Kate seems so quiet when you meet her. Or maybe it's that she's so beautiful that you just focus on her and don't see or hear anything else, so unless she's talking to you, which why should she be when you just met and you're staring at her like a drooling baboon?

Kate is beautiful inside too. This can cause problems. Like the time she asked the baristo in New York (where she's from but rarely visits) if he had soy milk for her coffee. Since he was staring at her like a drooling baboon, he naturally offered up the one word in English he knew -- Yes -- even though your chances of finding pirate's booty in an unlocked treasure chest on Wall Street are somewhat higher than them having soy milk at the South Street Seaport on a weekend morning. But rather than whack him over the head with an English Is Your Second Language You Drooling Baboon primer, she just smiled sweetly and had milk in her coffee.

Which is just as well, since Kate likes cheese. Also linguistics, and she may be the only person in the world who ever tried to wed the two into a special interest group.

Oh, by the way, did I mention she's built like a Playboy centerfold and she's fun to hang out with?