Today is opening day for the New York Yankees, which, for my baseball-loving boyfriend is more exciting than Christmas (especially since he's Jewish). I'm not opposed to the sport — or the team — and may even tag along to a couple of games with him this season (oh please let them be fast ones!), but there are certainly a few other things I'd rather do with my time than watch a bunch of over-paid guys in tights and jockstraps play tag with each other for four hours straight. After the jump, ten things I'd rather do than sit through an entire 9-inning baseball game:

1. Trim my cuticles
2. Make small talk at a dinner party for half an hour with one of my boyfriend's former girlfriends
3. Sit in gridlock, rush hour traffic for 20 minutes
4. Watch a Jennifer Aniston movie (at least they're short)
5. Get stuck in a subway sitting next to a man with bad BO. (I can always switch cars at the next stop!)
6. Try on bathing suits
7. Read Julia Allison's dumb dating column in Time Out New York
8. Stand in line at the DMV for a new drivers license
9. Pick up dry cleaning
10. Do my taxes (at least I have an excuse to get cute file folders like these to help organize!)

[$7, See Jane Work]

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