I got confused. I thought one actress was another woman’s appendicitis.

When I approached the woman, she was doubled over, in what appeared to be some attack to her abdomen. I spoke to her, offering my assistance. She heard my words of “Nistris,de-nookeneueru.” Although, frankly, how she could have misheard me was beyond me. I spoke as clear as a bell to this woman.

This actress I am referring to had just been let go from a show that I’d hardly watched. So when I approached her, during the earlier part of the dinner party, she had already been told of her unemployment by her agent. She struck me as one of those people, that when caught off guard by bad news, is incapable of hearing clearly (Something about the blood rushing to one’s head, creating either a distorted echo or pulling in periphery sounds, causing the wrong sentences to blend with grammatically correct sentences, giving birth to a new array of words–or just gibberish in her case). Which only caused her to look up from her pain and say to me, “I’m sorry. I can’t multi-hear.”

Whatever that means.