Oh, right! I forgot!

There's something about Daylight Savings time here in New York that I'd forgotten about, having been away all summer last year, and only having come back in time for DST to reset itself and the long dark of winter to descend.

Afternoons in my apartment are impossibly bright. With the added hour of daylight, the sun's arc toward sunset is longer (and, as summer wears on, slower - so it seems to me), and my apartment fills with the most gloriously bright light, especially on cloudless days, into which this one has turned.

It's so bright in my apartment, that I have to take a three or four hour break from using my computer, or watching TV, 'cuz the ambient, reflected light is everywhere, obscuring screens. Just about the only usual entertainment available during these hours is reading with my back to the windows.

I could, of course, buy some blinds or curtains, but where's the fun in that? And anything that drives me away from the TV and computer can't really be a bad thing, can it?

I've already gotten e-mails from a couple of friends who've been teasing me about the impossibly young boy from Play Without Words upon whom I'm crushing.

Come on, people! I never said I was going to do anything about it! Just that I thought he was cute and I pined for him.

So, in answer to my "critics," here are a couple of delightful (age appropriate) men upon whom I also have crushes! George Eads, and Alistair Appleton. Even better, Alistair is openly gay. And a Buddhist. So there.

I don't know from George. I just know he's impossibly hot.