TONIGHT ON DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. After 44 years, Marie still resents being the middle child. Michaela gets the seventeenth rejection of her suspense novel. Georgina wishes she could apply a time change now and get herself an extra hour to catch up on things. As Nellie wakes up from a dream, she's filled with anxiety over whether she's merely a character in someone else's dream.

Tonight on "Desperate Housewives" is a weekly series that premiered on Blog About Town on October 23, 2005. Last week's installment is here.

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