1. I’m watching my friend Jason’s cats while he’s in Argentina for a month. Their names are Charlie and Chester, and they are the oddest little things. Chester likes to stare at the bedpost for hours. Charlie has a nobbly little mid-length tail (he’s not a manx: it’s half as long as a normal tail), and a perpetually grouchy loo.

2. Brian’s laugh.

3. Argyle socks and moccasins.

4. Writing an angry letter to my calendar’s manufacturer. I’ll probably never send it, but seriously, the thing fell apart weeks ago and it’s not even February. Anyway, the writing was cathartic.

5. Cats snoring and purring simultaneously.