So bdar just tagged me with this 5 Guilty Pleasures meme. Given my penchant for insecurity and neuroticism, you could argue that all pleasures are guilty for me. But anyway:

1. Snickers and Diet Coke for breakfast.
Breakfast of champions. Hey, cut me some slack, it used to be full-on Coke, okay? Do I feel even guiltier buying a Diet-Coke to wash down a king-size Snickers at 9:30am? Maybe, what of it?

2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Veronica Mars.
I know that there are many people who view these shows as regular pleasures, but I still have trouble admitting that I like them when I don't know someone very well. It's the fact that they masquerade as WB (or UPN) teen shows that make it hard for me to cop to. But they're brilliant, so f@#k off.

3. Star Trek in all its forms...well, not Enterprise.
It's a little less now than it used to be, largely due to the soul-crushing mediocrity of Enterprise. But I can remember whole Saturdays in High School popping in Star Trek: The Motion Picture early in the morning and finishing Star Trek VI: The Final Frontier sometime that evening. Did I watch the one with the whales? Yes, I did. Did I watch the one about finding God, that even Gene Roddenberry disowned? Yes, thank you. Do I know who Zefram Cochrane is? Okay, yes, I do. Do I know about the Eugenics Wars? Damn you, why must you question me? Favorite Star Trek memory: being in the theatre on opening night of Star Trek VI. At the end of the movie, when they figure out how to rig a photon torpedo to seek out a cloaked Bird of Prey, then Sulu and Kirk both lock onto the explosion and blow it to hell and everybody in the movie theatre cheered. Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about.

4. Prison Break.
Yeah, maybe this one shouldn't be a guilty pleasure either, since it got nominated for the Golden Globe and all. But dude, this is pretty much trash-TV. I mean, when your most charismatic character is a pedophile, and the highlight of the season is said pedophile pulling out a razor blade and slashing a suddenly repentant and religious mob boss's throat...that's quality television.

5. Screwing around on the internet at work.
Okay, I know everyone does it. But I'll go for good periods, days without really doing much of anything at work. I kind of stay ahead of the curve, but I think in the back of my head is always the idea that I need to get into graduate school or become independantly wealthy before I get fired. What do I do with my time? Look at people's LJs, compulsively check email and the New Leaf forum, work on my fantasy hockey/baseball team (depending on the season), play online games, do crossword puzzles, whatever.

So there you go.