Here are six things I like. Perhaps you will like them, too.

1. Spending St Patrick’s Day drinking novelty martinis at a sake bar. Typically St Patrick’s Day, like Halloween and New Year’s Eve, is a terrible, terrible night to go drinking in Manhattan. But it turns out that Japanese places don’t really serve green beer, and are thus blessedly un-packed. Also recommended: wearing black pants, so that when you spill your dark purple pomtini a couple hours into the evening, nobody can tell.
2. Parents. Who else would sacrifice an entire weekend to drive to New York City and shuttle you around for two days doing errands that require a car, including braving Ikea on a Saturday? And then help you drill things that need drilling and hang things that need hanging and move furniture that needs moving and then take you out for awesome Mexican food? It’s a short list, let me tell you.
3. I have two podcasts to recommend. One is the second Penny Arcade D&D series, which is good for entertaining me during my new, longer commute. The other is Planet Money, which is good for depressing the fucking hell out of me during my new, longer commute. But in a fun, informative way! If you’ve listened to any of the This American Life shows on the economy (The Giant Pool of Money, Another Frightening Show About the Economy, Bad Bank), Planet Money is in the same vein. And if you haven’t listened to any of those TAL shows, you really should.
4. And speaking of the colossal mindfuck that is the economy, brown bagging it is also recommended. I was really good about brining my own lunch to work for a long time, years ago. Then I got very lazy. Now I’m trying to get back in that habit again, and after just a couple of weeks it’s sort of shocking how much money I’m actually saving. Which means, of course, that it’s shocking how much money I was spending on lunch. But let’s be positive, here.
5. Another reason packing your lunch is recommended is that you then don’t feel as guiltly when you overspend on a delightful, ridiculous lunch once in a while. Like hopping a cab to Stand in the middle of the day for a chicken burger and hazelnut chocolate milkshake with a much-missed former coworker. The milkshake, by the way, is also heartily recommended.
6. And finally, my iPhone app recommendation at the moment is Zen Bound. It’s a lovely, lovely game.