Worth getting up for in November: Dr. Dog, Midtown Dickens, Matthew E. White at Haw River Ballroom; Justin Townes Earle, and Tift for the third time this fall, at the Cradle; roadtrips with the girls to Wilmington; the beach in fall; Skyfall and Daniel Craig and Judi Dench and Javier Bardem; “YER A WIZARD, JAMES”; colored tights; pink hair; my motorcycle boots; buying perfect Christmas gifts on sale; our Thanksgiving dinner, and shep.’s delicious stuffing; the turkey stuffing gravy melt I made myself with leftovers; new levels on Angry Birds; football naps; the SEC championship game not sucking (technically this happened in December, but whatevs); the cheese plates at the Eddy; re-watching Bones on DVD and re-reading the Reichs novels; the new Michael Connelly and new Margaret Maron novels; regular sheets swapped for jersey sheets; fall weather sleeps.