Mayim Bialik

            I spent a lot of Sunday writing about Saturday’s Food Bank Adventure.

For lunch I finished my chilli with a toasted foccaccia bun.

That evening I got caught up on my journal.

            I weighed myself before dinner and I was 94.2 kilos. That’s not much higher than Sunday evening of a week ago when I was 93.8kilos, so maybe Sunday is the heavy day of the week. A couple of days ago I was 92.3 kilos naked.

            I had an egg, toast and a beer for dinner and watched the last episode of the 11^th season of The Big Bang Theory followed by the first episode of the last season.

            Spoiler alert!

            The first story was about Amy and Sheldon’s wedding. Penny picks up Amy’s parents at the airport. Her mother is an overbearing person played by Kathy bates while her father is very much like Leonard. Raj picks up Sheldon’s mother and sister. His sister is pregnant but separated and so Raj of course is suddenly interested.

            It has been arranged for Will Wheaton of Star Trek to officiate at the wedding but Howard finds a stray dog and contacts the caregiver through the information on the collar. When the doorbell rings the caregiver is Mark Hammel of Star Wars. Mark asks Howard what he can do to repay him and so Howard gets Hammel to officiate. At the wedding when Will says to Mark, “At last we meet!” Mark has no idea whom he is.

            Sheldon is having trouble getting his bowtie straight but Amy tells him that sometimes perfection lies in the imperfections. Suddenly Sheldon is inspired to rework his string theory according to asymmetry. They forget about the wedding and begin writing out formulas in lipstick on the mirror. Meanwhile the guests are waiting and so Howard asks Hammel to answer questions about Star Wars. The questions are so obscure that he doesn’t know the answers but Stuart answers every one and suddenly Stuart’s date and new employee Denise says to him, “You are so hot right now!” Leonard goes to get Amy and Sheldon but when he sees the formulas on the mirror he gets caught up in them too and forgets about the wedding. When Amy’s mother stands up to protest the wait, Penny commands her firmly to sit down. No one has spoken to her that way before. Penny gathers Amy and Sheldon and the ceremony begins. Mark Hammel bursts into tears at several points and needs a moment. As the bride and groom leave, Barry Kripke sings “At wast my wove has come awong / My wonewy days awa ovew …”

            In the second story Sheldon and Amy are on their Honeymoon in New York, but Amy gets frustrated that Sheldon is regimenting their Honeymoon including the sex. Finally she says that they’ll compromise. He can regiment everything but not tell her that he’s doing so.

            Meanwhile back in Pasadena, Amy’s father has been hiding out in Amy and Sheldon’s apartment. Similarities begin to show themselves between Amy’s mother and Penny and Amy’s father and Leonard. Leonard points those similarities out to Penny, but she is offended because she does not think she is as overbearing as Amy’s mother.

            Interesting that Mayim Bialik, who plays Amy, is the only actual scientist on the show.

            I had never looked to see the name of the actor that plays Sheldon’s mother but when I did the name Laurie Metcalf sounded very familiar. Then I did a search and saw that she played Jackie on Roseanne and the same character on the Conners. The fact that I didn’t recognize her is a tribute to her acting. She is so much sexier as Mary Cooper than as Jackie.