posting here, I also see a lot of judgment you put on yourself and what seems like a lot of back-and-forth with maybe not totally letting go of this and finding ways to REALLY put yourself in a new place: emotionally, but sometimes, and I know that was the case with me, to get there, we need new places in our lives, physical places, or situations, like a new school, a new job, a new thing we do with our lives that makes real demands of us.
I do think you can stop hurting like you have been. But I also think it may just take some more time (and I know how long every day can feel when things hurt this bad, so how bitter "more time" can sound), and some more earnest letting go, which is one of the reasons why I suggested something like volunteering. Or, maybe you do something else, like making a major move per where you live, whatever.
But it IS going to get better. And I DO think you are an awesome person, someone who clearly has a lot of emotional intelligence, who is caring, who knows how to ask for help, who is sensitive, who is thoughtful and wise. I suspect that once you get out of the place where you look to others to be the only ones telling you things like that, things will improve a LOT, and I'm guessing you're actually closer to that than you think.
Phew! That was a lot, I know, so here's hoping it offered you something!
When Your Mind's Made Up
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Yes. I'm going to hang on to this one. This post.
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Someone also showed up on my twitter feed today, another guy who also went through a divorce at the same age as you and said he came through it, but it was really hard. So, I asked if he'd drop by here at some point if you wanted to talk to someone else who could probably understand far better than me what you're going through.
When Your Mind's Made Up
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Yes please.
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Hi. I'm the person Heather asked to drop by. I started divorce proceedings at the age of 21, and at the time it felt like my world had been destroyed. My whole life had been restructured around our relationship including moving away from friends and family, and it meant building back from scratch with no idea how.
I don't want to make this post just a long ramble about my own relationship history, but there are a few things that I became aware of that nobody could have warned me of in advance.
Firstly everyone tried to write it off because of our ages. I'm sure they meant well, but to go through that at any age was a difficult and traumatic thing to deal with. Secondly I was very angry. Again this didn't tally with people's expectations, but I needed someone to blame in order to safely deal with that anger. Thirdly I needed to find a new activity to take up my time. Partly because I had so much time to sit alone and think which wasn't at all healthy, but also to have things in my life that weren't previously shared with her. The last thing that jumps to mind is that I knew that I needed to be happy with my own sense of identity. If she could hurt me so badly then I figured I must be a pretty worthless and unlovable person. After the event I can see how toxic this idea was and how essential that I learn to be comfortable with myself.
I'm not sure what else to write at the moment, but I hope some of this is useful. I tend to be a fixer (I'm sure there must be some sort of psychologists term for this, but it's how I describe it) whereby if there is a problem I have to find a solution. I have been trying to think of the perfect thing to say but I know that really there is no such thing as *the* right thing, so if there's anything you want to chat about specifically I will be more than happy to give an insight.
Take care, it gets better.
When Your Mind's Made Up
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I have been feeling better lately - the pain of it all comes and goes. I should be starting at a new school in August, so that should provide a new environment and new people to be around.
Thanks for the words, orbital. I appreciate.
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EDWARDSVILLE — Pushed to the limit for the second time in a month, the Edwardsville Tigers refused to wilt Thursday in their latest epic battle with Belleville West.
Senior Aaliyah Covington scored seven of her 21 points and made three of four free throws in overtime as the Tigers moved another step closer to another Southwestern Conference title with a 48-44 win.
Covington broke a 44-all tie with 1:11 left when she hit one of two free throws. Following a missed shot by the Maroons' Shay Fluker with 35 seconds left, the 5-foot, 11-inch Covington sank two free throws with 14.4 seconds remaining to increase the lead to 47-44.
West junior Imani Berry, whose two free throws at the end of regulation sent the game into overtime, then missed a 3-point attempt to all but end the Maroons' upset hopes.
"We know them and they know us. It was another game of strengths and weaknesses and we somehow keep squeaking them out. I thought we made some big plays in the end,'' Tigers coach Lori Blade said. "We did a good job on the boards late in the game and got some key putbacks. But we moved a little better in the last five minutes.
"The more you move the harder you are to keep off the boards.''
The win is the 70th straight in SWC play for the Tigers (19-1, 9-0) and all but wrapped up a fifth straight undefeated conference season.
The loss was another tough one for the Maroons (5-3, 14-6).
Beaten 43-41 by Edwardsville earlier in the season when all-stater Kortney Dunbar hit a 3-pointer in the final two seconds, West rallied from a seven-point deficit in the third quarter and had one of Southern Illinois' top teams on the ropes again.
