It's funny what happens to your life when you aren't paying attention. For the past few months I have been so obsessively concerned with all the little things, it comes as a surprise that I find myself living in Florida with a boy and a dog. I'm a graduate student. I am taking out yet more student loans. My apartment comes with a dishwasher and a POOL. I have cable television!!! This is the first time in quite a few years that I have been able to watch Sportscenter. In some ways, this is a bad thing, but in others, I feel so much more plugged in to the world. For the longest time, I would be out with people and the conversation would turn to what happened on Trading Spaces or Queer Eye or gee, did you catch the game last night? Uhhh, no. No, I watched Antiques Roadshow. Did any of you catch that? Yeah, the silver tray was actually made by Paul REVERE! It was worth thousands!

But the best part of cable TV? Anderson Cooper 360. Wow. I thought "the Mole" did him in. But he's back...suave! sophisticated! articulate! knowledgeable about current events! I knew he was destined for great things in high school when we would watch him on Channel One every morning, reporting live! amidst great danger! It's so reassuring to see that all that hard work paid off.