the full list
The (always expanding) list of things I like
- Waking up, but with more sleep to go.
- Grammar
- I initially read this wrongly.
- Tickets
- When jokes write themselves.
- Pretending I have superpowers, like the ability to walk quicker than normal.
- Douglas Adams
- Seeing double.
- Quick escapes
- Rain. Heaps and heaps of rain.
- Evolution.
- The latest news
- Reading fiction.
- Trying to make other people yawn.
- Leaving voicemail.
- Clever.
- Sneaking up.
- When things don’t (or can’t) apply to the majority rule.
- Well read arachnids.
- Bathroom wall philosophy.
- Coming across new things on my way home at night.
- Birds with bling.
- Living dangerously.
- Listening to the rain as I go to sleep.
- More rain, more umbrellas.
- How everyone in Melbourne seems to find an umbrella when it rains.
- Angry cats.
- Conducting air orchestras.
- Pretty fingernails.
- Seeing the same four or five people, in the same place every day, as I go to work.
- Seeing how many steps you can walk along the street with your eyes closed before you chicken out and open them again.
- Squeezing the last of the paste
- Tonsils (a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.)
- Inappropriate knives
- Broccoli.
- Fixing things. I put new zip in, but sewing a bit dodgy!
- How the signs of sign makers always seem so dodgy.
- Second hand bookshops with sections in agriculture.
- Driving in Melbourne on AFL Grand Final day. There’s no one around. Perfect.
- How everything can be fixed with a rubber band.
- Rain storms. Well, storms of any type really.
- Trying to ride on the white lines.
- The foam that always forms when boiling eggs.
- A picture of a wombat on a hay bale Thanks Sophie for the picture
- And the inevitable reply
- New notices in the kitchen at work
- When the shoelaces wrapped around power lines Finally rot And the shoe falls back to earth.
- When you get different currency as change, especially a US quarter!
- When you put sugar in your coffee and don’t stir it, it’s really sweet for the last mouthful.
- Another photo for the injury collection. Hockey ball to the head. Tasty.
- Chocolate spread. On a spoon.
- This Irish person’s microwave. Can you guess why?
- How a Costco membersip seems to be the hottest thing in town.
- Conferences! Hello free food.
- This question: if you have two sounds at equal volume, what is the overall volume? And does it make any noise in a forest?
- Catching taxis. Over a foot. This isn’t my foot. It’s part of my injury collection though.
- Taking the stairs.
- Hybrid, “Peking duck” style tea towels. It’s one of a kind.
- Trains that run express. And on time.
- When you sneeze in the dark, you see little lights. For a brief snippet of time.
- Creating firewall rules so no one using my internet connection can read The Age’s worst blogs.
- Trying to make my friends say words they are clearly uncomfortable about saying.
- Peering into people’s cars at traffic lights to see what radio station they listen to. I like to keep a mental tally. It’s like I’m my very own market polling company.
- Clocks that display the correct time, all the time
- Google Maps It means I don’t get lost. As much.
- Rain that’s strong enough to photograph.
- The term “ring up”
- When everyone is waiting at the traffic lights, and no one pushes the button for the little green man. Everyone has to wait another cycle.
- Injuries (especially when you can see flesh) Apparently it’s weird.
- A full moon
- Well designed door handles.