N.B.C. -- this one's for you, girl!

Does anyone else have a best friend who assigns homework? Maybe because she's a teacher, and spends every day surrounded by 4th graders, she thinks she can pull one of those teachable moments on me. "N.B.C." (her nickname since 10th grade) knows I've been down in the dumps (yes, an oversimplification to the nth degree), thus she has assigned me the task of writing down some good things about my life, what makes me happy, yadda, yadda, yadda.

And since she was insistent on what has always remained the best thing about me, I shall honor her by making it # 1. So N.B.C., here's my homework list:

(1) I have great hair.

(2) May Sweeps is just around the corner!

(3)"The Young & The Restless" isn't just a sopa opera . . . it also happens to be where I work, and it's highly entertaining.

(4) I have worked my ass off to have the body I have.

(5) Patrick Dempsey is back, baby!!!