"Crystal adjusted her under garment, skirt, checked herself in a full-length mirror, and led me back to the green room. Terry gave us both an 'I-know-...hat-you-were-doing' glance. We all sat in near silence listening to an increasingly raucous band and crowd. I started to feel some of the crowd's energy. The band was good, and Cindy Wonder had a sound sort of like a country Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.After what seemed like a long time, Ellen came into the ready room and gave us a five-minute. ”“Well we are going to make sure that you get all the dog dick you can handle. But first, hop up on the table. Face down.”He helps Debbie onto the table, and she lies face down. Then then man walks off screen and comes back rolling a trolley with a tattoo machine and ink on it.“Debbie is looking a little plain and I think she needs some added color. So, let’s see I we can make some minor changes to this girl and spice things up a bit.”The Controller starts up the machine, inks the needle, and. I was slightly reluctant to say at first but, in the end, I admittedthat I had always had a thing about corsets. Not those cheap, thinthings you often see in lingerie catalogs. But proper, heavily bonedcorsets that really pull the waist in.Lisa smiled broadly when I said that. "You know Dee," she said. "Ithink you would look fantastic in a good Victorian style corset." No. I didn't mean me to wear one," I corrected her. "I'd like to seeyou in a tight corset." And you will sweetheart," Lisa. But we're in the academic arena for right now and it just makes sense to us to play around inside the boundaries and get those master's degrees.The arena requires that we actually attend some classes, but it's funny because the same professors pushing those classes are the ones who signed off on the bachelor's degrees and who tell us, basically, to give them an excuse to sign off on master's degrees. Still, material is there and appearances must be maintained. It's a happy thing, for the most.