But for the second time, coach Clayton Fisher's team came up short.
"They're the champions and like against Central we just can't seem to get over the hump against them,'' Fisher said. "But I'm very proud of the girls. We executed the game plan to perfection and I thought our offensive execution was as good as it has been in three years.
"We just gave up some offensive rebounds and let them get around us a couple of times down the stretch and it cost us.''
Both teams struggled offensively in the first two quarters as Edwardsville took a 15-13 lead into halftime.
Covington, headed to St. Louis University, combined with freshman Cristeon Waters for 11 points in the third quarter as Edwardsville took a 28-23 lead.
Berry, who scored 11 of her 13 points in the second half, tallied seven points in the third period to keep West close.
Fluker then took over for West in the fourth quarter, scoring nine of her 12 points.
The 5-9 Berry tied the game at 39 with her free throws with 7.7 seconds left in regulation and when the Tigers' Kennedy Martin missed a layup at the buzzer, the game went into overtime.


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The opening of a new store can draw crowds of people for the chance to win a free year of food. The restaurants are popular places for school fundraisers. And many people look forward to the promotional days that offer free food to those like the cow mascots.
But in recent days, the Georgia-based fast food chain has been catching flak for president Dan Cathy's statements again same sex marriage.
In East Atlanta, the owners of _ Chef Calavino Donati and her wife, musician and activist Doria Roberts _ shot back with a chicken and biscuit themed special event called "Urban Cannibals Bite Back." they were looking for a way to combat "outrageous and hateful things being said by fairly powerful people" including Cathy.
Patch blogger raised his concerns in a post on the Decatur-Avondale Estates site and said he wouldn't spend money at the chain any more. Tewell wrote that he'd with the company, which told him "We are not anti-anybody."
Of course, Chick-fil-A is not the first company to take a stand that upset some of its customers.
In 2010, Target Corp. drew criticism from progressives for donating to the campaign of Republican Tom Emmer for governor in Minnesota. Some observers called Emmer the biggest opponent of gay rights in the GOP field that year.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
The city of Joplin is inviting community organizations to attend a planning meeting for events connected to the one-year anniversary of the May 22 tornado.
The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday in the basement conference room of Joplin City Hall, 602 S. Main St.
In a statement released Friday, the city announced that the anniversary will include a "Walk of Unity,'' which will cover a distance across the city roughly along the path of the tornado.
Any member of the community will be welcome to take part in the walk.
Patrick Tuttle, director of the Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the planning meeting is intended for civic and community organizations that are interested in helping to stage the event.
Tuttle said there will be several events, or stops, along the walk route with each focusing on a different aspect of the community. One will focus on the rebuilding of Joplin's schools. Another will focus on the faith-based community. Another stop will focus on the children affected by the tornado.
The walk will culminate with an event at Cunningham Park.
Tuttle said he doesn't want to make concrete plans until the community has an opportunity to provide input.
"At this point, we're trying to be vague because we want to see what the community wants," he said.
One thing of which Tuttle is certain is his desire to keep the event from becoming commercialized. He said the city does not plan on allowing vendors along the route.
Organizers are encouraging groups who participate to wear identifying shirts if possible to demonstrate the numbers of groups that participated in Joplin's recovery. Tuttle said it is not necessary for those who plan on participating to attend the planning meeting. He said it is intended for organizations who are interested in coordinating the event.
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MESOPTAMIA — Sarah M. Detweiler (née: Miller), 77, of Mesopotamia, Ohio, died Thursday morning, Sept. 19, 2013, at home surrounded by her family.
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The Blanchard High School football team continued to gain momentum with a shutout victory over Hilldale at home Friday in the 3A state quarterfinals.
The Lions beat the Hornets 42-0, and are now 11-1 this season. Hilldale ends its season with an 11-2 record.
The Blanchard defense didn't allow a first down until the 9:41 mark in the third quarter.
"Just a great all-around effort on our kids' part," Blanchard head coach Jeff Craig said after the game. "The resolve these guys have is just tremendous, the last few weeks they've turned it up a notch."
The Lions will face Jones in the state semifinals, a rematch between two district 3A-1 rivals. Blanchard won 28-25 win the two teams played at Jones High School on Oct. 12.
"They'll be looking to redeem themselves a little bit," Craig said. "We talked about it when we walked off the field, 'we'll probably see you guys in the playoffs'. They've got an excellent football team. We don't expect anything but a great football game that night."
