Overheard...

Me: "(long, rambling story about what I was thinking about that began with what I'll say in my interview next week and how when Shasta tries to chew on Gemini's head these days, it seems perfunctory, more out of habit than pleasure...)

....SO, what were you thinking about?"

Jim: "uh.................... screensaver?"

Overheard...

S: "I'm going to miss our deck. I like how it surrounds the house. It feels like we're floating in the canopy of the trees."

J: "A second-story bedroom will do that too."

Overheard...

at the Frederick County Fair, in line for the Ferris Wheel (two boys, maybe 10 and 8):

Boy 1: "Why isn't the attendant letting people on all the empty seats? Look, he missed another one!"

Boy 2: "It's because the empty seats are the ones that people fell from and died and then when they died they turned into zombies and the zombies are going to come back and eat us all."

pause...

Boy 2: "...I'm a worst case scenario kind of guy."