From Florida:
1) Gainesville gators in heat (or whatever the equivalent term is for gators) - mouths open and moving about like tiny prehistoric joke-shop dinosaurs
2) my best friend from way back now a middle-aged property owner and I'm not entirely without envy
3) the irony of the Golden Corral buffet
4) right to life/death penalty
5) The American Family is an entirely hypothetical proposition
(two college girls covertly sharing ritalin at the table next to me - to help them study better...)
Books I never read:
1) How to Win Friends and Influence People
2) As I lay Dying
3) Mad Magazine anthologies 1990 - present
4) Death of A Saleman
5) Pussy King of the Pirates
BONUS - my mom's diary (at least not all of it) (I didn't even know she kept one!)