Observations continued

(can you say late night introspection much?)

I forgot to mention yesterday, while listing the shows I currently watch, that I'm kind of into the Big Bang Theory too--Monday nights on CBS. It's not great, and the acting leaves a bit to be desired, but the over-the-top caricatures are fun to watch.

There's this new business that just opened near my sons' school, and I realized today that I'm already watching for the FOR RENT sign in the window, almost as though the building itself would put it there. Maybe Fayetteville NEEDS another hemp & tie-dye store, in order to keep up its "funky" quota and all, but I seriously doubt it.

I've noticed that I feel like everyone looks familiar to me lately--people I've never had the occasion to meet before. It's as though I've lived long enough that I've seen the finite number of faces there are in the world, and now they are being recycled. Maybe it's that I've figured out just how small and connected this world really is, and I see a common humanity in all of us. Or maybe I just need to get some sleep.

Conversely though, I wonder if people I haven't seen in a while recognize me and am sometimes surprised when they do. But then I realize that, apart from accessorizing with burp cloths these days, I really haven't changed much since junior high. At all. If you didn't know me then, you should just see the pictures.

Speaking of needing sleep, I giggled 'til I cried during several scenes while catching up on Scrubs on the TiVo last night. My favorite? Elliot, who is missing her boyfriend because he's out of town, waxes nostalgic about the chair Dr. Kelso (a man in his late 60s) is sitting in because that's where J.D. sat during their third date together. Kelso responds, dripping with deadpan sarcasm, "How romantic. I'll try to stop drilling farts into it."

I'm all about the high-brow comedy.

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