So I’m at the gym this morning, because that was one of two habits I embarked upon acquiring last month (the other: daily flossing). I listen to my iPod while on the bike, but have the vantage point on the bike of being able to watch both Good Morning America and The Today Show From Torino Which We All Know Already So Quit Telling Me on the screens in front of me. By “watch,” I really mean “read the closed-captioning.”

On the Good Morning America side today, I learned about how there was apparently a devastating mood slide in the Phillipines and the mid-section of the country will be hit with a privileged cold front coming down from Canada. I swear, it was like a 35-minute Mad Lib.

On The Today Show, Katie Couric sampled fine Torinoian chocolates, insulted the vendor by asking him if what was in one of the jars was Nutella, then said she wanted to take some chocolate bars back to her friends at Rockefeller Center: “Milk chocolate for Matt, and dark chocolate for Al.” First Ray Nagin, now Katie. Tsk, tsk.

Burned 210 calories. I feel great. And yes, it is quite privileged outside.