One of my oh-my-god-fucking-nasty! nightmares is rat swarms, and it prevents Ratatouille from being totally cute to me.

Man just reading that made my scalp crawl. I can never see that movie!

I totally read that as "Since I am cooking dope" and thought, "Scrapy! Step away from the cough medicine."

Oh thank, doG! Not just me.

They do. not. shut. up.

My friend T was telling me how her aunt and uncle are coming into Milwaukee for the week, and on Wednesday they're sending down their three teenaged kids on the train to Chicago to spend the holiday weekend with T. This is the first time the kids have been on a train by themselves, and both their parents and T are a bit worried how they'll behave. I told her that they'll probably just chatter a lot on the train, but they're too old to be running up and down the aisle (they're all in high school).

I'm sorry, Tom. Wish I could make it better, somehow.

You too, Dana.

I wonder how often that Israeli procedure ends up stopping people on the autism spectrum or with other disabilities that make them behave "oddly."

I don't know if things immediately jump to "stopping" -- I assumed it's more "let's talk to that person a little more and doublecheck their ID," or something else that 1) is still part of SOP and 2) isn't humiliating and invasive. Because the same thing would also happen to people acting oddly because they're afraid of flying, or they're tired, or whatever. That's fine.

Well, it's not "fine," but at least that's a more reasonable process. It's the equivalent of a good cop checking in with "Everything okay here?" when something looks odd. Profiling based on behavior will turn up plenty of false positives. As long as you & security both know that, I think it's okay; knowing there's some reason behind it makes a big difference, at least to me.

I've heard from more than one friend that they had to have an extensive interview when leaving Israel as a young American woman travelling alone, but not that they missed their flights or anything. But that's a profile they pay special attention, to, apparently. (Or did 5-10 years ago.)

I watch CM and Cold Case when the DH is out of town. I find the unraveling of a mystery is soothing somehow. Also, I find MGG verra verra cute.

i've heard from more than one friend that they had to have an extensive interview when leaving Israel as a young American woman travelling alone, but not that they missed their flights or anything. But that's a profile they pay special attention, to, apparently. (Or did 5-10 years ago.)

If they're looking for Rachel Corrie they already got her. Quite throughly.

Also, I find MGG verra verra cute.

He was smokin' in this week's ep, wasn't he? And his short hair is finally growing on me. Loved the contrast of him being the only one in business attire--even Hotch was wearing jeans (and very well, too).

I was that young American woman leaving Israel alone, in 1996. Interview, luggage hand-checked, etc. But, not patted down or stripped or photographed naked!