K-Bug is settling in at Trader Joe's and their cashiers are encouraged to make small talk with the customers. Pre-inside information, I thought I just kept hitting chatty people, but it s a company thing.

oh good , Allyson already mentioned it in press while I was catchin gup.

We were back in New England last may. We went to a party where , we knew only a few people. If the party had been here in Ca - instantly a group would have surrounded the strangers - food and wine thrust in their hands and conversation. Back in VT - we were pointed to food and drink - polite greeting were exchanged and that was it. I don't know if I can ever go back to that.

I love chatting with people - most of the time. If the Packers are on and some idiot's trying to have a conversation with me in the bar, they can die now (this has happened at least twice this season. I don't get it - it's not like I'm shy about watching the game).

People who talk to me when I'm trying to read are lucky to not get beheaded. IJS. Only exception is conversations that start with "Oh, I loved that book!"

Andre Royo said once that one day after he was made up as Bubbles a junkie gave him a blast-worth and said "You need this more than I do." Royo calls that moment his "street Oscar", but I'm sure that's not what Lisah meant. Aw, Hil, so I guess what you're saying is Toby Ziegler and I won't ever make Eeyore love together, because I'm not fictional-Jewish. Bummer.(Aw, he killed me, buying that house in the suburbs and all that, and then "You're too sad for me!" What kind of crap is that? He is just the right amount of sad for me.) Oh, jesus, Erika(You should forgive the expression.) Projection, much?

I don't get it - it's not like I'm shy about watching the game

Usually it's me and 4 or 5 of my brand new friends watching the game, occasionally I'll get someone who can't quite make girl+football fan work out in their brains, so I get "What are you watching?" "Uhm. The game?" "Oh, sothisplaceisreallycoolhowlonghaveyoubeenhangingouthereareyoufromhere?"

Royo calls that moment his "street Oscar", but I'm sure that's not what Lisah meant.

hah! No, it sort of is!

No, Erika, I felt exactly the same way! I'd have died and gone to heaven right there if a guy had done that for me, and if he's a little sad, well, whatever, so am I. He bought me a HOUSE.

I thought that was a great story. AR is awesome as Bubbles.ETA: Zen, yeah, I wished he would have said "That would have been nice to know *before* you let me knock you up." But I would say that and Toby wouldn't. Because he is a hero, and heroes are different than the rest of us. It'd be weird, though. I'd have been the happy one. That has never happened, ever. In all of my 2.5 relationships.

I'm a chatty Yankee, although 27 years in Florida have had an impact. I was shocked, and not in a good way, when I first moved to Virginia and encountered attitudes in the South that I hadn't realized weren't fiction.

Got an update from my sister.

Dr. did xrays on Darcy and found that there was no pelvic fracture. Instead the damage was where the chest and back plates meet. They are very concerned that there is spinal cord injury. They are waiting until the anesthesia wears off to do some addtioinal tests this afternoon. They will call again around 3:00 with an update.

The next step would be a neurologist surgeon. They are consulting with him by phone now to get his thoughts.

Her condition is guarded. Not good at all for a full recovery.

Not giving up quite yet, but it is looking very poorly. I'll update you when I know more.

Eeep. Poor puppy. Mona (my sister) is beside herself, but doing better than when she was missing.