I think I have a face people feel they can talk to. I often am asked questions from strangers. Tonight, a young indian man wanted to know if catching the Half Moon Bay ferry would get him to Manukau Centre. I suggested a bus might be a better option, but it seems he was trying the ferry because the bus took 90 minutes and about 70 stops, he said, and he didn't want to do that again. I told him, the bus that meets the ferry goes to Botany Downs Shopping Centre, and that there might be connecting buses from there, so he was a bit happier about that. He kept chatting away - wondered why I was at the ferry so early - seems he had tried to catch the 5:45pm and missed it so was catching the 6:30pm. I told him about stopping off to buy something for dinner so I was a bit earlier than I usually was. He asked me if I'd eaten Indian food before and I told him I had and I liked it and I ... okay so retelling a not-so-interesting-incident in real time isn't very interesting for you. The whole point was.. I ended up feeling like I was responsible for this young man, two weeks off the boat from India. When my bus driver dropped me off at my house, as he always does - bless him - I wished the young man well and said it was nice meeting him. I hope the bus took him part way to where he needed to go - this part of the world is a bit bigger on foot than it appears on a map.

Bears hybernate over Winter. They snuggle down somewhere dark and safe - caves are good like that - then they fall asleep. They're very very grouchy if you wake them up before Spring, apparantly. So they sleep through their Winter and wake hungry but none the worse for wear. Scientists (at NASA I'm gonna assume) want to find out how a bear can manage this much inactivity without any loss of muscle tone etc. They'd like to know the secret so they can safely put astronauts to sleep on the long journey to Mars. Maybe they should cut out the middle man and save some money. If they just sent the Bears to Mars they wouldn't have to spend all that money on research. I heard something beary the other day : woman - "you're eating only one source of food and refusing to mate" guy - "what??" woman - "you're pandering"

klie: gajoob mish: yay you came back klie: it took me all that time to put on my armor and find a horse mish: *beaming* thank god i'm a virgin!!! klie: (i had to go buy tin foil and saddle my neighbor's dog)