Reasons to be Cheerful

[jlh]

1. sistermagpie and I are going to see the So You Think You Can Dance tour in October! I'm really, really excited. I used some Xmas money I had saved to pay for it as a little treat for myself and I'm just really pleased that we got tickets and good seats and it's going to be a great evening, I know.
   
2. After a month of having my kitchen in my living room while the exterminator did his work and then my being slow about putting everything away and cleaning everything up—having to wait until the heat broke because I can't run the dishwasher and the air conditioner as they are on the same circuit—my apartment is actually, finally clean. Swept and tidied and things back in their place and not the completely depressing, dark hovel of grossness that it's been since at least mid-July. I'm hoping this will help my overall mood and productivity.
   
3. Miscellany:
   1. The weather is really pretty and I didn't have to have my AC on yesterday which I love, because I love fresh air.
      
   2. I also love my cat because she's just adorable.
      
   3. I remembered to make chai which I'd been sort of forgetting about lately.
      
   4. The elevator in my building is working again so I got a bagel for breakfast yesterday morning and this morning.
      
   5. My new anti-anxiety charm: Liza with a "Z"
      
   6. While the new pasta salad recipe I tried this week wasn't that good (but can probably be saved in the next batch) and was annoying to get through for lunch this week, the mango chicken salad was excellent, better than the best curry chicken salad.
      
   7. I like my new sharpies but why don't they come in a fun container? (For you junkies, I got the 12-color fine point.)

Here is the book meme I never got around to:

1. Grab the nearest book.
   
2. Open the book to page 123.
   
3. Find the fifth sentence.
   
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
   
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
   
6. Tag five people. ceilidh assumed that everyone had done it, except I hadn't, but I can't think of anyone who hasn't, so if you haven't, do it.

A third group of Pennsylvania Republicans consisted of country-based insurgents who came to be known, memorably (after a derisive remark by McKean), as the Clodhopper Democrats. Their foremost figure was the future governor Simon Snyder, an exemplar of how ambitious country democrats of modest backgrounds could attain the highest state offices. Born in Lancaster, Snyder had moved to southeastern Northumberland County in 1784, a partially schooled twenty-four-year-old. By working as a journeyman tanner and as a scrivener, Snyder made enough money to purchase some land, build a mill, and open a store.

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2005), p.123.

Comments

[bhanesidhe.livejournal.com]

"Yay" for the love of the hellcat and fine-point goodness! XD

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I feel it would be sort of pretentious of me to get one of the cool pencil boxes that you and Alison use for my sharpies but that whole pen cup thing really doesn't work for me since I don't really have a desk. What to do, what to do.

She's been like, almost absurdly great lately.

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

The sharpies should definitely come with a cute container! Mine haven't even made it into my pen holder at work yet - it just isn't spiffy enough for the cheery colors of the sharpies. Perhaps I need to make one as part of my occupational therapy for the week... ;) *hugs*

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I need something flat that can go into a little caddy drawer, rather than a cup, because I don't really have a desk. I'd get a cool pencil box except that seems sort of pretentious.

You were so right about it making to do lists better!

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

I have a desk - it is covered with papers and post-it notes and eleventy-hundred other things, so flad doesn't work so well for me. I have a cool vase thingy that has an iris on it - I'm not sure if it is cute enough for the sharpies, though. ;) And I think you should totally get a pencil box - you must keep the sharpies safe and happy, you know! :D

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll get a not quite so artsy pencil box. Maybe I'll get a 100% silly pencil box at Target when I'm home in a couple of weeks.

Maybe I should email my mother to let her know I'm coming home for a few days, eh? heh.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Hee! Mine was a present to myself too. How cool are we with our awesome seats?!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

There's this punk song where they talk about all the things Jesus did in the New Testament and they go, "That's cool. Jesus was way cool." So I would say, we are way cool in manner of Jesus.

Maya, apparently, feels we will be an oasis of greatness (see below).

[dramawench.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous that you got tickets to the tour!!! I really want to go, but don't think it's in my budget alas. I want to throw flowers at Heidi and Benji in person :D

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I'm really excited and I promise I will post all details!

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

I just like thinking of you and sistermagpie in one place at one time, like an oasis of greatness.
I also enjoy saying 'oasis of greatness.' ;)