I just got back from a stroll through the park near my home. This is a daily event for me. I often encounter strange and amazing things while I'm out (see my StoneStackers photo album for an example), but today was just strange.

I ran across a group of approximately 30 people, all wearing white shirts with either khaki's or jeans. They ranged in age from infant to elderly, with most of the people being between the ages of 19 - 40. My immediate thought - OMG, it's the HoO! There was even a young man in white shirt and khaki's that looked ever so much like Karl! They were all very giggly, and, get this, every now and then one of them would hum a little song! I kid you not!

Of course, my curiosity got the best of me, so I had to ask them what organization they were with, and why they were all wearing white shirts. The woman who answered me (brunette, and looking very much like Alex) appeared to be very uncomfortable with my question, and said "We're just family" and walked away to get into a black Ford expedition. Very, very strange!

Wish I'd had my camera with me, but then again maybe its best I didn't. I might not be around to tell the story!

O.O

So that was downright creepy. The girl seems obviously disturbed - and still no Charlie. I'm telling you, Charlie is a figment of Kates imagination. This is getting very CiW. Hope we don't end up in Second Life!

Here is a little snippet about Derrida from Wikipedia. Maybe this gives us a hint of the direction we will be traveling with Kate?

"Derrida began speaking and writing publicly at a time when the French intellectual scene was experiencing an increasing rift between what could broadly speaking be called "phenomenological" and "structural" approaches to understanding individual and collective life. For those with a more phenomenological bent, the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. For the structuralists, this was precisely the false problem, and the "depth" of experience could in fact only be an effect of structures which are not themselves experiential. It is in this context that in 1959 Derrida asks the question: must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something?[2]

In other words, every structural or "synchronic" phenomenon has a history, and the structure cannot be understood without understanding its genesis.[3] At the same time, in order that there be movement, or potential, the origin cannot be some pure unity or simplicity, but must already be articulated—complex—such that from it a "diachronic" process can emerge. This originary complexity must not be understood as an original positing, but more like a default of origin, which Derrida refers to as iterability, inscription, or textuality.[4] It is this thought of originary complexity, rather than original purity, which destabilises the thought of both genesis and structure, that sets Derrida's work in motion, and from which derive all of its terms, including deconstruction.

Derrida's method consisted in demonstrating all the forms and varieties of this originary complexity, and their multiple consequences in many fields. His way of achieving this was by conducting thorough, careful, sensitive, and yet transformational readings of philosophical and literary texts, with an ear to what in those texts runs counter to their apparent systematicity (structural unity) or intended sense (authorial genesis). By demonstrating the aporias and ellipses of thought, Derrida hoped to show the infinitely subtle ways that this originary complexity, which by definition cannot ever be completely known, works its structuring and destructuring effects."

Don't have time to analyze this now, but I found it interesting, so I thought I'd post it.

Or is she another Cassie? There are similarities -

She is purportedly Kates best friend.
Kate talks about her, but we never see her.
She seems to be a bit wild and undisciplined. (Cassie, if you remember made prank phone calls and got Bree into trouble.)
She is creeped out by Kate not being Kate. (Cassie was creeped out by Bree's religion)

Guess we won't know for sure until she actually shows up. (Yes, I know they cast an actress for the part - but maybe that's a red herring?)