The Chronicles Of Jessica

I brought a slice of mozzarella to work with me today, to go on the veggie burger I was going to have for lunch, and I didn't realize there was a piece of wax paper stuck to it until I had eaten almost the whole thing. Can that be bad for me?

Probably it's just extra fiber.

I was late for work the other day because I started watching "Dirty Dancing" on Encore while I was eating breakfast and I wanted to see the part where he gets Baby out of the corner. Apparently it's the 20th anniversary of the movie, which is almost impossible for me to believe, because I remember when I saw it like it was yesterday. I was (apparently) eleven, and I was visiting my father and I think the Superbowl was on or something like that, so I got him to drop me off at the mall so I could go to the movies, and that was what I saw. It must have been at least PG, so I'm not sure why they let me in without a parent, but I always looked older than I was when I was a kid. People used to come up to me in stores and ask me for help when I was way too young to even have a job. I just had this mature look about me, I suppose, which is ironic because now my appearance is so youthful and girlish. Everything is reversed.

Anyway, at eleven, this movie was the epitome of romance to me. My mind was blown. This is what love between adults looked like - dirty dancing. Now that I look at it, of course, it's like a bunch of sweaty teenagers grinding on each other and it's not as appetizing to me. Once you become an adult you have to kind of take the long view of these things; I mean what's so great about winding up with Patrick Swayze, he's a dirty dancer for god's sake. That's a career? Do you get dental with a position doing dirty dancing? Probably he only did that in summer, anyway. What did he do the rest of the year, just hang out or something? And is he still going to be grinding on other women after they get married? That's not the kind of thing you want to put up with. I'm just saying.

But speaking of employment! Guess what? You'll never guess, I'll just tell you. I just got cast in a world premiere at Woolly Mammoth here in Washington that goes up this fall! It's called "Current Nobody" and it starts rehearsing October 2nd. I am thrilled - I just wish it started this week, I could stop sitting here in TempLand eating wax paper and watching the clock.

We had a great trip up to Maine, except that we got stuck at JFK for 9 hours on the way there and it rained the whole time. I guess that doesn't sound that great, but you know. We don't sweat the small stuff. My aunts threw me a beautiful wedding shower and so many people came, it was really incredible. I just wish I had had more to eat. I'm serious, the food was phenomenal but I was so afraid of spilling something on my dress or having someone snap a photo of me with french toast hanging out of my cakehole that I barely ate anything, which is regrettable. We did chow down at the tasting for the reception, though, which was great; we got to try all the different things they serve and pick what we want people to have a choice of for dinner. After Paul got over his initial disappointment that nothing was in nugget form, we decided on a rosemary pork tenderloin and a chicken cordon bleu. I think I'm probably going to run into the same problem going hungry, though, because you know if there's any girl who's bound to wind up with cordon bleu sauce gracing the lap of her wedding gown, that girl's gonna be me.