Blanchard will play Jones at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at Putnam City High School in the semifinals.


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CORBIN, Ky. (WYMT) - A Corbin man is facing a number of charges after police say he poured gasoline on his wife and threatened to set her on fire.
On Saturday, police got a call from the couples daughter saying Russell Knickerbocker, 48 was pouring the gas into her mothers eyes and trying to kill her.
When officers arrived, they say Knickerbocker had also poured gas on himself and was holding a lighter, threatening to light them both on fire.
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Ray said he was notified Monday by officials in Lone Tree, Colo., that one of the other candidates would get the job. Ray was one of six finalists for the position out of 90 applicants, and the only finalist not from Colorado.
"It was an opportunity that presented itself that I found very interesting," Ray said. "I take it as a learning experience. I hope to bring some of the things I learned through the process that can help me do a better job."
Ray said he notified members of the Police Department and Mayor Bill Scanlon on Monday that he did not get the job.
"I thanked them for their patience and their support and told them I'm going to give them 100 percent in this job," he said.
Ray, a 53-year-old Beverly native, has been the police chief in Beverly since 2007 and a member of the department since 1985. He was also a finalist for police chief last year in Portland, Maine.
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Five stories from KFAI's 10,000 Fresh Voices series:
1. Diversity in the local fashion industry
Produced by Will Wright
Models are the beautiful people--their images fill magazines, billboards and television screens. Beauty is subjective, but deciding which images sell is big business. In Minnesota, many of the blonde, blue-eyed models we see reflect our Scandinavian culture, but today's community is significantly more diverse. In March 2012, Italian Vogue featured a woman of color, Joan Smalls, on its cover. KFAI producer Will Wright met with local professionals to get their views on how much, or how little, women of color are represented in the fashion industry.
2. Zumba craze hits Minneapolis
Produced by Cyn Collins
Zumba is an exhilarating fitness routine that promotes joyful, healthy living. The workout feels like a dance party, combining Latin music with calorie-burning moves. Since its inception in 2001, Zumba has grown to become the world's largest dance fitness program. More than 12 million people of various ages, shapes and sizes take classes at 110,000 locations in 125 countries. Twin Cities instructor Bernice Arias has been teaching Zumba since 2006. Today she instructs hundreds of students at four Minneapolis locations. KFAI producer Cyn Collins talks to her about the Zumba craze.
3. Minnesota's Tibetan community
Produced by Dan Greenwood
Since the 1950s, Tibetans have fled their homeland for safer havens in India, Nepal and Bhutan, as well as Europe and North America. Currently the Twin Cities has the second largest Tibetan community in the United States. KFAI's Dan Greenwood spoke to Thupten Dadak, a former Tibetan monk who has played an instrumental role in helping Tibetans resettle in Minnesota.
4. Our Turn youth media program
Produced by Michelle Alimoradi
The Twin Cities is recognized nationally for its strong youth media programs. "Our Turn" started as a public access TV show in 1993, produced by Phillips Community Television. Two decades later, PCTV partnered with Intermedia Arts to incorporate new media technologies that include online video production. KFAI producer Michelle Alimoradi visits El Colegio School in south Minneapolis to talk to students about the "Our Turn" program.
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Singer/songwriter Mary Cutrufello was raised in Connecticut and spent years as a recording artist in Texas. She settled in the Twin Cities 10 years ago, and continues to play locally and nationally. Known as a "honky-tonk heroine," she's been featured on Austin City Limits and has produced a number of albums, including a major release on Mercury Records. Vocal nodes silenced her for three years, but in 2007 she returned to performing and released the album, "35." Her most recent release is "Fireflies till they're Gone," which showcases both her full-throated rock wail and quiet intensity. This "Live from Minnesota" segment was produced for KFAI by Daniel Zamzow.
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It was a weekend of lows and a memorable high for Troup quarterback Blake Lynch.
First, the bad news.
Lynch suffered a significant wrist injury in the second half of the Tigers' 35-21 loss to Tatum Friday night at Tiger Stadium.
Things improved drastically for the junior signal caller Sunday evening when Lynch announced on his Twitter account that he had (verbally) committed to continue his academic and athletic career at Baylor University when his days at Troup are done.
Verbal commitments are non-binding.
Lynch also had NCAA Division I offers from Mississippi State, Texas Christian, Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Clemson.
