ARRRgyle socks. Serving underserved populations. Protein folding and misfolding/aggregation (über nerd that I am). Beer. Playing bocce ball. Reading. A lot. Collecting vintage coats and t-shirts. Listening to NPR. BYOBs. Eating bing cherries. Urban hiking. LGBT studies and legalizing gay marriage. Other forms of social justice. Hairy guys with glasses (hey, I like what I like). Cooking vegetarian food, and mussels white (because mine kicks Monks' ass, yo). Tutoring awesome kids from Philly. Camping. Dancing (poorly, but enthusiastically). Crisp winter air. Supplying Philly's IV drug users with clean needles. Bowling. Tall, frosty glasses of...milk. Rockin' the MCATs. And applying to medical school.
Tasteful folks.
Classical, big band, jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk, old school country, classic rock, brit rock, punk rock...
The Goonies, Tampopo, The Road to Wellville, Paper Moon, The Jerk, Anything Else, High Fidelity, The Princess Bride, Life of Brian, The Shawshank Redemption, The Very Long Engagement, Alice in Wonderland, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clerks, Eat Drink Man Woman, Parenthood, Benny and Joon, Reality Bites, Cry Baby, When Harry Met Sally, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Swing Kids, Mermaids, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Breakfast Club, and My Dinner with Andre.
None.
Authors who make me happy: Calvin Trillin, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Savage, Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Tobias Wolff, Atul Gawande, Kurt Vonnegut, Harold Bloom, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Antonio Damasio, Paul Farmer, Paul Krugman, Walt Whitman, Lewis Lapham, Allen Ginsberg, Vivian Gornick, Perri Klass and Roald Dahl.
Primary care physicians, you make the rockin' world go 'round.