Anyway, my friend Margo and I are meeting for dinner first, and then we're going to see Elizabeth talk about her "Swimsuit Area"...yup, it's about that. It's frakking hot here and hopefully the theater won't be horrible, but it probably will be. I'm bringing a fan.
Well, I forgot to bring a fan, but the program worked as a fan, for the most part. Anyway, the show ("The Swimsuit Area") was fantastic. Elizabeth is a wonderful writer and story-teller. The show was about her realizing at a young age that she didn't want to have kids. And then she realized that she
couldn't have kids. And she loved that she didn't have to worry about using birth control. And then she realized that she was pregnant and had a decision to make. She made the decision to end the pregnancy (by legal means). And then she found out that she had a lot of large fibroid tumors on her uterus and she didn't have medical insurance, so she "fake" domestic partnered (but for real) with her roommate and officially was able to get on
her health plan to get surgery. Then marriage equality happened and her "fake" (but legally real) domestic partnership would automatically become a real marriage. Her "partner"/roommate then wanted to get real married to her boyfriend and wanted Elizabeth to officiate*, so Elizabeth went online and became a real minister in the Universal Life Church and officiate her former "fake" domestic partner's real marriage.
Anyway, it was very good, and there were a lot of side stories. The house was almost full (it only holds 42 people). It was quite warm and we all survived. The show was less than two hours with the intermission. That really helped with the heat. I am very glad that I got to see this show.
*During the show, Elizabeth never mentioned about dissolving their "fake" domestic partnership, but I assumed that they did that so that it wouldn't automatically turn into a real marriage and that her roommate could get real married.