The play I'm working on deals heavily in medical ethics. As a matter of course, we had a medical ethics professor from Washington University at St. Louis come into rehearsal today to speak with the cast and artistic team.
She had a tremendous speech impediment.
Don't get me wrong, the professor had a wealth of wisdom to bring to the conversation, and even read the script so as to tailor her discussion and citations to the work at hand. Hearing about real life fraud cases in the medical research field helped add a good deal of perspective to our rehearsal process.
Seriously though, she sounded like a cartoon duck.
As such, I found the best way to deal with this mentally was to imagine her as such.
But shit, this duck person sure had a hell of a lot to bring to a discussion about ethics. Who am I to judge such a well-read creature?
Furthermore, I've discovered a great way to pass one's time while not discussing human research boards with matriculated anatidae is working out at a po-dunk college gymnasium while listening to an audiobook of Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion." The book is narrated by the author and his wife, both of whom are too British to exist in our dimension. Listening to them speak while trying to sort through poorly-organized free weights is a mildly psychedelic experience.
And that's what happened today.
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