Yesterday while tearing through a pile of work, I decided that I needed something to watch while I toiled. I pulled out my Special Collector's Edition of the full series of Gilmore Girls and stuck in Season 1 from the beginning.

Before long, I was once again reminded why this show was one of the best shows on television. It's smart, funny, dramatic, and Lauren Graham is absolutely gorgeous (and so was Alexis Bledel once she got a year or two older). I love this show. And just to further belabor that point, here are the top five ways that I'm the number one fan of the Gilmore Girls:

5. I have an annotated map of Stars Hollow hanging on my office wall, along with a little cardboard figure of myself that I move around the town every day. Today I'm hanging out at Al's Pancake World.

4. I am writing a screenplay in which Lauren Graham simply reads the phone book on screen. I have high hopes for its marketability.

3. Anytime I meet someone named Luke, I squeal and say, "Like the guy on the show!"

2. When I hear the name Paris, I think of Paris Geller, not Paris Hilton.

1. My testicles are named Lorelai Gilmore and Sookie St. James.

I'm already halfway through Season 1, and I can't wait to keep making my way through the whole series again, revisiting some of my favorite characters since it's been way too long, getting upset about the Dean/Rory breakup, hating Jesse, liking Max, hating Christopher, liking the Logan/Rory relationship, loving Luke and Lorelai, hating Emily and Richard's separation, crying at the speech Rory gives at her graduation, and loving Lane's mother.