Before exiting the game Friday Lynch rushed for 102 yards in 21 carries. He also went 6-17-0 fro 144 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
His scoring passes went to Hitachi Lydia (48 pass) and to Brandon Hearon (73 yards).
Lynch's efforts have earned him Daily Progress Player of the Week honors for Week 7.
Honorable Mention
Carter McCown, QB, Jacksonville — The Tribe's junior field general went 16-31-2 for 194 yards. He tossed a touchdown pass and ran for two more in Jacksonville's 70-21 loss to Whitehouse, the No. 3-ranked team in Class 4-A.
Jacob Dumesnil, DB, Brook Hill — Dumesnil had 11 tackles on the defensive side and returned a kick off 85 yards for a Guard touchdown in Brook Hill's 34-12 defeat at the hands of undefeated Dallas Christian.
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President Obama will be campaigning in Cincinnati and Columbus on Monday. A release from the Obama for America Campaign says details of the event are forthcoming. The president will travel to New York City on Tuesday.
The Ohio delegation got a warning from Jesse Jackson about the upcoming election and also heard from former governor Ted Strickland. Tonight, President Obama speaks (in a dry venue): Here's the latest from WVXU political reporter Howard Wilkinson in a chat with Mark Heyne:
WVXU political reporter Howard Wilkinson talks with Maryanne Zeleznik about activities at the Democratic National Convention.
Grammy Award winning singer John Legend is the headline draw for the opening of a new Obama-Biden campaign office in Over-the-Rhine early Thursday evening.
Legend, a native of Springfield, Ohio, is expected to be at the new office at 1130 Main Street at 6:30 p.m.
The politically-active Legend, who has won nine Grammy Awards, is the son of a worker at an auto manufacturing plant and is expected to talk to the crowd about President Obama's bailout of the auto industry, which the campaign argues saved thousands of jobs in Ohio.
Both the presidential contest between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney and Ohio's U.S. Senate race are dead heats, according to an Ohio Poll released this morning by University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research.
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by Gavin Lumsden on Feb 04, 2013 at 16:10
(Update) Stock markets have pulled back, with the FTSE 100 dropping 100 points or 1.6% to 6,245, as investors on both sides of the Atlantic take profits after the surge in equities to a five-year high.
On Wall Street the Dow Jones industrial average sank 109 points to 13,900 as investors followed European markets south.
A combination of a poor eurozone consumer confidence survey, electoral uncertainty in Italy and the corruption scandal engulfing Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy conspired to push the FTSE Eurofirst 100 index down 1.35% or 10 points to 1,151.
Italy's FTSE MIB index plunged 520 points or 3.6% to 16,700 as investors rushed to cash in on the New Year rally, prompted by polls showing a revival in the ratings of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Meanwhile, Spain's Ibex 35 fell 247 points, or 3%, to 7,981; the Germany Dax slid 132 points, or 1.7%, to 7,700 and France's Cac 40 sank 96 points or 2.6% to 3,677.
The euro tumbled 0.7% against the dollar to $1.3549 although traders expect it to bounce back as the European Central Bank's monetary policy is tighter than the ultra-loose stance of the US Federal Reserve.
Bank shares tumbled in the market slide and after chancellor George Osborne launched the Banking Reform Bill, which will ring fence banks' high street operations and increase depositor protection. RBS (RBS.L), which reportedly faces a £500 million fine this week for Libor rate fixing, slid 3% or 10.4p to 330p.
Barclays (BARC.L) dropped 7.6p or 2.5% to 292p ff at 299.5p. Earlier the bank announced the departure of finance director Chris Lucas and general counsel Mark Harding.
But it was Aviva (AV.L), the high yielding insurer, that led the market lower, down 4.5% or 16p to 351.7p.
Randgold Resources (RRS.L) was the biggest of only five FTSE 100 risers approaching close. The index's only pure gold stock jumped 3.3% or 205p to £62.90 after its flagship mine in Mali, where French forces are helping the government fight an Islamic insurgency, broke production targets last year.
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Rachel and Joey might become more than friends; Chandler sets a Ms. Pac-Man record; Ross breaks land-speed records.
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Program Type: Series
Season Number: 8
Episode Number: 12
Jennifer Aniston| Courteney Cox Arquette| Lisa Kudrow| Matt LeBlanc| Matthew Perry
David Schwimmer
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Kevin S. Bright| David Crane| Greg Malins| Wil Calhoun
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Common Sense SaysHilarious sitcom for adults and older teens.
