I have always been fascinated by other people's views of interaction patterns, of the cliques and groups and connections that I also know first-hand. Maybe mostly because I'm not all that hot at picking up on that stuff myself -- social subtlety is definitely not a strong point of mine. It's sort of a strange meta-gossip type of topic to talk about, though, which only makes it more interesting to me when it happens. (But I'm not quite certain whether or not to feel really guilty about this or not.)