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26 October 2006
Things I am in favor of:→[More:]
* Sleep
* Same-sex marriage
* Battlestar Galactica, Lost, and the Venture Brothers
* The nooner
* Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Crunch
* Really loud music
* Autumn
* Gmail
* Cats
* Love
* Metachat
* Finding out it wasn't my awful upstairs neighbors blasting music at 1am yesterday, but my nice upstairs neighbor, which turned a confrontation into a friendly interaction that allowed me to get back to sleep fairly easily.
* When my usually very reserved tweed-wearing professor makes goofy jokes, in such a way as to indicate he knows he's being goofy, so much of the success of the joke lies in his making fun of himself
* naps
* gin and tonic, splash of tonic
* Buffy marathons
* hokey pokey and jellytip ice cream (oh to be in NZ)
* beer in all its forms
* sunshine
* scarves
* bubble baths
* thanksgiving
*firemen
*Babylon 5
*sleepy guys
*frottage
*chicken salad and deviled eggs
*same-sex kissing in videogames
*same-sex kissing in real life
*kissing
*Final Fantasy
*rainy days
*butterflies
*cold snaps
*Blue Bell ice cream, any flavor
*Schlotzsky's sammiches
*xtube.com (nsfw, if you didn't know)
*Desolation Jones
*Ambush Bug
*Ultimate Wolverine
* Just finding out that our university's janitors are the best-paid in the Bay area -- I love that the Jesuits do (at least these days) seem to not only talk the talk but also walk the walk.
jonmc, I'm just getting ready to go to Nielsen's deli ... oh, waitaminute ...
*deli
... to get a quart of chicken salad and a dozen deviled eggs for lunch for me, my mom, and a friend. Their deviled eggs ROCK! I think it's their home-made mayonnaise or something. Plus, I think they use like 45 times as much "devil" as they do per one-half "egg".
*White pizza with pesto and black olives
*Backrubs
*Thinking
*Independent spirits
*Small-time, mom-and-pop businesses
*Skills
*Growing your own fresh herbs
*Public libraries
*Newspapers printed on paper
*Freebies
*Morrissey
*Critical thinking
*Urban renewal
*Transit oriented development
*Bunnies
*Posts about bunnies
*Free Trade
*Gay Marriage
*Green Building (but only if it's profitable)
*Stupid internet ephemera
*freshly flossed teeth
*tv caves with no phone
*the gov't stepping out of marriage completely, gay or otherwise
*silver colored matte stuff
*rubber
*diverging
*fish cartoons
Good food
Good company
Good coffee
Good booze
Looking after my young niece
Music
Films
Evangeline Lilly
Warmth
iPod
Mac
Teh interwebs
The majority of memes
Sleep
*purring lap cats
*autumn
*clean sheets
*long, hot showers
*having a big breakfast at the counter of a diner, alone, with the newspaper
*daydreaming
*dirt under fingernails
*cooking something because YOU really want to eat it
*unexpected things in the mail (both sending and receiving)
*newish relationship with brother
*blue cheese
*hiking
*hiking with someone who likes to stop and look at stuff on the ground, or tree bark, or similar shit, and doesn't get impatient about such things
*spending a whole day reading interesting stuff and not worrying about getting anything done
*rainy Sundays on the couch, watching football
*companionable silence
*easy, developing friendships
- New England in the fall
- Heavy Maine accents
- Smuttynose Beer
- Seadog Blueberry Ale
- LL Bean clothes
- having a library that doesn't have electronic anything, not even library cards
- Gas Light pizza
- Rwandan coffee from Breaking New Grounds
- getting to hear the new My Morning Jacket live album by request because I could just walk into the station and ask the DJ to do it
- having Miko 24/7 to come home to/cook with/talk to/kiss goodbye in the morning as I head off to work
*rollercoasters (and anything on tracks)
*willow trees
*singing along with the stereo while driving
*beer
*campfires
*biographies
*tacky 1960s/70s buildings
*high places
*empty places
*old photos
*old people
*pizza
*weird foreign films
* nice girlfriends
* nice boyfriends
* Mr. Gatti's pizza
* good drugs
* bicycling in the fall
* drive-in theaters
* Paul Veerhoven
* Leonard Cohen
* 100% agave tequila
* Mexican beer
* Mexican food for breakfast
* Mexicans
* looking forward to things and having them come out better than expected
*Love
*Autumn leaves and colors
*Long, slow, kisses
*Cemetery strolls
*Marriage between two loving people, sexual orientation unimportant
*Sleeping in
*Joking with the kids
*MeCha
*Ice Cream
*knitting
*having fun at work
*anything antique
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