0: excuses for not watching every last one of the Toothpaste for Dinner videos and the Natalie Dee videos—I tell ya, that Charles, he sure has a licking problem

4: sleeps until the big show

6: years in the new broadcast deal that will keep HNIC on CBC until 2014

6ish: weeks until the wedding

8: sleeps until mom comes to visit

10: fingernails polished black—so satisfying

9–14: pages in the March 2007 issue of Language Update occupied by the article Emmanuelle and I wrote

15: new pictures on the Maui flickr site

100: percent chance that mom and I will be watching Rita McNeil's Cape Breton when she's here

207: words I should be translating right now _{instead of watching Dancing with the Stars}