Five Things that Don't Suck, Home Sweet Home Edition

1. making the Pittsburgh/Attleboro run in under 9.5 hours
2. wondering how many parsecs that is
3. looking it up and discovering a parsec is a unit of distance, not time
4. wondering how far the Kessel run is and how it compares to Rt. 80 in Pennsylvania
5. Pennsylvania

Five Things that Don't Suck, Whoops Edition

1. having so much fun on the road that I forget all about the FTTDS list
2. forgetting about a bunch of other things
3. stealing the awesome dog that lives here*
4. good friends who take you as you are
5. knowing that I'll see them again really really soon

*well, who lives here FOR NOW. Tomorrow, he comes home with me**
**not really***
***unless I can figure out how to steal him

Five Things that Don't Suck, Getting Ready Edition

1. packing
2. clean laundry
3. being on top of things
4. the realization that I'll be with good but distant friends soon
5. road trips

Five Things that Don't Suck, Phew Edition

1. finishing two major projects that I'd been worried about
2. learning new stuff
3. realizing that perhaps other people have a more accurate idea of my skills than I do
4. designing a book cover*
5. using a 20 year-old pair of Jed's PJ pants to do it*

*!!!!!

Five Things that Don't Suck, Flag Day Edition

1. flags
2. the fact that I can remember a little "June fourteenth is Flag Day / Hang the banner out" poem from somewhere in elementary school
3. my brother
4. my brother's birthday
5. the possibility of not having "You're A Grand Old Flag" stuck in my head all day*

*theoretical

Five Things that Don't Suck, Can't Keep My Days Straight Edition

1. Tuesdays, even when you think it's Wednesday
2. unless it's Monday, though Monday doesn't suck, either*
3. or Saturday. Saturday definitely doesn't suck. Is it Saturday?
4. Sunday
5. Friday

*no it doesn't. If Monday sucks because you have to go back to work, don't blame the day. Blame the job.

Five Things that Don't Suck, First Day of CORE Edition

1. meeting a bunch of incoming first-year students
2. my friend who made jokes about the Jimi Hendrix Orientation and Registration Experience
3. how nervous the students are going to be
4. how much less nervous they'll be afterwards
5. new adventures