Robert Hood

Town Meeting

Rick

Wednesday Meeting

Troy is excited 'bout his human resources meeting this Wednesday, until he is confronted by Blaire. Blaire is unhappy with Troy over a recent shellfish incident, in which, Troy, uncharacteristically, chose not to eat seafood with his fellow office mates. Fortunately, this awkward meeting, which happens at a busy intersection just feet from the office building, goes surprisingly well, at first. But, then Troy, not meaning to be rude, tries to excuse himself from the conversation. Unfortunately, the moment he chooses to drop from the discussion just happens to be the moment that Blaire is explaining a recent tragedy that has befallen him, the death of his uncle, Marlowe. This is the same uncle, who upon dying, had forgotten to update his will to include Blaire. Blaire had been understandably shaken by this blow, because he had stayed with and cared for his uncle for weeks before his uncle died. So, when he returned to work, his office mates had offered to take him out for a shellfish treat to help get his mind off this injustice. This brings us back to Troy, who declined to go out and eat shellfish with Blaire and the others. And, now Troy has revealed that he is uninterested in their current conversation and that he must go, because he has an important human resources meeting to attend. This, of course, leads to a scuffle.

La Betsy

La Betsy, is a failed opera singer who now has to work at the local community theater. She has terrible pitch, but because of her overbearing personality, no one has the courage to let her know. Now everyone is doomed to sit through her tonally challenged arias that last much longer than they did in rehearsal.

But you know, at the end of the night, when the performance is over, La Betsy goes home by herself. All of the other players, who understandably don't want to go out for a drink with La Betsy after the show, don't invite her out for a drink after the show. So La Betsy goes home, alone. Fixes a drink by herself, listens to that one CD that she was fortunate to have made of her singing that famous part in Aida. It's not a famous CD or even a good CD (by operatic standards), and it was made like 10 years ago when her future seemed so much brighter...

Of course, now if she knew that that would be her best, most shining moment, then she would have done things differently. Probably enjoyed the moment a little bit more, but all she's got now is a cat, a half drunk glass of wine and reruns of Sex and the City.

RODRIGO

Heaven