There are a lot of things to like today. I like:

  • The way oreo cookie crumbs get stuck in my teeth after I eat a cookie so it feels like a secret chocolate treasure in my mouth for awhile afterwards. (Nope, I don’t get cavities. I attribute it to the Ph of my saliva. Neener neener.)
  • The billows of white steam from the heating system that go lumbering past the windows like polar bears.
  • The extra-long cord on my headphones. I can scoot my chair several feet away from the desk before I feel a tug. I don’t care if people say that headphones are full of bacteria, they are a good invention.
  • The interesting mix of light in the office. My office mate and I each have desk lamps that emit heavy yellow waves of light; there is some crisp, baldish winter light coming in through the windows; and glittery flourescents weaseling in from the hallway. Coolio. They battle it out.
  • My lip balm. Neutrogena Lip Nutrition. It’s a slick rose-red in the jar and I’m supposed to put it on with my finger but it’s too sticky so I just pooch my bottom lip out and dip it in. Then some lick smacking to get it on my top lip. Repeat five times a day.
  • My hair barrette, which is the only one I’ve ever found that is big enough for all of my hair at once.
  • Having a stack of five poetry books on the desk next to me. It makes me feel high-culture. And it’s nice to catch their titles out of the side of my eye as I work: “the life and the dark,” “the insistence of beauty” and so on.
  • Leonard Cohen. “Hallelujah.” Live.
  • Orange Spice tea.
  • Scissors. They make such an nice sound going through paper. Schhllliip!

What do you like?

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