The Middle-Aged & Clueless

Just prior to working in my current office, I worked for two female bosses that were completely opposite.  My previous office, had around 60 ppl, and was extremely cliquey.  One of my bosses there would not even bother to make eye contact with me if I said, "Good Morning".  The other was your classic back-stabber, earning your trust and then turning right around and betraying your confidence the mere moment she was given the opportunity.  It was like a breath of fresh air, when I began working in my current office, all of 2 years ago.  I remember thinking how nice it was that my boss treated me as a human being.  Sure, she seemed to talk excessively about her personal life, but I still gave her the benefit of the doubt.  I had only been working there a few weeks, when a fellow co-worker asked me if I had yet to notice how our boss could manage to make ANY topic about her.   I tested this theory by purposely chatting with my boss about the most random of topics, and sure enough, somehow we'd end up discussing her.  What really cracks me up is how totally oblivious she is in her one-sided conversations.  One would think that if all you were getting for feedback was the standard, "Yep." "Uh-huh." "Really?" that maybe the person isn't all that engaged.  I have also tried countless times to display as many non-interested non-verbal cues as possible, but nothing stops this woman from telling me things that I never wanted to know!!!!  Apparently surviving TMI has become such a popular issue that even the folks on EHow have created a how-to to handle it properly.