Five Things that Don't Suck, Same Time Next Year Edition

1. a little more time with some of my favorite people
2. the memory of ridiculous amounts of laughter during a time when it has been sorely needed
3. one last awesome breakfast
4. farewells that aren't goodbyes
5. my own bed

Five Things that Don't Suck, Short Sheeted Edition

1. being with people who love you so much that they conspire against you
2. laughing until you can't breathe
3. breathing
4. being known
5. being nowhere near the smartest person in the room

Five Things that Don't Suck, Missing Jed Edition

1. beards
2. gangly men
3. putting my feet up on his side of the couch instead of using my own footrest
4. sleeping next to an actual person instead of a fake person built out of pillows
5. blue eyes over a blue shirt

Five Things that Don't Suck, Late Edition

1. knowing who you are
2. friends willing to remind you
3. honesty
4. sleep
5. aspirin

Five Things that Don't Suck, CT Poets Edition

1. almond crusted French toast
2. running through the woods first thing in the morning
3. talking poetry all day & everything else all night
4. some of the dearest people in the world
5. laughing until your chest hurts

Five Things that Don't Suck, Poet Edition

1. poets
2. retreating with poets
3. the way that non-writers think we sit around and talk about, I don't know, rhyming "bat" and "cat" all day
4. the stuff we actually talk about all day (and night)
5. how incredibly hilarious writers are

Five Things that Don't Suck, Big Blue Bug Edition

1. tooling around Providence
2. or, you know, back and forth from the airport--pick 'em up, pick 'em up, drop 'em off...
3. seriously, a dining room full of writers and wine (and writers full of wine)
4. slumber parties
5. naps