Things I like, part one
- The sky just before the sun rises
- Fast lifts (elevators)
- Oatmeal cookies
- Jean-Luc Godard’s movies
- The Orion nebula
- Bookshelves that are only half full
- Sparsely furnished rooms
- A day without social media
- Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Gould)
- Making lists
Things I Dislike
- War
- Durians
- The Saturday NYT crossword
- Misplaced fog
- Those who park their car so that they occupy two spaces
- Restaurants that serve food curiously quickly (not fast-food)
- Movies > 3.5 hours
- Movies < 1.5 hours
- Discovering I didn’t align the buttons on my shirt when I began buttoning
- Waiting to see a doctor for an hour for a 4-minute consultation
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