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It's really amazing that I never go into Bones. I majored in Anthropology in college and one of my favorite classes in college was the bones class, where our exams consisted of several bone fragments placed around the room, which we had to identify. To throw us off, our teacher would always throw in some Homo habilis or Australopithecus afarensis remains just to keep us sharp.

I recently started watching Bones, and I can't believe I was holding out so long. Now, for those of you who are fans of CSI: Everything , it probably doesn't break any ground. In fact, the way it is set up, it finds a way to copy CSI, Cold Case, and Criminal Minds all at once. The more I watch it, the more I am starting to crush on Temprance Brennan. She's a genius, and goes about her work without caring if people like her or her social skills. And if anybody has a problem with her, she can most likely kick their ass. I wish I could say I was only interested in her brain, but Emily Deschanel is a great part of the appeal. I'm not sure what makes her so attractive to me, but it's probably the voice.

Emily is not the only hottie on the show. Michaela Conlin has a bit of a Fraggle-ish face, but her character has a lot of spunk, and she made it out of Allentown, so she gets my vote. I also have a really serious jones for Tamara Taylor, who plays Camille Saroyan, perhaps more than Ms. Deschanel, but since Tamara's married and it's Emily's show Temprance gets the headline.

I've spoken several times about my Man Crushes, but I haven't dedicated any space to talk about the women that make me swoon. It's no secret that I love Tyra Banks but she is not the only person who makes me go ga-ga. In general, I don't think I have a "type", but if I had to choose, I would go with brunette over blonde, butt over boobs, and brains over most anything else. Extra points if they have an independent streak or are mildly crazy.

I was watching Law and Order (the original) last night, and I have come to realize that I have a big crush an Alana De La Garza who plays A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa. Brunette? Check. Butt? She's part Hispanic, so check. Brains? Well, she plays a lawyer on TV, and that is good enough for me. The Assistant District Attorneys on Law and Order have provided me a lot of crush material. Jill Hennessy as Claire Kincaid. Yes. Carey Lowell as Jamie Ross? Yes (who says no to a Bond Girl?). Angie Harmon as Abbie Carmichael. Oh hell yes (you know she loves the NY Giants)! Elisabeth Rohm as Serena Southerlyn? She was blonde, but when it came to fighting back against her bosses, she was top notch. Annie Parisse as Alexandra Borgia? She was taken from us too soon, and for sure.

On last night's episode, Connie is assigned to be the legal aid attorney for a suspected double murderer. Although she signed up for her job to put people like him behind bars, she does her best as his attorney, and completely destroyed her boss in the courtroom and made Detective Anthony Anderson look like a fool. Connie has been with us for a couple of seasons now, and with the way the A.D.A.s move through this show, she might not be around very long, so enjoy her while you can.

I think one of life's greatest pleasures is listening to conversations you aren't necessarily supposed to hear. It's always great for a little bit of amusement. I'm not talking about planting bugs in somebody's bedroom. Rather, I am talking about those people who love to have conversations in public and don't care what people think or who might hear them.

Public cell phone conversations are really funny.. A lot of people think that with only one half of the conversation public, nobody will be smart enough to catch on to what is really going on. Those people are wrong, and while they are annoying, they can be funny as well. There are a few times when I have been on the humorous end of a public cell-phone conversation. For example, I was returning a phone call to a friend of mine while at the supermarket after she said "Hello", I said "Hey baby!". A woman who was picking out some apples in the produce department turned around, thinking I was talking to her (she was cute, but married, and I am no home wrekcer). The look on her face said she wanted to smack me like I had just pinched her ass, but when she saw that I was on the phone, her look turned to one that was slightly perturbed, as if she was upset her husband doesn't answer the phone like I did.

However, the best conversations in public happen at a restaurant. I've mentioned Genghis Cohen, my favorite Chinese place in LA before, and the combination of their layout and the eclectic clientele always make for some good eavesdropping.

Case 1: There were two older couples eating at a table about halfway across the restaurant. I couldn't really hear their conversation, but you could hear the laughter at the table. I am not sure what was so funny, or if there was just a few more extra martinis at the table, but one person in particular was really enjoying themselves. the laugh sort of wound up from a chuckle into an all-out wail. The people at my table started laughing immediately, and every single time it happened, we would laugh a little louder. Then we started noticing other tables were all laughing at these other people laughing, and it got a little crazy. Eventually, the original offenders got their garlic chicken, and things calmed down, but it was funny.

Case 2: Sometimes, there are things that you just don't want to hear about at dinner. One of those would be a person describing in detail their escapades with prostitutes in Asia. On a different day at Genghis Cohen, that is exactly what happened. Somebody was telling his friends about his time taking advantage of the rampant poverty in some southeast Asian nation where he had a hooker or two. After getting the gist of the story, I didn't really want to hear anymore, but I did here the guy talk about the nickname one of the girls gave him - Mikey Strong Cock. Yes, Mikey Strong Cock. Hearing that was bad enough, but this guy also imitated the accent his concubine had, and that made it even worse. I couldn't have been the only person who heard him, and I wonder how many people he tells that story to thinking that it will make him look impressive.