I just heard Beth is coming back from New Zealand this weekend. She's been helping her boyfriend with "field work". She's going to get in trouble for keeping all of us in the dark about her travel plans. Either she's always like this, or she's experiencing the alternate universe of relationships wherein everybody else except for one's significant other ceases to exist. I know that happened to me when I first started going out with Kelly. I didn't see or talk to Clint in over a month. I still really don't.