I do a fair amount of waving at the ones comin' the other direction and sometimes I feel like a veritable celebrity (beginning of the year a guy I didn't recognize who I guess reads my blog calls out "Congratulations on the ten thousand!"). Once I was having fun sprinting from one point to the other and I missed every possible light and the same fellow caught up to me four times and on the second time we chatted about our routes, the lights, etc.

However, I am not sure whether I'd want to have to use social skills that much in the a.m. I've often pondered how much I *love* the "quick recognition" and how it feeds my psyche and adds to my bliss... and wondered if it would be the same if I had to have actual *conversations* (Um, that tendency may have something to do with me being single, too )