Guilty Pleasures

Melissa tagged me to do a meme about my guilty pleasures (hi, M!).

I used to hate memes. They too much remind of being in elementary schools and writing in my friends journals which always felt more like pressure that fun. You would want to stay truthful to your SELF but also would have to try so hard to be unique AND creative and nothing kills creativity faster than the desire to be creative in public. Recently, I’ve come around, though. I’ve realized that memes are actually a pretty fantastic way to take a quick look at yourself and have a good laugh. So here is my slightly shortened version on this (for explanation why, see #3 below).

My six guilty pleasures:

1. Our apartment is very humid and that made our front door swell up a little bit. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to close it so we got our landlord’s permission to slam it as hard as we need to. Every morning, when I leave for work, I ask Prof. Grady to come close the door after me because it’s easier for him to do it. I do feel guilty for asking because, actually, it is really not THAT difficult. BUT it gives me so much pleasure to have his smiley face be the last thing I see when I head for the office. Gives my day such a great start.

2. I constantly scour other people’s blogrolls for interesting new bloggers to read and admire. It’s tons of fun but it makes me feel totally guilty for not having a blogroll of my own. I just have never been able to figure out how to do that. Do I include only my friends’ blogs? But some of my favorite blogs are of people I do not know…Also, I go through periods where I obsess over one particular blog and then completely forget about it for months. Sometimes I return back to it, sometimes it doesn’t. Not a simple decision at all.

3. I often blog while at work. I do it when I need a break and/or things have temporarily slowed down. I do feel guilty about it because I know I could easily be doing something more productive but I keep reminding myself that people relax differently so it’s ok.

4. I love to eat Nutella straight out of the jar.

5. I do have a bit of a People Dot Com problem. Star Tracks is by far my most favorite section. Followed closely by their more recent addition of They Said What?

6. I worry that 50 cent’s In Da Club might be my favorite song of all times.

Now, I’d really love to have the following six people list 6 guilty pleasures of their own:

1. Prof. Grady
2. Dr. J
3. Fran
4. Steve
5. Erika
6. Everyone who feels like listing their own: either as a comment or on their own blog. Just be sure to let us know you’re doing it!

Wheeeeeeee!