The 8 annoying people you find in a Starbucks.

It was funny to me!

Phew! For a second I thought I was losing my touch.

Most excellent, Allyson!

Mmm, pizza. I can get tired of it quickly, though. When my sister and I were in grade school (no cafeteria), my father would bring down any leftover slices and we'd take them for lunch. Two solid weeks of pizza is too much.

We sell both kinds of pizza--thin and thick crust. The thin is Neapolitan style, with a crispy crust, though most people don't like it as well done as it should be. We sell the larger, multi-person sizes like New York style pizza. I prefer the thin crispy crust. My favorite is Quattro Stagione (Four Seasons): artichokes, ham, mushrooms and olives, with each having its own quarter of the pizza. A very close second is Pizza Diavola with hot peppers and spicy salsicce or sopressata, with anchovies. For the most part, we predominately sell your typical toppings, but if you want a more Italian-style pizza my dad is happy to make it for you.

We've also got the Sicilian pizza. Double-thick crust (it takes 2 large doughs to make one Sicilian pizza), and we bake it twice. The first time is only 'til it's about half-cooked, to allow a thin layer of sauce to bake right into the top of the dough. The second time is to personalize it with the ordered toppings and additional sauce. The crust is too chewy for me, but we sell a lot of them.

Oooh, and white pizza! I love ours with broccoli, tomatoes and garlic. Burrell, we also do a stuffed pizza with ham, salami, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.

Now I'm hungry for my father's pizza, which is currently 2 hours away from me. I was just up there this weekend; why couldn't this discussion have occurred on Saturday?

Burrell, I hadn't thought about them that way. I have to admit, I don't see a lack of behavioural command to your first example, but that might be because life looks like a computer program to me.

Eh, perhaps (I do think neuroses can have that component I just don't think it's definitional with neuroses), I was trying to avoid the more typical neurotic posts, like the one about being grossed out by the thought of people brushing their teeth. Had I gone with that one, can you see what I mean?

Also I lack the training to make a really proper distinction, all my study in psych has been reading psychoanalysis for lit crit, and that's probably biased me towards thinking of neuroses in terms of narrative.

Moooooom! Maria's taunting!!

I had Round Table Pizza last night. But now I want Maria's dad's pizza.

WOW! Now I am beyond hungry. Must go get food.

For your consideration - possibly the most awesome chair in the universe: Surf Chair

And here I was thinking it was going to be a chair on a couple of surf boards.

Oh dear. It appears that I should have called my mother last night, which I had intended to do but forgot until it was too late. I got an "I HOPE YOU'RE NOT DEAD" e-mail.

I want Maria's dad's pizza too!

shrift - did you reply that you were emailing her from Beyond?