Appropriate For?Age Appropriate Some Iffy Stuff Not Age Appropriate14
What's the Story?
Debuting in 1994, the long-running, Emmy-winning sitcom FRIENDS centers on six Manhattan-dwelling friends as they undergo their twenties and become thirtysomethings. The sextet consists of neat-freak chef Monica (Courteney Cox), her thrice-divorced brother Ross (David Schwimmer), sarcastic quipster Chandler (Matthew Perry), batty singer/massage therapist Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), aspiring actor Joey (Matt LeBlanc), and former suburban princess Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). Storylines range from standard sitcom fare (hilarious misunderstandings, dating nightmares, etc.) to weightier plots involving lesbian ex-wives, friend hook-ups, unexpected pregnancies, and more. As the series progressed, episodes became more dramatic and less situational, wisely capitalizing on viewers' decade-long relationship with the characters.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this long-running sitcom's subject matter is often mature. Episodes have dealt with divorce, single parenthood, infertility, and more. The topics are treated sensitively but with the irreverence befitting a sitcom. Premarital sex is depicted as the norm for dating relationships; there's also frequent drinking and some smoking. The characters, while flawed, are always there for one another and are extremely loyal when the chips are down. Families can talk about whether or not the characters make good decisions. Do their lives seem realistic? Are they intended to be role models? How do the characters' friendships compare to teens' own relationships with their friends?
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What to Watch Out forSex:{"id":"parental_ratings_sex"} Plenty of sexual innuendo and jokes. Discussion of adult relationships. Nothing explicit on screen, though characters are sometimes shown in bed together. Kissing, embraces.Language:{"id":"parental_ratings_language"} Occasional expletives or name-calling on the level of "damn" and "bitch."


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Goal Setting
Goal Setting: Your Guide to Setting Goals
Goal setting is one of the fastest routes to achievement. Yet many of us find setting goals and achieving them a difficult task. Use this goal setting guide to learn how to set goals, how to actually achieve the goals you set and how to use goal setting as a tool to push you to accomplish what you want to achieve.
10 Goal Setting Tips
Goal setting isn't just an exercise that you can finish in five minutes; goal setting is a process, a route to achievement. Learn how to set goals that you can and will actually achieve with these ten goal setting tips.
Goal Setting
This goal setting definition includes a brief explanation of goal setting techniques to help you actually accomplish the goals that you set.
Examples of Goals – Goal Examples
Setting goals is easy but achieving them can be hard. One thing you can do to increase the chances of achieving the goals you set is to write them down. Share your examples of goals here.
3 Rules for Setting Business Goals
Like setting personal goals, setting business goals provides us with direction and motivation. But only if we set the right goals, goals that will keep our business on track rather than derail it. How do we know that we're setting the right business goals? The right business goals follow these three goal setting rules.
Start The Day Right With Daily Planning
Goal setting and reviewing the goals you've set as part of a daily business planning session is a powerful way to start your day. Just 20 to 30 minutes will energize you and help you focus on the tasks of the day. Here's how.
Top 10 Business New Year's Resolutions
Ten New Year's resolutions to help you not only increase your business's success in the coming year, but enjoy your success more by keeping work-life balance in mind while you're goal setting.
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Setting goals isn't a complicated process but you need to set the right kind of goals. These goal setting techniques for setting smart goals from Kelley Robertson will help you hit your targets and achieve more.
Setting Goals Is the First Step to Achievement
How to set specific goals that are designed to help you succeed and make it easy for you to evaluate your success. The secret is in the goal setting formula.
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Setting goals is one thing and achieving goals is another. Paul Shearstone explains how to join the ranks of the high achievers and turn the goals you set into accomplishments.
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Having trouble achieving the goals you set? Get a goal buddy. Whether the goals you want to achieve are personal goals or business goals a goal buddy can be your key to goal setting success. These tips for a successful goal buddy relationship will get you on the fast track to achieving your goals.
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You'll be able to set business goals and personal goals more easily if you know what your personal Return On Investment is. Here are two easy ways to determine your personal ROI.
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The Awesome Power of Goal Setting
Ten tips to help you achieve your goals and live your resolutions from About Human Resources Guide Susan M. Heathfield - with some advice from Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and Stephen Covey.
Achieve Your Dreams: Six Steps to Accomplish Your Goals and Resolutions
Don't let your goals and resolutions fall by the wayside. Chances are that to achieve your dreams and live a life you love, those goals and resolutions are crucial. Goal setting and goal achievement are easier if you follow these six steps for effective and successful goal setting and resolution accomplishment (About.com Human Resources).
