The Other Twenty-Five Greatest Things About This Summer, in No Particular Order:

1. Alligator sliders in New Orleans with Mike and Gianna

2. Lunch in Bryant Park and the Rhinebeck farmer’s market with Marissa

3. Walking the High Line with my sister

4. John Mayer and Maroon 5 being so delightful

5. In the Heights and Next to Normal scratching my musical-theater itch

6. The roast beef 1000 at Cutty’s

7. Accidental front row at the South Shore Music Circus

8. The Kids Are All Right

9. Wine & cheese with Adrienne & Shana

10. Labor Day on the West Coast

11. Margaritas at La Verdad

12. Cirque du Soleil being surprisingly wonderful

13. Blowing through The Wire with Tom

14. Dates and prosciutto on the roof with Meg

15. Eminem and Jay-Z being just so swell

16. Getting up and going

17. A Covert Affairs marathon with my mom where we sat on the couch for five hours and ate M&Ms and cheddar cheese and talked extensively about how cute Auggie is

18. Finally making it to Crane Beach

19. Everything about Gaga, but mostly her meat dress and that thing about how she thinks boys are going to steal her creativity through her vagina

20. The Ritz cracker mac and cheese at Reagle Beagle

21. A whole day in the swimming pool

22. New blue Converse and gold City Flats

23. Being a slow reader

24. A Really Cool Girl moving back to Boston to drunkenly conquer Martha Stewart craft projects and take me on road trips

25. This.

I’m out, kittens. Happy weekend.