Boogie Chillen
October 31, 2007

Annie insists that Richie answer her question: "Are you SICK?" She tells anyone who'll listen (and many who WON'T) that he's sick on a daily basis. Is that a rhetorical question?

It comes out that the medication is for someone in the final stages of leukemia. Does Richie LOOK like he's in the FINAL stages of anything short of a hair commercial? Of course, this being a soap, common symptoms don't usually apply.

I wish the current trend of LOTS of black eye makeup would pass (although I hesitate to imagine what it would be REPLACED with). Whenever I look at Greenlee or Ava I think they have "dirty eyes". It's just not attractive.

Ryan says that Richie is "claiming" to have leukemia. Excuse me? He's doing no such thing. Everyone else is ASSUMING that he's doing that when THEY are actually the ones making up the story. Yes, he started it (most likely deliberately) when he tossed the empty prescription bottle after conspicuously taking pills, but he did NOT tell anyone about it.

If anyone looks sick, it's Jonathan. Jeff Branson looks like he's lost some weight; between that and Jonathan's glum attitude, HE's the one who looks like he could use some Vitamin C.

I notice that they FINALLY got rid of the stacked toilet paper on the mantelpiece in the Lavery penthouse. I HATED that. Yes, I know it was a massive collection of candles, but I never once looked at it without thinking someone had made a run to Costco to stock up on TP and ran out of places to put all the extra rolls. Maybe the massive loads of crap they were constantly spewing finally caught up with them and they actually USED UP the ones on the mantelpiece.

TAN: We had a 5.6 earthquake here in San Jose, CA, last night. You can usually (but not always) feel anything over a 4.0, but that's usually more like "Did you feel that? Was that a truck rolling by?" It wasn't bad, but anything over a 5.0 is DEFINITELY an attention- getter! That'll give you some pretty good jolts. The thing about earthquakes is that they sucker-punch you from out of the blue. There's really no time to do anything other than try to get into a doorway or some other shelter that you hope won't fall on you. If you are close enough, you could go outside, but then you have worry about falling glass and electrical wires, so it's usually safer INSIDE if your in a place that's up to code. The scariest thing is that, until it actually stops, you don't know if it's going to get BIGGER and you don't know how LONG it will last. And when it's over, you don't know if there will be aftershocks that are just as big, so you're not sure how to proceed.

I live in an apartment. Rumbling from people going up the stairs or walking heavily in the apartment above mine is normal. TODAY, however, I have to admit that I'm a little jumpy whenever that happens

Robin "California may be shaky, but at least we don't have earthquake SEASONS" Coutellier