The Darker Side Of Goal Setting
About Human Resources Guide Susan M. Heathfield identifies five misuses of goal setting that you need to avoid if you're going to use goals as motivation and as a measure of your progress. Are the goals you've set for your business doing what you want them to do or are they destroying the village?
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Hang Six
Christians should talk about the Six Commandments, not Ten. Just post those and constitutional contraints fade away.
Civil libertarians say the Ten Commandments must not be displayed in public places because this constitutes state endorsement of religion. Proponents counter that reminding citizens of divine law will help rebuild the nation's character.
What's intriguing is that, in theological terms, Christianity should have Six Commandments, not Ten. Jesus deliberately snipped out four of the commandments, endorsing only six. The six he favored are moral standards that could readily be posted in any public structure, without violating the line between church and state. It is the Six Commandments, not the Ten, that ought to be central to this debate.
First the political background. A 1980 Supreme Court decision barred most displays of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, on the grounds that this violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which mandates, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
Since 1980, proponents have been looking for a way around the ruling, as part of a movement that calls itself Hang Ten. The Indiana statute seeks to satisfy legal concerns by saying that the Ten Commandments should be displayed along with other historical documents such as the Magna Carta. If displayed in conjunction with secular documents, the Hang Ten movement maintains, then the Ten Commandments would be received as primarily historical, not explicitly Judeo-Christian.
It is unknown whether the Supreme Court would allow an Indiana-type commandments statute to stand. In recent years, federal judges have warmed somewhat toward faith in the public square. William Rehnquist, chief justice of the Supreme Court, maintains that the Constitution prohibits government only from endorsing religion or restricting free expression by minority faiths: "The Establishment Clause does not require that the public sector be insulated from all things which may have a religious significance."
But even if courts were sympathetic to the Indiana law, test cases and years of litigation would be required. Then, even if a Hang Ten statute were upheld, a backlash would surely result, on the part of those who would rightly fear that what was being hung was really a promotional device for evangelical Christianity.
That's the political rundown. What about the theology?
One irony is that if the Ten Commandments commend to the public a religion, the faith being touted is Judaism, not Christianity. The Ten Commandments are found in the Hebrew Bible--what Christians call the Old Testament--which forms the core of Jewish holy writ.
Christianity honors the Old Testament, but views it as amended by the New--and in the New Testament, Jesus consciously rejects the Ten Commandments, replacing them with the Six Commandments.
The story of the Six Commandments comes when a young man asks Jesus what a person must do to obtain entry to heaven. Jesus replies, "If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." (Christ often simply said "life" to mean "eternal life," implying that the spirit world is the reality and the physical world is the veil.) Instructed to "keep the commandments," the young man then inquires, "Which ones?"
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Panthers' development system just got a whole lot larger.
Tallon gets his (big) man with second overall selection.
Just where will Cats stand when - and if - the music stops at second-overall selection?
Panthers follow Avalanche with forwards going one-two in early picks
Calgary's bid of three first-rounders to assure themselves top prospect Seth Jones is rebuffed by Colorado. Could the Panthers get the same offer on draft day?
With the draft just a few weeks away, it's time to take a quick look at the players Florida could select with the second overall pick.
Seth Jones and the Portland Winterhawks will take on Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin and the rest of the Halifax Mooseheads on Sunday in Saskatoon.
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Biomedical Sciences Degree-Granting Programs
Curriculum: PhD Degree, MS Degree
Graduate students have a major role in SUNY Upstate's progressive approach to research. All exploration here is focused on better understanding health, disease, and other human conditions.
From the start, graduate students focus on research. Through their immediate work in labs and their on-going interactions with Principal Investigators, our students explore some of the most intriguing questions in the biomedical sciences.
PhD students, in particular, have great flexibility in charting their future. As part of the curriculum, they are exposed to a variety of research projects before choosing which program will ultimately bestow their degree.
PhD Degree OverviewThe PhD program—including research, didactic course work and successful defense of a dissertation—is intended to be completed in four to five years.
By the start of the second year, most PhD students have begun work on the research project that will lead to their dissertation.
Within six months of passing the qualifying exam, students put together a dissertation advisory committee of three to six faculty members from different departments.
Master's Degree
Three programs in the College of Graduate Studies offer master's degrees. Students enter these programs directly: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Cell and Developmental Biology; Pharmacology; and Physiology.
