She played Crewman Cutler on "Enterprise" in three episodes two years ago. I had a complete and utter crush on her, as did thousands of other nerdy little dudes on the Internet.
SOMERVILLE, MA - Saw a couple deciding on marriage vows in a café late last night. She was clearly very into the whole process; he had a shaved head. She kept reciting phrases from a book - a Choose Your Own Marriage Vows book, I can only assume - and saying to him, "Are you okay with that?" He would nod. She would pick up from the exact subtleties of that nod whether or not he actually was okay with it, or didn't want to argue, or genuinely hated it, or didn't care.
It seemed to me an odd place, and an odd technique, for choosing perhaps the most significant words you'll ever say to the most significant person in your life. It seems like a very intimate thing. And out there on a ratty - but trés, trés hip - couch, they picked phrases out of a book. How sterile. How impersonal.
But marriage vows aren't really for the two getting married, are they? They have all their lives to tell each other how they feel. Frequently, one would hope.
No, it's for everyone else there. The whole ceremony is a ritual in declaring to everybody else how they feel about each other. For marking down in law, in the collective power of the state, that they love each other.
Odd, eh?
Then the café closed and everyone got free muffins. Wouldn't want to just throw them out, after all.
