Quite Well Indeed

List #1: Things I Can't Tolerate:

1. Danny and Melinda
2. Incompetent Adults
3. Apathetic People
4. How the WB Won't Put out Everwood Season 2 on DVD
5. Couples Who Put on the "We're a Couple Show"

List #2: Things That I Have True Love For:

1. Nick Hornby (please write a new book soon)
2. Having a Crush on Someone When You Are 24
3. Everwood (I'm totally naming my son Ephram, and I don't care if my mother says she'll call him Peyton instead. Also, I don't care that I'm not Jewish, since apparently Ephram is a Jewish name.)
4. Getting an Excellent Idea for My Classroom (Particularly when I know that I'm going to blow the pants off of my department when I share it at our next meeting, and they will all have to admit my superiority. Competitive much? I know; I can't help it. The older I get, the more I realize that there's a not so small part of me that is truly driven towards world domination.)
5. Being my Students' Favorite Teacher
6. Lizard's Thicket
7. My Sunday Morning Run
8. My Independence
9. Obese Kids
10. Buying New Pants
11. When the Blog Spellcheck wants me to change "Ephram" to "apron."
(11 is such a random number for list-making, isn't it?)

And now, a poem of sorts:

See, I figure,
as long as it's easier to make
List#2
than it is to make
List #1,
I'm doing quite well.