1. Petra Haden’s cover of “Don’t Stop Believin’”:

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(She also covered the entirety of The Who Sell Out. And she’s Charlie Haden’s daughter. And I’m a little obsessed right now).

2. The black jeans I rediscovered in my closet while looking for my purple plaid short pants. New Pants!

3. R.W. Knudsen Spritzers (if you’d like to offer me sponsorship, Knudsen family, I’d be happy to oblige).

4. Cartoons.

5. Randomly running across a carbon copy of an ‘Authorization for Surgery’ form marking my place in a long-ago abandoned book of poetry, and realizing how lucky I am to be through with all that nonsense, and how lucky I was to go through it with the people I did.