Frank, a good thing at times like this is to ask yourself, would you get all down on a friend or relative who had a minor mistake like that? I expect you'd be the first one to defend them, as long as they'd had as sterling a record as you did.

'Do unto others' cuts both ways.

Teppy! Happy, um, third-day-of-your-new-age!

Thank you!!!

I've seen Dirty Dancing enough for all of you. Nobody puts Baby in the corner!

When everybody was watching it, I was curious to know what everybody was watching. Nowadays, I mainly want to see it in order to fill in the gaps and know what the references are all about. And for my roommates to stop looking at me funny and say things like "you watch this thing with the monsters¹ and you've never seen this?"

Frank - I was just coming to write what Theo just wrote (and way better than I ever could. Also, the horrible skipper wonders about your job search).

¹ BtVS

You'll still be awesome and living in Chicago, though.

And I'll never have to hear the small town gossip about much weight I've put on unless my family decides to pass it on, I guess.

Right, well. I'll try to strangle this case of emo I've suddenly developed before I become unbearably mopy.

Mostly I'm upset that I let things like this, and my car getting stolen two years ago (or things as simple as moving - not necessarily negative things) can knock me for a loop for days at a time.

Yeah, you've got to break the cycle there. Sorry about the fender-bender, but it sounds like what you need is a strategy for putting it behind you.

I can't believe Allyson's books made it to Nilly before they made it to Allyson. That's not right. Unless they were printed in Turkey?

That must be it. The other copies are still on the boat crossing the Atlantic.

Aw Frank, I'm sorry. Please take it easy on yourself. If you'd had an 'on purpose', I'd think you could do with some beating up, but they're called 'accidents' for a reason.

Unless they were printed in Turkey?

Jilli got her copy, too. Clovis has secret importing ties with Turkey?

The "blind spots" thing reminded me of a game that I saw played in an online Israel movie site once: each person tried to name the movie that he thought everybody else had seen, but he hadn't. IIRC, somebody won with "Fight Club" (which I haven't seen, as well, speaking of blind spots). Oh, and there wasn't anybody who didn't see "The Princess Bride".

[Edited because even though there may be a movie called "The Princess Bribe" in which Inigo says "prepare to buy", I doubt its popularity around here.]

Also, the horrible skipper wonders about your job search

Um, you skipped something all right, because I'm not on a job search. I've been working where I've been working for 13 years, and no plans to be looking anytime soon.

Thanks for telling me what I should know already, everyone. Sometimes it's nice to hear these things outside of my own head (and from people I won't mock for saying them, unlike, say, myself).

Um, you skipped something all right, because I'm not on a job search

Sorry, I didn't phrase myself properly - I was trying to ask Theo.