10 Things People Discuss That Drive Me to Distraction

1. Shopping
2. Dieting
3. Aging
4. Personal Spiritual Journeys
5. Any personal journey that doesn't actually involve a geographical change in position
6. Sports
7. The Amazing thing that their (below the age of three) child said or did
8. Their illness (if not life-threatening or oddly funny)
9. American Idol
10. Their Collection

10 Things that Interest Me

1. Economics
2. Prisons and Criminals
3. Autistic and differently minded people
4. Movies
5. Cultural perceptions of women and how they behave
6. Cultural perceptions of men and how they behave
7. Outer space
8. Scientists
9. Religious beliefs
10. Scientology