Plus:

• Four brand-new 2009 calendars.
• Off-season-substitute sports: football playoffs and hockey in person in the tenth row!
• A new photo project.
• Web comics. (Especially Thinkin’ Lincoln and Nedroid Picture Diary. And, always, Dinosaur Comics.)
• Adding to the list of reasons why I like you.
• Black nail polish.
• Writing on a blank sheet of paper with a nice pen.

Minus:

• Dry, dry, DRY itchy skin.
• Unbearably chapped lips that are impervious to all manner of chapstick.
• More photos of the dismantling of Shea Stadium.
• Baseball season, you are SO FAR AWAY and I spent my evenings pining for you and the hot stove is just not fulfilling my needs any longer, SIGH.
• Sweating the small, insignificant shit, even when I try not to.
• Salt on the windshield.
• Rooms that oscillate between stifling and freezing.

Plus:

• My friends came over.
• My new calendar.
• Panoramic sunroof.
• Baseball season.
• Photos of the sky.
• Smudgy gray eyeliner.
• Pencils with my name on them.

Minus:

• Stomachaches.
• Chilly breezes.
• Twitter in the sidebar? (What do you think?)
• Too-short work pants.
• No ideas for photos.
• Super-long white tank tops for sale instead of NORMAL ones. (I just want a normal one that isn’t super long, why is that so much to ask?)
• Mud.