Teaching Opportunities
Most students in the College of Graduate Studies are not required to teach, but there are opportunities to do so if schedules allow.
Justin Siebert, a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Dennis Stelzner, Cell and Developmental Biology, teaches neuroanatomy to students in the College of Medicine.
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Highlight in History
On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.
On this date
In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Ala.
In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau was established.
In 1942, daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.
In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.
In 1963, the Boeing 727 went on its first-ever flight as it took off from Renton, Wash.
In 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS.
In 1983, in a dramatic reversal from fifty years earlier (see above), the Oxford Union rejected, 416-187, a motion "that this House would not fight for Queen and Country."
Ten years ago
President George W. Bush told congressional Republicans at a policy conference in West Virginia that Iraq had fooled the world for more than a decade about its banned weapons and the United Nations was now facing "a moment of truth" in disarming Saddam Hussein. The U.S. Navy ended its last bombing exercises on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. The West beat the East 155-145 in the first double overtime game in NBA All-Star history.
Five years ago
Democrat Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state; Republican Mike Huckabee outpolled John McCain in the Kansas caucuses and Louisiana primary, while McCain won the Washington caucuses. A suicide bomber blasted a political gathering in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people. Space shuttle Atlantis, carrying a European-built science lab, docked with the international space station.
One year ago
President Barack Obama freed 10 states from some of the toughest requirements of the No Child Left Behind education law. The Pentagon formally opened thousands of jobs to women in units that were closer to the front lines than ever before.


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Dance has many forms and while ballet or jazz may not be considered a sport, it's definitely a form of dance and not interpretive theater. I've always considered free dances closer to jazz/modern forms of dance than Standard and Latin dances, whereas ODs used to be more like Standard and Latin dances.
Progressive Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular
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I love that little blue dress of hers!
I love that blue dress too. She's so adorable in it.
Classroom Champions
Meryl Davis and Charlie White talk about perseverance
I received an email from the Classroom Champions org. updating me on the program. One of the teachers reported that her class had sent a question to D&W about what struggles they may have had in school as young students. In response Meryl revealed that she had been diagnosed as dyslexic when she was in the third grade further talked about the difficulties she encountered in learning to read. The teacher indicated that Meryl's response had been a great help to one of her students who is also dyslexic. It's another nice story about a lovely young women that I thought some of you would be interested in.
So much to admire about her! What a hard worker she must be in school, attending a top college and her profiency in foreign languages. She really is an amazing woman.
My Blog - Author & Figure Skating Fanatic
LIFE ON THE EDGE - my skating novel
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I'm so glad to see Meryl and Charlie participating in programs like this. I'm sure their classrooms are so excited with each communication. And it must be wonderful for Meryl to see how her story is relevant and encouraging to a child! She and Charlie are such great role models.
In honor of the end of the hockey strike, here's Meryl & Charlie being interviewed by Canadian commentators, prior to a gala, about....hockey
"A Day in the Life" of Charlie White - his latest blog (Jan. 9): http://www.teamusa.org/Team-USA-Wint...-The-Life.aspx
"Randy [Starkman (1960-April 16, 2012)] lived by the same motto as the rest of us. The Olympics isnt every four years, its every single day. He just got it." --Canadian Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden
I have been on the fence for months but with the clock ticking, I have realized I will kick myself if I pass up this opportunity to see Meryl and Charlie skate. So Omaha, here I come. (This is what credit cards are for right?)
at the picture of what Charlie looks like in the morning.


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By Seth Rudetsky
03 Apr 2012
Photo by Robb Johnston
"I'm a manatee."
"Yeah, whatevah. Listen, sea cow, you need to get a job!"
Jim is taking a page from Louis C.K.'s business model and he's filmed his own comedy show that he's selling from his website. Get thee to www.JimGaffigan.com to buy it. During my show, he was talking about food and how nobody admits to buying McDonald's, yet there are over four million hamburgers served. I haughtily told him that I don't eat so-called Big Macs because I'm a vegetarian. He then asked why I sounded like I wanted praise for it. "Being a vegetarian doesn't mean you work in a homeless shelter." Touche.
