This morning I'm sitting at Panera in Charlottesville, taking some of my own advice about character development. My Sound of Music role was changed recently, to that of Gauleiter Zeller.
My first task was to look up "Gauleiter" - the leader of a province of the Nazi empire... and I plunged into various arcanities of the Nazi political and military rank system. Everything was very interesting and just fine, until a pair of other customers came and sat, sharing my table. They started speaking, and lo and behold, they happen to be Israeli! Here I am with an exposed notepad, with a fairly complete list of major Nazi war criminals and details of their foreign occupation. Eugh... awkward.
I pretty quickly switched the object of my study to something less topical. Like kittens. I'm studying kittens.
