This blog is not more commentary on Facebook. I’ve been spouting a lot of that lately, and I’m glad to give us all a break. Rather, my heading refers to the fact that I received an e-mail through Facebook last week about a podcast I did a while back. At the end of the interview, Kimberly Wilson asked me if I could recommend any blogs that I follow. That’s the type of question that, when asked, the answers scatter out of your brain immediately. I fumbled through my answer and remembered this awesome blog where the bloggette (is that what we’re called?) posts her To-Do lists. (I’m not making it sound as interesting as it really is). I just couldn’t remember the exact URL of the blog while I was on air—it had something to do with writing a novel and buying eggs. And here it is: http://writenovel-buyeggs.blogspot.com/ I said on the podcast that I’d post the URL on my blog—which I forgot to do. Then I got my friendly Facebook reminder from someone who had listened to the podcast recently and searched my blog (in vain) for the link.

Speaking of To-Do lists: I’ve been meaning to wax poetic about Sasha Cagen and her book To Do Lists: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (book trailer below). I think lists—both practical and fanciful—are so important to keep, and this book is a hilarious celebration of that. I’ve come across several to-do lists that I’ve written and howled at the strange ways I’ve prioritized my tasks or simply the way I’ve worded my tasks. I lived with a girl a few years back and caught a glimpse of one of her lists. It went something like . . .

- Return movies
- Send Resume
- Budweiser Frogs

What? I, of course, couldn’t ask about that last one because then she’d know I read her list (which was in plain view anyway). So I say list away! Write the tasks you’d like to get done today and the big dreams you’d like to accomplish in your lifetime. Few things feel better than crossing items off your to-do list. Lately, I’ve taken to writing down topics of conversation. When I know I’m going to see someone—a cousin, an old friend—I write down some of the things I want to tell them, because I always seem to forget when I get there. These lists are funny because you’re not going to write down the whole conversation—you’ll pick a word or two that’ll remind you of what you have to say. Here’s a conversation list I made recently (I offer no explanation, only the list):

To Discuss

- Bachelor June 13th
- 7:39 Train
- Pulling it Off: I dared myself to pose nude, but I had more to shed than my clothes

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