A long one, so I can get all the summer things in. In no particular order.
- Taking the Staten Island ferry at sunset
- The first moment when you step out of air conditioning into the heat
- Wireless DSL
- Thai food, especially pineapple fried rice and Pad See Euw
- High-thread-count bedsheets, fluffy towels, and down duvets
- Bathrobes
- Finding a movie you haven't watched in years on cable
- Taking a unscheduled day off of work
- The Cyclone at Coney Island
- The quick surge of waves around your feet as you walk on the beach
- The Brooklyn Bridge. Walking across it, looking at it, whatever. Its mere existence.
- Brooklyn Bridge Park / Empire Fulton Ferry Park
- Picnics -- or actually eating al fresco, period
- Having hot dogs, french fries, and cold beer at a baseball game
- The goofy between-innings activities stadiums sponsor at baseball games (especially small-time ones)
- Lying under a tree on a sunny day, reading
- Ski lifts
- Miniature golf
- Sirius satellite radio, particularly its all-Elvis channel
- Whitewater rafting
- Lingering over dinner, tea, coffee, or drinks with friends
- Having a hotel room all to yourself
- Camper shoes, even just to look at, and all sparkly shoes, especially when they're on sale
- The ten minutes after you finish a really good book or movie, when you're still in a trance about What Happened and What It Means
- My digital camera
- Bar trivia
- Fine stationery
- Good pens
- Taking tours of interesting/significant places
- Commuter trains
- The songs "Love Train" by the O'Jays, "Last Train to Clarksville" by Cassandra Wilson, and "The Book of Love" by the Magnetic Fields
- Risotto and couscous
- High teas, particularly the warm scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam
- The mariachi singers on the uptown 6 train (I never see them coming downtown)
- Bryant Park -- tied with Cherry Hill for my favorite place in Manhattan
- Cooking for friends
- Being cooked for by friends
- My banana oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies
- Those cool cello cases with wheels on the bottom, and seeing someone wheeling them down the street or on the subway
- The flamboyantly dressed dancers in the West Indian Day parade
- The music from the parade shaking the whole neighborhood, making even the whitest person there (that is, me) groove a little
- Discovering new cuisines (Trinidadian, in this instance)
- People playing cricket and kickball in Prospect Park (and practicing tap-dancing!)
- Katy, Rachel, Melissa, and Ginny, who are all brilliant, kind, funny, beautiful women who I am lucky to know
- My terrific family
- Living in New York City
- Alcoholic cupcakes