Huffing and puffing up Mt. Dissertation
Antiques, old houses, old cemeteries, art, books, piano, cooking, coffee, herbal tea, chocolate, cheese, politics (in limited quantities), history, Egypt, writing, paying as little as possible for fly clothes, farmers markets, thrift stores, making cards, being outside, picking flowers from Other People's Yards, referring to the current pope as "B-16"
Gospel quartets, jazz, old R&B and soul, Mozart operas, Bach, shapenote, bluegrass.... love me some Ryan Adams and Lyle Lovett too... along with any mixed CD that my sister makes... and Sam Cooke
Wedding Singer
Chocolat
Quiz Show
Amadeus
Mean Girls
Little Women
Guys and Dolls
Chicago
Colbert Report... is there anything else on? (Besides Grey's, esp. before it became even more maudlin and improbable than it used to be.) (Also--a little Family Guy never hurt anybody.)
Too many to list. A recent hit: Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.