Hi Jerry--

Looks like it's still just thee and me.

Just got back from rehearsal.

Had an interesting experience on the way out on the subway. Sat next to a guy, about 18-20, who had a notebook with English on one side and a language I didn't recognize on the right. Turned out he was a Turkish student studying English. So, as I like to do with a new language, I asked him how to say hello and goodbye-- in Turkish. When he told me I wrote it down in Cyrillic--since it was actually easier to write what he said that way than in English--English doesn't have exact equivalents to his words. It's interesting that knowing something about another language--in this case Russian--helped write a third--Turkish. There are certain guttural sounds we don't have. So that was fun.

And I sat next to a friend at rehearsal who couldn't figure out what I had written--even though he's a Russian expert. So I told him he need not be concerned not recognizing the words--since it was Turkish.

How's that for small talk--(pretty small)-- around the table?