-freshly filed and buffed nails: they shine and are pretty, but the edges are sharp and will break your skin if not negotiating a bare shoulder scratch gingerly

-sunday nights: the weekend's naps may convince you that you can go to sleep after one-thirty am and wake up morning at six, but sunday night, she tells dirty dirty lies and will leave you on your knees in the shower, hanging onto the edges of the clawfoot tub so that you don't curl up in a ball to sleep under the slowly-turning-cold-because-your-landlord's-a-bitch water.

-making mixes for people you don't know in day-to-day life: if you don't see them face to face, it's so much easier to flake on actually giving up such goodness.

but i won't, i promise.

-Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers (tm): you know why.

-this: convinces you that doing freaky things to yourself is entirely normal. or, at the very least, common.

-gingerbread man cookies: i'm a jew, i shouldn't like these as much as i do.

-230: nap time. without a doubt.