Kurt has an amazing history of Broadway highs and notorious cult flops like Dear World with Angela Lansbury and The Baker's Wife with Patti LuPone. One of the most amazing things about Victoria's past is that during A Little Night Music she played Anne, who begins the show married to Frederik (Len Cariou) but, at the end, runs off with Henrik, Frederik's son. Well, cut to: She really did run off with the actor playing Henrik! They got married and had a daughter named Ramona. The crazy part is, when A Little Night Music was revived, Ramona auditioned got the role of Anne! Talk about passing the torch. That's like the child I had with Rosie Perez getting the role of Googie Gomez in the 2040 revival of The Ritz. Wait… I didn't have a child with Rosie Perez? Then why I am constantly mailing her support checks made out to "cash"?
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At my Chatterbox, I interviewed some cast members from Godspell and found out that Lindsay Mendez's big break happened in high school when she entered a California arts competition. During the finals, it was between her and another boy…Adam Lambert! And she won! She didn't bring the video, so I don't know who sang higher or wore more makeup. I, of course, asked about devastating auditions and Uzo Aduba told me about one where she forgot her words. Not to a wordy section of the song, by the way. She started out singing, "I don't know how to…" and was stumped. Finally the pianist sang "…love him!" It's pretty bad when the lyrics you can't remember form the actual title. The same thing happened to Priscilla Lopez when she was starring in A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, for which she won the Tony Award. She had taken a week's vacation and when she came back, everything was fine 'til her big song, "Best in the World." She said she sang the first verse and got to the part where she sings "Papa said you're the best. You're the best in the world." All she remembered was "Papa said…" And then she faded out. Finally, someone offstage loudly whispered, "…you're the best!" Hmm…maybe "Papa" needs to re-think his praise.
The whole week began with the final performance of Disaster! at the Triad. The first act was amazing! Until the very end. I have an entrance where I run onstage with Felicia Finley and try to warn everyone that an earthquake is coming. I turned to run onstage and as soon as I stepped down on the floor, I thought Felicia had kicked me in the calf. With a pair of pointy shoes. Really hard. I thought maybe my calf bumped into her because I was too close to her as we were running. I kept thinking the pain would dissipate but it really hurt. I then realized it wasn't Felicia, it was something I did when I stepped down. I finished the last small scene at the end of the act and told Denis Jones, the director, that something happened to my leg. He gave me Advil (four!) and I said I could finish the show if I could lean on something. The only cane they could find was an old broom. Seriously. So, I did the first scene leaning on the broom and then I decided I looked crazy and/or like Elphaba, so I decided I would just limp for the rest of the act. The thing I was the most scared of is the scene near the end where I have to rescue people by crossing a beam that's supposed to be 50 feet over a gas tank that's on fire and surrounded by snakes. I'm supposed to cross the narrow beam and the whole rescue winds up looking like a balance beam routine a la Nadia Comăneci featuring a grand jete and scissor leap. After the show, Zak Resnick, who plays the romantic lead, asked me what I did onstage; he was in the dressing room and heard me get all my laughs. Well, since I was able to walk fine on the other leg, I just did all of my gymnastic routine focused on my right leg. As they say, the show must go on! That is, I'm needy and would rather risk a second injury than lose any laughs. Regardless, I knew I looked crazy limping through the whole show and prepped myself for a slew of "What happened?" from my various friends in the audience after the show. Cut to: People came up to me after the show, I prepared my story ("I put aside my pain for the sake of the show") and no one asked! When I finally confronted one of my friends in the audience, he told me he thought it was part of the show. That's right, the limping happened after the earthquake hits, so people thought it was a so-called character choice. Annoying! I wanted sympathy! Anyhoo, I saw an orthopedist and he said I ruptured my something or other in my calf and it will take a maximum of six weeks to heal. It actually feels a million times better already. The thing that helps me the most is that I have to wear compression socks. They're black and end right under my knee. Yes! I finally get to wear Liza Minnelli's half-stockings from "Mein Herr." And on that note, I now have to go walk around the plane for a bit to prevent what my doctor lovingly calls "deep vein thrombosis." Horrifying. And I'm out!
(Seth Rudetsky has played piano in the pits of many Broadway shows including Ragtime, Grease and The Phantom of the Opera. He was the artistic producer/conductor for the first five Actors Fund concerts including Dreamgirls and Hair, which were both recorded. As a performer, he appeared on Broadway in The Ritz and on TV in "All My Children," "Law and Order C.I." and on MTV's "Made" and "Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods." He has written the books "The Q Guide to Broadway" and "Broadway Nights," which was recorded as an audio book on Audible.com. He is currently the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius/XM radio and tours the country doing his comedy show, "Deconstructing Broadway." He can be contacted at his website SethRudetsky.com, where he has posted many video deconstructions.)