Home sick, insanely bored, too medicated to think deeply, so, one of these things:

10 bands/singers I'm really into lately

1. Rilo Kiley
2. Iron & Wine
3. Built to Spill
4. Magnetic Fields
5. Radiohead
6. Whiskeytown
7. Descendents
8. Wilco
9. Son Volt
10. Eels

9 things that make me smile

1. Sitting on the patio in the sun
2. Wine and lots of it
3. Mat Coward's Success, and How to Avoid It
4. Playing cards with Scott and Lynne
5. The cats playing with their feather-on-a-string
6. A pile of good books waiting to be read
7. Chicken breasts wrapped in bacon
8. A P.G. Wodehouse audiobook
9. A flowering cactus

8 things I wear daily

1. Sandals
2. Pants
3. Boxers
4. Shirt
5. Er... contact lenses
6. A robe
7. Headphones?
8. Hmm
9. I wouldn't be well-equipped for strip poker...

7 things that annoy me

1. Running out of ink for my printer
2. Magazines that spell my name wrong in the ToC (c'mon, it's 8 letters! and my name isn't "Tom"!)
3. Having a cold
4. Running out of milk
5. The necessity of car maintenance
6. Having to shave daily
7. The necessity of haircuts

6 things I'm looking foward to

1. Season 3 of Oz on DVD
2. Complete Wonderfalls on DVD
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (for Xbox)
4. Publication of my novel
5. My wedding
6. Honeymoon in Hawaii

5 things I'm scared of

1. Failing as a writer
2. Lifelong poverty
3. Root canals
4. Causing a car accident
5. Death

4 things that are on my desk

1. My iPod
2. Utility knife
3. February issue of Locus
4. Heap of unrecorded receipts

3 movies I could watch over and over again

1. The Maxx (sort of cheating, since it was a television series in 10-minute episodes, but it's a cohesive single story)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Philadelphia Story

2 of my favorite songs at the moment

1. "Glendora", Rilo Kiley
2. "Plea from a Cat Named Virtue", the Weakerthans

1 person I could spend the rest of my life with

1. Heather Shaw