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A random list of things that some of my friends find hot.

• The uni-brow
• A gap in the front teeth
• Hands
• Hairy legs
• Mustaches on femmes
• Musky body odor
• Goofy social awkwardness
• A book in the back pocket
• Dimples above the butt
• Authentic nerdiness

And a few of my own

• Over bites
• Big noses
• Sitting close and touching legs
• Eye contact
• Painted toe nails pushing through the open toe of shoes with a heel
• Bare skin that is usually covered during colder weather
• Following the proper etiquette for using a fork and knife Continental or European style
• Messy long hair pulled up off the neck onto the back of the head, especially when strand are tucked behind the ear

Some things I’m grateful for:

• good coffee
• my cat Phil
• interesting and challenging work
• the freaks and geeks I know
• really good food
• flirting
• old friends
• going for a run at night

Some things I liked about 2007:

• Camping at Cove Pallisades State Park.
• Okkervil River show at the Northwest Music fest.
• Making the best bolognese sauce ever.
• My new Surly long haul trucker.
  Homemade ice cream from my $5 hand crank ice cream maker.
• Making panzella and nicoise salad with the bounty from my farm share.
• Iron and Wine’s Shepherd’s Dog.
• Writing some great code with the web team at Rejuvenation.
• The Ortlieb panniers I got off Craigslist.
• Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.
• Manilla mangos, picking fresh blue berries, and Rachel’s birthday peach pie.
• Hiking Dog Mountain.
• Calvin Harris’ single Merrymaking at My House.
• Renewing my subscription to the New Yorker.
• Seeing so many of my favorite Hoosiers