: hanging around Cambridge, working at a museum, and reading in coffee shops.

Getting to the front at concerts.
Drinking non-rum cocktails.
sleeping on planes.
laughing.

are:
my outstanding collection of Sharpie (TM) markers, the fact that I am just not that tall, and my ability to have at least three songs stuck in my head at any given time.

music: Big Star, TEED, Warpaint, Bright Eyes, James Blake, Washed Out, YACHT, Jane's Addiction, The Cure, Tune-Yards, Brodinski and Gesaffelstein, Beethoven, et al.

books: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Ness), Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), It Happened in Boston (Greenan), Invisible Cities (Calvino). I'm currently reading The Golem and the Jinni (Wecker) and just finished Life After Life (Atkinson).

movies: The Goonies, Back to the Future, The Motorcycle Diaries, A Separation, Sky High (don't judge...)

Walt Whitman
iTunes and wireless speakers
Travel
a GPS
A fifth thing
Crosswords

Where I lost my climbing gear. Why more European DJs don't come to Boston. How much vinyl is too much vinyl when your record player is broken. What to do with these myriad books now that I am obsessed with my Kindle (TM).

deciding whether it's a glasses or contacts night.

When I was five I stole candy lipstick from the grocery store. I stuck it into my animal crackers and then claimed it was a prize that came in the box.

I didn't get caught in the store, but my sister was angry that her animal crackers contained no prize and I think my mother had an inkling.

You own a large collection of irreverent Tshirts. You're willing to walk across the Mass Ave bridge on a sunny day. You subscribe to the New Yorker but sometimes, guiltily, just read the cartoons.