1) Jeff Buckley is waaaay more popular than I knew. I mean, if Kelly Clarkson is listening to him, then I have to assume everyone is. Don’t get me wrong, I have her album on my ipod (or at least I used to…before the crash) but man, she’s definitely mainstream. Oh god. I’m mainstream. Damn it.

2) Even knowing that there are apparently health benefits to being a giving person does not make me want to mend my ways.

3) NPR has a booktour podcast. Uh, awesome? Yes. Because, like my distaste for live music, I hate the thought of crowding in somewhere to watch or listen to someone whose output I like but who I care very little about as a person. But a podcast? On my own time? Excellent.

4) Midomi.com. You sing any part of any song and it lets you know what song it is. You know, when you get that stupid tiny piece stuck in your hear and you can’t place it? Man, what will people think of next.

5) Cate Blanchett reprises her role as Queen Elizabeth, in Elizabeth, for The Golden Age. A sequal, with the same director, and I am pumped. You know how I love those epic historical pieces. I can’t help it.

6) How women flirt is universal. “Women smiled, gazed, swayed, giggled, licked their lips, and aided and abetted by the wearing of high heels; they swayed their backs, forcing their buttocks to tilt out and up and their chests to thrust forward.” Sounds fucking hot to me. How could men possibly resist? Also, where does witty banter come in? Because man, that’s all I’ve got! (Now, in the author’s defense, she teases about this line too.)

7) Michael Cunningham is a douchebag. Quote: “When you see someone getting into or out of a large SUV, ask them firmly but politely why they think they need a vehicle just slightly smaller than a Sherman tank.” Now, I’m all for saving the gosh darned planet, but this holier than thou attitude is starting to piss me off. Last time I checked, calling people out on their decisions, when they don’t say, breach any real standards of human decency, in public is straight out rude. We do not get to judge each other. DO NOT. The best way to lead is by example and I’m pretty sure we need to worry about ourselves before we worry about other people. I’m also pretty sure we need to worry about say, CORPORATE large scale companies that damage the environment before the suburban mom who needs to get her four kids to soccer practice and then piano and then McDonald’s for a happy meal. Man, she is going to hell. Her kids are probably fat, too. And I mean, if you must, MUST, say something, at least let’s try to make it constructive rather than critical. Because seriously, if a stranger asked me why I was throwing my can into the garbage rather than the recycling, I would lose it. Mind your own damned business.

8) I even love pictures of pies.

9) I apparently need to do more “speed” work in my work outs. The whole “wow, that was really hard!” means that my body likes it. And, it means my metabolism will stay elevated for longer. Now, I should approach working out the same way that I approached (past tense! ha!) school. Work smart, not hard. And if twenty minutes of interval workouts is more effective than forty minutes of medium…well, I’m willing to give it a try. Or at least spice up my workout with them.