TWoP recap (by Al Lowe) Lorelai? Lorelai? (last week's episode) :

... I'll feel for Rory in this great episode. My husband is working through his comps process for his PhD this week, and our entire household, down to the dog, is hopped up on the stress. I haven't had so many anxiety dreams since I...was about to graduate from college, actually, when I would often dream that I suddenly realized I had enrolled in a class at the beginning of the semester, forgotten to ever attend it, and now would never graduate as a result. I still have those dreams occasionally, and I graduated from college more than a decade ago. ["Ditto." -- Miss Alli] yeah I dream about a paper I was supposed to write (like a senior essay or something) that no one has been talking about but I am realizing I have been supposed to have written it and I haven't and, right, won't graduate or something. it's vague when I wake up but what's almost clear is that I am actually surprised (once awake) and so relieved that it is not the case, I did write my papers, it's not still going on. it's remarkable: I know writing papers made me anxious, but it's not like I ever actively worried about graduating did I? just sth about making sth from nothing. but in the dreams it seems so ominous still hanging over my head. and yes, it's like something one has forgotten. and oh no. and hoping that people not talking about it means you don't have to do it. but no hope, you do.
but then I am awake and I don't. yay.
also have recurring school setting dreams that are sth about choosing a school. high school I think. choosing between two, niether of which I like. somewhat like the actual BCC - RM situation I guess, bcs I think there's one that's people I know but don't feel part of and once with all people I do not know. but again remarkable: i don't remember this being as weighty in actuality as it feels in the dream. or feeling so trapped between two unpleasant choices. I think RM was pretty much fine. anyway in the dreams I have to finish high school and it seems very unhappy. don't want to. and sometimes maybe it is a case of having to go back to do something forgotten.
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Immediately, Zach puts his own happiness on the back burner and tries to provide a shoulder for Luke to cry on. Luke, however, refuses to admit his deep and utter flannel-soaking sadness. 'I'm sorry,' Zach says, 'I get it. You're processing.' Lane arrives for her free night on the town to go with Zach to Kacey's. 'He just got some totally devastating news,' Zach stage-whispers in her ear. Luke: 'It's not a big deal.' Zach: 'He's still processing.' Lane and Zach both try to get Luke to come along and drown his sorrows. 'You guys go ahead,' he says. 'Maybe I'll catch up.'
Outside, as they walk to the bar, Zach notices how quiet Lane is. 'I just kind of realized something today,' she says. 'I realized I can't go on tour.' She says she would really love to, and that she's really sorry. 'You don't have to be sorry about anything,' Zach says. 'I'll just call Graham tomorrow and tell him we can't go.' Aw. But that's not what Lane's saying. 'I'm saying I can't go,' she says. 'I still want you to go.' Zach: 'You do?' Zach: "You do?" Lane: "Hell yeah." Awesome.
yeah Lane & Zach were v likeable.

and this re Boy George .. I remember playing w Whit in backyard and one of yes would have Boy George as a boyfriend and one of us Michael Jackson. (what boyfriends!) or where we pretending to be them?

Kirk is KILLING the place with his own take on Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" Oh, Boy George, you crazy, crazy man. Please get your insane ass in gear and come back out to take over the world. We are simply sitting here waiting.

...Lorelai puts her shot down just in time for her song to cue up. "Happy Graduation," she says, as strains from "I Will Always Love You" fill the bar. This is sweet for approximately nine reasons, three of which are as follows: 1) I don't know if she's trained or anything, but it's obvious Lauren Graham can actually sing and she's faking bad singing. Bad singing, if one is capable of carrying a tune, is hard to fake; 2) The music is that of Dolly's original; 3) The crowd or townies loves it, cheering when she kicks into the chorus.

As she hits the real sad part, where Dolly sings to Porter hmm? that she'll always have bittersweet memories of him, Luke walks in the door. Lorelai falters but keeps going. He grins when he sees her up there, but the townies and Rory notice the change in Lorelai. She gets herself together, though, and strongly sings on. .. Lorelai finishes the song, singing over and over again that she'll always love him, looking right at his face. And, with a little shrug and a wave, she leaves the stage to the cheers of an adoring and moved crowd. If you ain't crying, you're a good bit deader inside than you should be. I don't care if we're supposed to think that she loves him now, or that she was saying she loves him but will have to give him up, or that she always loved him even when she did give him up, or whatever. Don't care. It was awesome. And what balls to have her sing the entire song. May those who fail to nominate Lauren Graham for an Emmy and Golden Globe suffer boils and frogs unto their fifth generation. So sweet and well done with the whole town there and everybody playing it to the hilt. I loved it.