cycling; if you can do it outdoors, I'm in! And Texas Hold 'Em!
Intelligent, outdoorsy folks
Tori Amos, Rascal Flatts, Jump, Indigo Girls, Ray Lamontagne, Tegan and Sara, Rachel Yamagata, Sarah McLachlan, whatever's playing on WNCW, Elton John, Better Than Ezra, Billy Pilgrim, Jackopierce, 80s power ballads :-)
Steel Magnolias, Notting Hill, Poseidon Adventure, Dead Poets Society, Boys on the Side, Love Actually, Contact
Grey's Anatomy; Brother's and Sisters; Survivor; Lost; The Today Show; CBS Sunday Morning; Nature Scene (love me some Rudy Mancke!); and for three weeks in July, Tour de France coverage!
Talk Before Sleep, Anne Rivers Siddons books, Southern women's lit, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, other Elizabeth Berg novels, Pat Conroy novels (especially The Lords of Discipline)
friends and family who show incredible strength in the face of adversity; the Challenger astronauts; Rudy Mancke; MLK, Jr.; my students who bust their butt to do this college thing; Andre Kadima; anyone who stands up for what's right!