I don't even have a house and I'm all about getting tools and paints and doing stuff to one. One I don't have!

I think it's perfectly normal 1) to imagine owning a house, and 2) to imagine what improvements you would make to it. Years before we actually moved into our house, for example, my mother would go to the wallpaper department at Sears and thumb through all the different samples to see what would look good on her kitchen walls.

Again, it's perfectly normal. (If anything, it shows you're goal-oriented.) Now, when you are so sure you're going to marry this one guy you know that you even send out invitations and book a hall for the reception...and the guy hasn't even proposed...!

I think all tool stores are wonderful. So many mysterious gadgets that help tie the world together; I can walk through a woodworker's shop (Woodcraft has opened near us) and spend a happy half-hour without being remotely tempted to take up woodwork.

And visiting a wood store is much, much cheaper than visiting a bookstore, a sewing store, or a craft store.

You have more faith in people than I do, I suppose.

Actually, Kristen, I think our two amounts of faith in people are about the same. You're cynical enough not to believe these women didn't know their gyno wasn't licensed; and I'm cynical enough to believe that not only did they not know, but they probably, for the most part, didn't care (b/c, as I suggested before, the rates were probably outta-sight). What I'd like to know, though, is what transpired to expose the gyno as the fraud he/she really was. Did someone blow the whistle when the rates went up...or what?

much cheaper than visiting a bookstore

Ain't that the truth! Preferred Reader clubs? Are the work of the devil.

I can walk through a woodworker's shop (Woodcraft has opened near us) and spend a happy half-hour without being remotely tempted to take up woodwork.

Woodcraft is one of my favorite toy stores. I want to walk out with all their hardwoods.

Cindy --

Strega, was the meta important to your theory. That is, can't you just point out the content of the scenes cut from Home, and how they echo the people-suck thesis from Reprise (or whichever that was)?

Oh, sure. It doesn't keep me from thinking it's a neat parallel and getting all excited about it. I just wondered if it was intentional. If things had to be planned for me to like them, I wouldn't like seasons 3 & 4 so much.

But I was right about "Nautilus" and that's all that really matters! Well, that and my ego are all that matter.

Matt -

Remember that filler bit of live-but-stop-motion film that had the professorly-looking guy surrounded by 5 electrified lizards?

Strega! I was just gonna call and pick your brain. But then you're one of about half the numbers lost in the great cell phone transfer disaster of 2005.

I canna call ita, Kat, my boss, and a buncha other numbers. Including my grampa who died over a year ago and the Buffy production offices, which are closed.

You're still a meanie. But email's on the way.

Buffy production offices, which are closed.

I think I still have security's phone number. For posterity's sake.

oh wait. forget that.

Looks like Aidan is available on the down low at mininova.org.

Dead babies. Good times, good times.

Damn the dialup. I mean, I would never do anything bad.