▲▲▲ nicole amber kost

▼ when calendars cram 23/30 (and 24/31) into one square

▲ visiting a new county

▲ carthage underground

▲ being married

▲ pomegranate lychee green tea

▲ old portland sidewalks

▲ the burger king

▲ mcmenamins

▼ the plastic sticker on a new cd case

▲ trying to laugh silently

▲ blueberry juice

▼ commercials before movies

▲ self-adhesive postage stamps

▲ biff henderson's america

▲ southern accents

▲ having a secret list, too

▲ arriving in a city i've never visited

▼ the tedium of looking for the best deal

▲ debbie downer

▼ swearing

▲ "portland, oreg."

▼ phrase: "Who'da thunk it?"

▲ car talk

▲ not-from-concentrate orange juice

▲ letterpress

▲ mazes

▲ word: numismatics

▲ the sound of a coach's whistle

▲ mario kart 64

▲ astoria, oregon

▲ caves

▲ wheelies

▲ making a half-court shot

▲ music: weezer (blue album), weezer

▲ making lists

▲ woodcut illustrations

▲ stone stairways

▲ classic cartoon sound effects

▲ "wiggly" roads

▲ happy little fat dogs

▲ the smell of carbonless copies

▼ word: nosh

▲ shortcut keys

▲ music: the chemical brothers

▲ grandparents' travel trailer, circa 1982

▲ tv: "macgyver"

▲ sweet navel oranges

▲ craftsman-style houses

▲ grilled cheese sandwiches

▲ waterfalls

▲ large-format photography

▲ t-shirts from small, unknown businesses

▲ old telephones

▲ unimog trucks

▲ model train layouts

▲ wax seals on old letters

▲ mochi ice cream

▲ little green army men

▲ word: bauxite

▲ watching the odometer roll over

▲ film: waking ned divine

▲ word: gumption

▼ wendy's embarrassingly yellow napkins

▲ word: genuflect

▲ actor: donald sutherland

▲ the turners

▲ "doy!"

▲ scott's drawings of trucks

▲ german road-sign font

▲ date stampers

▲ lexan water bottles (e.g. nalgene, lifeline)

▼ well-intentioned, but unnecessary, courtesy

▼ last-second lane mergers

▲ calling a wool cap a "joe cap"

▲ confirmation numbers

▲ film: the truman show

▲ cobalt blue

▲ truck stops

▲ word: sluice

▲ tahoma bottled water

▲ book: the brothers k

▲ getting carded

▲ music: moby

▲ snickerdoodles

▲ direct deposit

▲ freezing rain

▲ kettle chips

▲ biddy mcgraw's

▼ peeling off an extra, blank sticky note

▲ word: stochastic

▲ tree forts

▲ bacon bits

▼ paper cuts

▲ getting a good dig on a hard kill

▲ old photos of portland

▲ street name etymology

▼ popcorn bits stuck in my gums

▲ unscented laundry detergent

▼ pens left uncapped

▲ author: a. w. tozer

▲ banjo breakdowns

▼ entertainment-news (celebrity worship) shows

▲ prank letters

▼ pouring m&m's into the loudest possible container

▲ actors: laurel and hardy

▲ chicago, illinois

▲ music: stevie wonder

▲ bienfang gridded paper

▲ academy awards' annual parade of the dead

▲ my handwriting

▼ "clever" magazine article titles

▲ skydiving

▲ making up names

▲ homemade split pea & ham soup

▲ car chase scenes

▲ old company logos

▲ glacier national park

▼ incessant whining from the payroll department

▲ oneonta gorge

▲ film: whale rider

▲ sunny saturdays in late winter

▲ salted walnuts

▲ 3.14159265358979323846...

▲ edo, the ethiopian parking lot attendant

▲ road trips

▲ music: enya

▼ photo radar

▲ predictive text

▲ sermon podcasts

▲ sequence

▲ water avenue/omsi shortcut

▲ chevy trail blazer

▲ perforated paper

▲ pineapple juice

▲ unabridged dictionary

▲ the smell of an old book

▼ my clutter

▲ word: nomenclature

▲ finishing laundry

▲ actor: morgan freeman

▲ "i love you"

▲ sleeping in

▲ music: phil keaggy

▲ word: quincunx

▲ steel drums

▲ networks of pipes

▲ cyrillic alphabet

▲ carrot cake

▲ stretching

▲ columbia gorge

▲ music: "variations on 'ah, vous dirai-je, maman'"

▼ tailgaters

▲ music: "alice's restaurant"

▲ four-part harmonization

▲ le happy

▼ actress: kirsten dunst

▲ saddle mountain

▲ cherry red

▲ film: napoleon dynamite

▲ tv: "danger mouse"

▲ cold pizza

▲ photos of trains

▲ word: limacine

▲ automatic stapler

▼ being late to work

▲ time-lapse photography

▲ phonograph records

▲ wearing earplugs to bed

▲ one-point perspective

▲ the way she smelled

▲ music: the chieftains

▼ onions

▲ cathedral park

▲ most portland bridges

▲ big jigsaw puzzles

▼ crumbs on the mousepad

▲ japanese gardens

▲ the smell of the forest

▲ space heater

▲ paying off a loan

▲ hitting the post

▼ cell phones ringing in the office

▼ chronic complainers

▲ secret passageways

▲ ufo pizza

▲ found alphabets

▲ the art of andy goldsworthy

▲ slightly underripe bananas

▲ receiving personal mail

▲ silent, restrained laughter

▲ dd/mm/yyyy

▼ bleu cheese

▼ whispering "whoo-hoo!"

▲ alternating tread stairs

▲ straight lines

▲ alphabetization

▲ organizing music files

▼ long fingernails typing

▼ cold cheddar cheese

▲ gold paperclips