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...that hour, "It's just you and the books," he said. "If I study at home, I tend to get comfortable and fall asleep. [Cabot's] a pretty sterile environment...
...king), the ballet is divided in two acts. The first act enters on a Christmas party at the home of the Silberhaus family, where the mysterious Dr. Drosselmeyer presents his god-daughter, little Clara Silberhaus, the very special gift of a nutcracker. Later that night, when everyone else is asleep, Clara sneaks to the drawing room to find the nutcracker and falls asleep briefly, only to wake to find herself surrounded by a horde of enormous mice. As the room and everything in it (except Clara) grows to a monstrous size, the nutcracker comes to life and leads...
...extraneous and annoying presence of Drosselemeyer's nephew, who imitates his uncle's every move and gesture, down to the eyepatch. The magic, after all, is between Clara and Drosselmeyer; the nephew only gets in the way--especially at the end of the party, when Clara falls asleep holding the nutcracker, and the nephew takes it from her, ruining our sense of the bond between the girl and her godfather. Thankfully, the nephew doesn't return for the rest of the ballet...
Toothpaste is pretty damn unsanitary. I realized this with a new vengeance recently while brushing my teeth. Bleary-eyed and half-asleep, I had squirted too much of the stuff onto my toothbrush and found myself trying to scrape the excess back into the tube. I awoke with a start when I saw what I was doing. All those nasty little microbes, exfoliated off each toothbrush with painful accuracy back onto the tube for the next user...
Streisand: And we're just about to fall asleep. And he says, "I don't want to fall asleep." And so I said, "Why not?" And he says, "Because then I'll miss...