We had a talk last night about genres, and Oliver has this really cool theory about how you can guess a person’s favorite by certain facts about their life. It was hilarious and fun (and a topic for another post). Thinking I was slick, I asked him to tell me MY favorite genre.

I want to go to there…

“Adventure,” he says, without skipping a beat. “Because you’re not into taking risks.”

Grumpface. He’s totally right, of course, even though I really wanted to argue. I am notoriously risk averse. I’...