Christine Baranski

            On Wednesday when I got up my right hip was a lot more sore than the dull ache I’d been experiencing for the last few days. That told me that riding my bike to Coxwell the afternoon before was a bit too far and that I’d have to ease back for a while. It didn’t feel that bad after yoga but I’m going to go with how it feels when I get up.

            I spent half an hour synchronizing the sound and video for “L'alcool". I got it so it’s just so slightly out of sync that it produces an interesting echo effect. I’m going to have to listen to it again to see if I like it that way. I could always make one video with the echo and another without.

            It often seems that the first dream I have when I’m drifting off to sleep involves me almost hitting someone with my bike and then slightly waking up.

During a siesta I dreamed of someone whose pictures I’d seen many times on an amateur porn site. She was lounging on the floor of a party in a short skirt and tight top and I noticed and recognized her as I had just gotten up to leave. She noticed me too and I lingered. Our eyes met and it looked like she might get up to come with me.

            A 60% chance of rain had been forecast for the afternoon around the time I would have gone for my bike ride and so I decided not to go. Closer to the time I would normally get ready to leave the forecast changed to 30% precipitation but it was already on my mind that for the sake of my hip it might be wise to take a day off from riding anyway and so I stayed home.

            I weighed 91 kilos around that time. Three hours later I weighed 90 kilos. Maybe I peed a kilo.

            I worked on my bed bug story, my alley poem and translations of Les Enfants du Paradis and Les Ramparts du Sud.

            For dinner I had an egg with one piece of toast and a beer and watched the two episodes of the Big Bang Theory that lead up to the series finale.

            Spoiler alert!
            Sheldon and Amy try to apologize for Amy’s outburst against the two researchers that accidentally proved their asymmetry theory. But Dr Pemberton says that all scientific theories are proved by accident, which makes Amy mad again because it’s not true. Dr. Pemberton and Dr. Campbell may win the Nobel Prize for proving a theory that they don’t even understand. Suddenly Kripke reveals that he has proof that Pemberton plagiarized his PHD thesis. If Amy and Sheldon made use of that information they could ruin both Pemberton and Campbell’s chances at stealing the Nobel from Amy and Sheldon. When Amy and Sheldon tell their friends about their moral dilemma Leonard decides to get the dirt on Pemberton from Kripke. But when Penny tells Amy what Leonard is planning it puts her and Sheldon back in the ethical problem because they know. Finally Amy and Sheldon meet with Pemberton and Campbell and give them Kripke’s proof. This has almost the same effect as exposing Pemberton because Campbell hadn’t known about the plagiarism. Campbell reveals that he’s sleeping with Pemberton’s wife and they begin to physically fight. Pemberton gets fired and Campbell has lost his reputation.

            In the second story Leonard’s mother Beverly comes to visit. She is strangely nice and taking an interest in Leonard’s work. But later she reveals that she is researching a book about Leonard’s reactions. Leonard gets upset and finally confronts his mother. He’s about to tell her all the ways she failed him as a mother but then he stops and tells her he forgives her. She says that it feels good to be forgiven and then she hugs him.

            The two mothers on this show are both very sexy.

            Beverly is played by Christine Baranski.