If you've encountered me in the past few weeks you may be wondering, Eric, why the long face?

I will tell you.

I am in a show right now that sucks every emotion out of me. I play roughly five different people that use every type of emotion I can possibly muster to perform and express.

When I am done with the show, I have nothing left in the tank; I have no emotions left to give.

I just don't care about anything and I couldn't care if I wanted to.

I am surprised I can still recoup enough to perform the next day at a quality level. I guess I can't say that, tomorrow will be the first day we've done the show in front of people for two days straight, so, who knows what kind of performance I'll offer up tomorrow.

I am not a huge extrovert so it's hard for me to get myself to express that much in such a short time. See the show and you'll know what I'm talking about, about the level of emotion I go through.

You ask me, why the long face?

I have been in a very apologetic mood lately, and most of me wants to say "I'm sorry," but I'm not going to do that this time.

To those that mistake my emotionless demeanor as an insult, which is a few of you so far, I can't help that. It is what it is. Maybe later I'll care, but for now, you're not speaking to Eric, but a stoic body that can't evoke emotion. Hope you can understand. See you Sunday when the play's over.