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Section A: Personal Stuff 1: Your name? Erin Michelle Roll 2: Your age? 21 3: Hometown? I think it's somewhere on this planet... 4: Your-ahem-relationship status? Single and loving it 5: Your gender? Female 6: Your religion? Catholic Section B: The Muppet Stuff 1. Three favorite Muppets...

I had a Kermit doll when I was a little kid...but it was a fairly accurate representation of the real thing. I think it was the kind sold by the Smithsonian. Now, if only they'd make a nice-looking Scooter plush...

Nora: Sounds like Ryan's not feeling to great. MN: Well, ya know, it's been one of those days. I nearly drowned and froze to death on my way back from art class. Storyteller: Yeah, and (snerk-k-k-k) I think I'b cubbing down wid a code. MN: Wid a code...hmm, is that some spy flick I haven't heard...

Jaw surgery...there seems to be a lot of that going on these days around here. Hope you're feeling okay, Barry...and it sounds like the surgery went well.

(group is gathered around the dinner table) Storyteller: All right, let's have a recap of everyone's day. Nora: Okay. (clears throat) I went to my classes, ran a few errands, did my shift at Coming Unbound, that sort of thing. MN: I went to my classes...and my history prof completely forgot...

Blurgh...some of those toys really are hideous.

Sounds like it's quite the popular film. I'm inclined to go catch The Good Shepherd or something like that this weekend. Got a call from home: we've gotten a postcard from the quilt people thanking us for Richard's panel. We'll be notified when it gets attached to a block, which could take...

Storyteller: Oh, the college girls are exhausted. Nora: No sense repeating the obvious, Storyteller. (turns to MN) What do you have, Erin? MN: Two newspaper stories and an ode to write, a chapter to read on ancient Egypt, and I have to start reading Dangerous Liasons. You? Nora: Two chapters on...

Too true. Sometimes I wonder what Richard would have gone on to accomplish had he not died at 40. Maybe he would have been next in line to direct a Muppet movie, perhaps? But during the 40 years he was on this Earth, he sure accomplished a heck of a lot...like making millions of people around...

MN: Yeah, you'd think they'd be good enough to let us have MLK Day off. But the profs will use any excuse to annoy us. Nora: We were supposed to have tomorrow off? Nuts.

Oh, man, I've got a number of favorites. A few are: "Once Upon A Time I Knew My Name," "Is It True (The Wizard's song)," "Sunlight and Shadow," "Follow Me," the song of the ancient Fraggles and the opening theme.

Yeah, happy birthday, Vic!

Storyteller: Now, you girls have your first day of class tomorrow, so I want you both to get a decent night's sleep, no excessive amounts of caffeine or loud rock music... Nora: No fair, why do you get to have all your classes starting in the late morning? MN: Because I knew that Monday nights...

And MN hopes she can get some well deserved sleep too, Will. But I've arranged my schedule so that I don't have any classes before 11:30 (and no internship this semester), so that should help ease the brunt of the red-eye editing nights. (I swear, these other editors are zombies) Sara, you...

Ah, Scred. A face only a mother (and Lily Tomlin and Gilda Radner) could love. Yeah, Gilda seemed to like working with the Muppets...and after all, she did eventually cross the pond to work with Jim and the gang on TMS. You know, I think there's an SNL reference in the Roger Moore episode of...

Yeah, those net service providers can be pretty ruthless sometimes. I hope you work out an okay deal, Marty. And yes, sleep is good; my job as copy editor for the campus rag kept me up pretty much all night on Monday nights, which resulted in my staggering into my paper internship on Tuesday...

Storyteller: Say, Erin, did you ever finish that bathrobe you said you were working on? MN: Yeah, you've seen me wearing it around the dorm. It's been freezing lately. Nora: Right, I think the thermostat's broken. MN: No, thermostat's just fine. It's just been freezing lately. Storyteller: So...

Hang in there, Kathy. We'll be thinking of you when you go in to have the extraction.

MN: Well, guys, are we all staying on? Storyteller: Why, yes, it's good fun being here. Nora: I suppose so. My brother's gotten even worse lately. MN: Okay, then, we're settled.

Let me get this straight: Richard Hunt? An extremely shy man? Or any of the other Muppeteers, for that matter? Thou shalt not generalize, Morely. Nor shalt thou patronize. Or editorialize. Simply put, thou shalt just knock off the -izes. And you're right, Marianne. When I saw that no one...