Things to be happy about
by Caroline• beautiful food
• hot tubs
• extra-long inseams
• down comforters
• the color red
• high heels
• good writing
• the things we say when we’re half asleep
• impromptu dance parties
• old friends
• underlining passages
• noticing things
• this pat benatar song i can’t stop listening to
• emile hirsch
• the elements of editing by arthur plotnik
• diet cherry coke
• my particular brand of madness
• guacamole
• the american beauty score by thomas newman
• how my copy of jurassic park is like the town bicycle these days
• pinstripes
• swearing at belcon meetings
• saltines
• everything is illuminated
• max bielenberg’s handwriting
• a white sport coat and a pink crustacean
• afghans and quilts
• scraps of paper with notes on them
• playing scrabble in the smoking lounge
• ink drawing
• bottlecaps from foreign lands!
• MY SHIRT (as printed by misters f-k and fisher)
• “that lady’s got cigarettes!”
• getting over a cold
• ten more round tables
• steve wright (DUH)
• bass clarinet
• emily miller’s “quirkiness”
• the shawshank redemption
• argyle socks
• those conversations wherein you hear a series of brief, illuminative stories about people whom you do not yet know very well
• gallopy drums
• old postcards and their origins
• this new trend of two beds in one
• living in chicago with nathan after graduation!
• my great grandmother’s homemade christmas ornaments
• how this one time, my mom answered a trivial pursuit question by giving the last line of a men at work song
• really good mountain dew from a soda fountain
• the way eight degrees feels so much warmer than -11
• half-remembered dreams that don’t make any sense
• diet cherry vanilla coke
• patsy cline
• townhouse jay
• surreal nights with funny people
• herb alpert and the tijuana brass
• pool at the chaus
• the idea that potential employers may place any weight on the content of this profile
• frosting fights
• scott’s potstickers!
• acoustic versions
• black pepper
• hating on belcon
• TULLYCRAFT
• goldfish (i speak of the snack food, but the real ones, too, especially the ones with that bubbleheaded business)
• loud patterns
• panda express
• how in my new driver’s license picture, it looks like i am dreamily in love with something just to the side of the camera
• acrylic paint
• round buildings, specifically my cylindrical dreamhouse
• costume jewelry
• large crowds dancing in unison
• www.tvlinks.co.uk, specifically ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK
• charming old books
• fresh haircuts
• ground cumin
• the word “dyspepsia”