To get Stage 2 sleep, riders must relax their muscles and stop moving their eyes entirely.
Of course, leave it to Oakland to get stage fright after a two-game winning streak: the team was considering benching Jason Campbell in favor of Bruce Gradkowski, generating a quarterback controversy for its own sake.
This is certainly no time to get stage fright, with 14 games still to go, and it was particularly surprising given Sadio Mané, Liverpool's most dangerous player, had given them the lead after only three minutes.
Such was her unfounded fear of what they would think of her going from booker to comedian, she would do open spots at any club around Brighton except her own, in order to get stage time without them seeing her.
"One of the reasons you don't see legions of black performers there," Cyrus McQueen, an African-American improviser who studied at Upright Citizens Brigade, wrote in an e-mail, "is because I don't know many minorities willing or able to work for nothing to get stage time".
"When I started to get stage fright," Ms. Corman said, "she told me, 'That's right on time.' " Ms. Corman, who was only 16 when her own mother died, did not slide into the choice to stay home, but actively made it.
