So yesterday I went to Valerie's house to teach her the accent, and my God, I don't know if the teaching will kill me faster than the learning will kill her or the other way around.

She's not just British, she's Hayley Mills British. When we read it the other day, she sounded exactly like Hayley Mills trying to do an American accent, and it turns out that they are from the same town.

I never really noticed before, but Hayley has a very specific accent, there's a sort of openness about it, with vowels that are very different from anything that I have ever heard before--in other words, there are some vowel sounds that would be the same in both a standard British accent and a Missouri accent that are actually different in HayleyMillsian, like the "EE" sound. We say "EE", the Missouri folk say "EE", the Brits say "EE", but the Millsians say "AY".

Which means that poor Valerie had actually twice as many sounds to learn than most people do when learning the accent. In an hour and a half, we did one and a half scenes and I nearly had a stroke. She said that she was going to have to stay home from work for the next four weeks and just work on the accent.

Today's horoscope:
The same old thing bores you. Switch tactics. Dive into your new project with relish and verve. Your next goal evolves as you find your way toward it. With luck, nobody's in any hurry for your results.

One year ago today:
No rehearsal yesterday, thank you very much, Jesus. No rehearsal tonight either, my brain might get confused and think that I have a life or something, but I doubt it.

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