I am reminded of what's important

Today I indulged myself in a little downward spiral of sorts. First I got the Vanity Fair with the Suri Cruise spread, so naturally I spent a while on the couch with that. When I didn't know what to do next, I took a bath and after that I couldn't quite figure out any reason to get dressed because I just didn't do a very good job of getting down to business today. So I sat down, in my towel, in front of the computer and proceeded to chat online with several friends as well as browse MySpace and write emails for a good while - well over an hour - well over the time I normally allow myself to do that. I wrote my friend Carissa an email, explaining what I'd been up to, that I hadn't been very productive today at all, and that I better stop and she wrote me back: "I think you are being totally productive because you are nurturing many friendships at once which is more important in life than anything else. Without friends, whats the point??"

Four things

I got this forward in my inbox this morning, where you're supposed to fill in the answers and send it back to the original senders and all. And BOTH people who filled it out, put, under "four people who will respond," my name. What do they think I'm doing? Sitting around doing nothing with my life? Jesus. Four Things about Me (that you may not have known...)

Four jobs I have had in my life 1. Rock star (third grade) 2. Assistant to the Dean of Engineering, Boston University 3. Answering phones at a radio station 4. World renowned writer

Four Movies I have watched over and over 1. Keeping the Faith 2. Amadeus 3. Lost in Translation 4. The Edge

Four places I have lived 1. Alexandria, VA 2. Boston, MA 3. Raleigh, NC 4. Chapel Thrill

Four TV shows I love to watch 1. The Office 2. Golden Girls (Apparently, I'm not the only one - and here. And here. And this, which is totally insane.) 3. What Not to Wear 4. Most Haunted

Four of my favorite foods When we were looking at the baby book my mother made for me on my 21st birthday, we got a lot of laughs over this little essay I wrote when I was maybe four-years-old (ok, so the teacher probably wrote while I dictated to her) where I said that my favorite food was "asparagus, asparagus, asparagus and corn!" So that's my answer, albeit, an untrue answer.

Four of my favorite desserts 1. Pie, blueberry 2. Ice cream 3. Peanut butter and chocolate - together - in anything 4. Creme brulee

Four places I would rather be right now 1. My own office 2. Italy 3. Maine 4. With J, watching movies

Four people who will respond Not four, everybody, in the comments, and in their own blogs

Four People least likely to respond See above, nobody

Four of my favorite types of music 1. Well, I'm sitting here in my new favorite coffee shop, and I just looked up out the window, after concentrating, I'll admit, way too hard on this survey, and I noticed it's raining ever so slightly, and just as I noticed it, the beautiful people working here put on an Iron and Wine album, and that was a really nice moment. 2. Buffalino, live at McSeagull's 3. #41, a CD compilation made by my roommates and I in 2002 that played in heavy rotation at our place 'til 2003 and no, we didn't get sick of it 4. "Feels so Good," Chuck Mangione