1. Dreaming of a world in which no one ever, ever uses “Born To Be Wild” in a car commercial or public service announcement (including those entitled GRATITUDE: PASS IT ON) ever again. Ever.

2. A new Chinese place opening in my neighborhood that not only has scallion pancakes and vegetable dumplings (both sorely lacking from my previous regular haunt) but also a startling selection of other vegetarian stuff - I had no idea General Tso made soy chicken, too.

3. A breezy Wednesday with a high of 72 and low humidity. This is the kind of weather that makes me actually happy to live walking distance from the beach, even if that beach is at Coney Island and is constantly populated with sweaty tourists and fellow Brooklynites selling mysterious things from within their deeply pocketed coats.

4. Freelance checks arriving sooner than expected, despite coming all the way from the mighty Canadia.

5. The fact that I haven’t cleaned out my inbox in weeks. Okay, maybe happy’s not quite the word for that. As the number of messages waiting in my inbox creeps into more digits than I’m fully comfortable with, I admit it’s becoming a little daunting. But I swear, I’ll get started on it tonight. Honestly.

6. The fact that Ernie has plans for yet another webgame. They’re voyeurlicious!