Today's Lessons

• Backing into someone's car doesn't have to be a tragedy, especially when they're your super-nice neighbours.
  
• The properties of a can of paint are truly magical.
• When you spend your life in your head, a day of manual labour is always a good idea.
  
• Patience really is a virtue--it keeps you from driving your neurotic self insane.
  
• Nothing smells better when I'm hungry than my sister's homemade tomato sauce on the stove.
  
• Chocolate milk isn't just for kids.
  
• Sometimes, The Man isn't out to screw you. Case in point: Adam Giambrone extending the student discount on Metropasses to university students. Finally!
• Staying at home on a Saturday night and catching up on a week's worth of missed TV is only lame if you think it's lame.
• People still have the ability to suprise me, and most of the time, it's in a good way. The world isn't going to hell in a handbasket after all.
  
• No, your parents will never understand your taste in music. "Mel, is your CD skipping? Oh, no, wait...that's just how it sounds." Animal Collective and Bibio have been on deck for most of the day.