Top Ten Reasons Why I Can No Longer Be Left To My Own Devices:

10) Dropped iPod as exiting the metro car, had to depend on the kindness (and reproaching look) of strangers to pick it up.

9) Spent 5€ on financier pistache from Eric Kayser twice in four days.

8) Shower curtain fell (again). Failed to hang it back up (again).

7) Used “any ol’ light bulb” to replace the latest one that burnt out.

6) Compulsive need to finish any bottle of wine I see, regardless of how full it is, how much I have already consumed, or how long it has been open.

5) Dirty dishes in the sink outnumber the clean ones in the cupboard.

4) Belief that Febreeze accomplishes the same job as the washing machine.

3) Gave phone number, but not name, to random bartender.

2) Monthly iTunes expenditure equal to cable/internet bill.

1) Read very clear label “hand wash cold” on favorite white angora/wool turtleneck sweater after removing it from machine previously set to hot cycle.