I'm quite / almost / sometimes / very fond of:
a) reading over your shoulder
b) devices intended to break or bring malfunction (temporarily) to other devices
c) successfully saying "No bag please" before the cashier hands me a paper bag stuffed with a hundred napkins and sugar packets with my morning coffee
d) people who transition abruptly from being shy to boisterous
d) my new Brazilian tourist visa
e) catching myself craving something I just saw an advertisement for
f) magnolia blossoms
g) break up notes found in used textbooks
h) postcards
i) people who talk and listen with their hands
j) discovering old friends living in places that I'm headed to
k) Athens, GA
l) lasercutting without catching things on fire
m) riding my trusty bike with broken spokes
n) returning library books overdue
o) bookmarking hundreds of weblinks that I'll never get back to reading
p) forgetting where I left that thing that I left in that unforgettable spot
q) standup comics who excel at being awkward
r) the fact that r comes after q
s) convincing myself that I will indeed pay back my student loans someday
t) kitschy religious plastic stuff from flea markets that glows
u) clear plastic push pins ( no, red, yellow, and blue just won't do )
v) my nephew Naaman's perspective on the world
w) design noir
x) parsing strings and recombining words in weird ways (and yes, being a geek)
y) being an amateur at everything
z) building shit
