Let us Look Back to June 8, 1991...

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So the NOVA ScienceNOW awesome people are coming over tomorrow evening so we can shoot some pop culture/scifi stuff for them to use. In my segment, I talk about how my dad and I used to watch science fiction movies when I was a kid, so the nice NOVA people asked me to dig up a photo of us together when I was younger. The rents' scanned and sent this one to me - it's the evening party after my bat mitzvah celebration earlier that day, on the morning of June 8, 1991. We had a party that night in the backyard and people stood on the deck and drank wine and we had a photographer (Robert Klein, who was both deaf and on the Board of Education) and my whole extended family was there and all our close friends, and it was a lovely suburban NJ evening, and of course, there were
fireflies.

So, left to right: Mom, Dad, Becky (aged 12 years and 9 months) and kid brother Adam, who was just about to turn 10.

I was in seventth grade and the orthodontist had just taken off my braces (so the bat mitavah photos would be pretty). I teased my hair to make it look curly for the party. I listened to Top 40 music on Z-100 and had an inante ability for being the 100th caller, so I won lots of CDs and tickets to events and shows 'n' stuff. I asked for a CD player and suggested that I liked (and thusly received)
1). REM's new album (Out of Time)
2). The Who (they gave me Who's Next)
3). Rod Stewart (I have no idea why. I got "Greatest Hits")
When I went shopping, days later, for my first CDs to buy my myself, I bought REM's "Document" and Led Zepellin's "ZoSo" album. I thought I was cool. I wanted, more than anything, to grow up and become an actress. My friend Amy and I took acting classes with Paul Perez and Janine at "Drama For Life." I got a C in gym because I failed volleyball. During the PSAT's, we had a break and were playing Limbo in Mr. Troy's Physical Science classroom. My breasts got stuck on the limbo pole, and I happened to be wearing my Twin Peaks teeshirt, so this one boy Todd called me "Twin Peaks" for a while. I was madly in love with Agent Dale Cooper. I used to wear, in the winter, green shorts over black spandex. I pegged my jeans. I cuffed my socks. I had a collection of slap bracelets.

But, mostly, I was the most awesome little dorky mcdork dork EVER.