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Anna tagged me for a meme. That hasn't happened in a couple years. It's not a bad one, so I may as well incorporate it into my usual flailing about the awesomeness of life:
The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 7 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.
So, in reverse chronological order of recency, and not itemized by priority or hierarchy, here are ten things that recently made me happy.
1. Stephan's ability to accept my difference of opinion for the sake of pluralism, despite the fact that the side I support apparently causes him great distress and fear for the future of society (and no, it's not about the election; he gets this worked up over the structure of theatre). We sat in the car for half an hour in my driveway after he brought me home, talking about how it's possible to have a removed perspective of the cycle of suburbia.
2. Lovett College's opening-night production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Dan and Paul were hazardously humorous, and I am proud of them, as well as the girls. It's a difficult four-person show, and they did so well with it I hardly ever stopped laughing. Neither did most of my seatmates. Which brings me to
3. Joodles. He is a beacon of positive enthusiasm. It is extremely difficult not to be happy around him. Especially since
4. Another salsa party has been posited and confirmed by most attendees. It will be a spectacular and memorable event in the way only things you do at home can be. As college theatre is:
5. I have DVDs of both Thursdays and both Saturdays of JCS, and Susanne (who came to the Lovett show tonight) wants to watch one with me, having met Joodles and seen Paul onstage now, in addition to hearing about it nonstop for months.
6. Alex, the frequently gruff and hard-put-upon stage manager of the opera department, factotum of rehearsal, and sarcastic sidekick of Debbie the director, brought everyone a box of candy sweethearts at today's staging. I love those things.
7. The jewel-pommelled knife I bought at the Renaissance festival last time I went rides around in my backpack, and works like a charm for peeling oranges when I have no time to get real lunch before Origins & Evolution of Language (happens fairly often on Thursdays, after
8. I had time to sleep some more over lunch).
9. Two episodes of the addictive and often substanceless crack that is Torchwood are on my hard drive, waiting to be watched.
10. Stephen Connolly, registral foundation of the King's Singers, my resonant idol and exemplar of tonal and timbral and intonational clarity, answered my late-night rambling e-mail IN LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.
Since I do not tag the involuntary, consider yourself tagged if you read this and feel like spreading the meme. It's a nice experience, almost as nice as image-Googling hippie hugs.
The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 7 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.
So, in reverse chronological order of recency, and not itemized by priority or hierarchy, here are ten things that recently made me happy.
1. Stephan's ability to accept my difference of opinion for the sake of pluralism, despite the fact that the side I support apparently causes him great distress and fear for the future of society (and no, it's not about the election; he gets this worked up over the structure of theatre). We sat in the car for half an hour in my driveway after he brought me home, talking about how it's possible to have a removed perspective of the cycle of suburbia.
2. Lovett College's opening-night production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Dan and Paul were hazardously humorous, and I am proud of them, as well as the girls. It's a difficult four-person show, and they did so well with it I hardly ever stopped laughing. Neither did most of my seatmates. Which brings me to
3. Joodles. He is a beacon of positive enthusiasm. It is extremely difficult not to be happy around him. Especially since
4. Another salsa party has been posited and confirmed by most attendees. It will be a spectacular and memorable event in the way only things you do at home can be. As college theatre is:
5. I have DVDs of both Thursdays and both Saturdays of JCS, and Susanne (who came to the Lovett show tonight) wants to watch one with me, having met Joodles and seen Paul onstage now, in addition to hearing about it nonstop for months.
6. Alex, the frequently gruff and hard-put-upon stage manager of the opera department, factotum of rehearsal, and sarcastic sidekick of Debbie the director, brought everyone a box of candy sweethearts at today's staging. I love those things.
7. The jewel-pommelled knife I bought at the Renaissance festival last time I went rides around in my backpack, and works like a charm for peeling oranges when I have no time to get real lunch before Origins & Evolution of Language (happens fairly often on Thursdays, after
8. I had time to sleep some more over lunch).
9. Two episodes of the addictive and often substanceless crack that is Torchwood are on my hard drive, waiting to be watched.
10. Stephen Connolly, registral foundation of the King's Singers, my resonant idol and exemplar of tonal and timbral and intonational clarity, answered my late-night rambling e-mail IN LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.
Since I do not tag the involuntary, consider yourself tagged if you read this and feel like spreading the meme. It's a nice experience, almost as nice as image-Googling hippie hugs.