My Favorite Things

So, after my long (long, long, long) post last night, I feel the need to make a shorter one. With pictures. I also feel the need to write another list. So, here, by no means complete, a list of:

My Favorite Things

1) Chocolate Chip Cookies

As you may have surmised from the picture at the top of the page, I am a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies. I eat a lot of them. I especially enjoy the kind that are just barely cooked, and sort of ooze around my fingers as I try not to get melted chocolate all over my hands.

2) Electric Blankets

This one is especially true right now, in the dead of February, when the draft from my windows is actually strong enough to ruffle papers. There's nothing so nice as crawling into an already warm bed.

3) Romance Novels

I know. Lame. But there's something comforting in starting a book knowing exactly how it's going to end, and having a pretty good idea of how it's going to get there.

4) Salty Foods

(This is going to be a food-heavy entry.) Salt and vinegar chips, dill pickles, french fries covered in vinegar, capers. I've even been know to take tiny tiny sips of soy sauce. To make up for this excess of salt in my diet, I try never to put table salt on my food. We'll see if it all evens out in a couple of decades.

5) Garlic

I just can't resist it. It's so delicious. I think all dining hall food could be improved by its addition.

6) Cats

I love cats. It's just a fact of life. This, combined with my love of romance novels and garlic, has frequently led me to imagine my future as a crazy cat lady in a house filled to the rafters with paperbacks with titles like, "The Darkest Pleasure," and cats with names like Mr. Frumpertins and Jabba the Cat.

7) The Internet

I actually don't know how I would fill my time without it. Seriously. It went out for a few hours one day, and I did not cope well. At all.