in my cd player... Archers of Loaf All the Nations Airports   on the page... Isak Dinesen Out of Africa   into... purple mums; my new car insurance rates; long lovely dinners in the South End of my geographical past; having HBO and therefore, Sex and the City; Erika's evil macadamian nuts and liquid gold Hawaiian coffee treats   Golden disappointment... I really like Robert Downey, Jr. I do. In Home for the Holidays he was grounded and piercingly real. But his clever Ally McBeal lawyer tricks have nothing on the endless enthusiasm and brilliance and soul that is Joshua Lyman.   Nothing.   the real "Quincy"... John Quincy Adams took his oath of office on a gigantic volume of Constitutional Law.   That rocks!   a new workspace... Watching Ari Fleischer give his first White House press briefing on C-SPAN today I couldn't begin to imagine what it felt like to be in that room, doing his thing for the first time.   Goose bumps.   he can wash my hair any day... Erika and I finally watched Out of Africa together, as we've been planning to do for months. And as the end credits rolled, I sighed, as I always sigh, "I want a farm in Africa... at the foot of the Ngong Hills."