August 11, 2006

Music: Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Finished a chunk of a project I'm working on in my internship.
2. Got some great advice for some questions I had on the knitting pattern I'm about to start.
3. FINISHED the patterned part on my scarf! Only five rows of garter stitch and weaving in the ends left...
4. Jason and I saw a PUPPY today. It was a beagle too...

August 10, 2006

Music: Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5. Misery level: 8.5.

Good things that happened today:
1. Not so much "good" as "amusing," but hey, it made me smile, so I'll count it. So I was looking at Dashboard widgets for the Mac OS X, and I found one that was a "Positive Quote of the Day" widget. The quote in their example picture was, "But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail." I was amused and wrote them the following e-mail:

I was looking at your "Positive Quote of the Day" widget for the Mac
Dashboard, and I just wanted to say that the quote that you have in your example
picture (Shakespeare, "But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll
not fail") is, I believe, from "Macbeth" -- Lady Macbeth speaking to her husband
about murdering Duncan. I might be wrong, but I'm a well-read English major, so
I think I'm right. ;) If I AM right, it's not really a very positive quote, and
kind of a silly thing to have for your example.

Their reply:

I believe you are correct and I believe you are, in fact, well read. I
also believe that my placement of that particular quote was intentional ;-)

Hee.

2. I think I did something right that I'd been trying to do at fencing tonight. :)
3. Enjoyable dinner tonight. Sat with some people I don't talk to frequently enough, and then a girl came and sat with us who I had a class with but haven't seen for months. I had initially wanted to go be antisocial and read on my own while eating, but I'm glad that I ate with people instead.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Tea.
2. Boyfriends -- specifically, mine. ;)

August 9, 2006

Music: Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7ish

Good things that happened today:
1. My boyfriend was a darling, and there were many hugs and kisses at lunch. Also (VERY VERY VERY HYPOTHETICAL) marriage talk... kind of exhiliarating and kind of frightening.
2. I had cookies and cream ice cream.
3. ...I can't come up with a third thing. Really truly. I just can't today.

August 8, 2006

Music: Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 9

Good things that happened today:
1. I finally went to see the trainer about my knee and got some help for it, plus the promise of more.
2. I rewrote the introduction to my Bleak House paper (...I am saying nothing about how the rest of trying to edit that thing went, however... you can take a peek at my livejournal, fleurdiabolique.livejournal.com, if you really want to know)
3. I was given something more challenging than photocopying/scanning to do at my internship today.
4. I got my paycheck from the test prep company for which I work.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Tea.

August 7, 2006

Music: Evanescence Fallen
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
[I have decided to stop listing my current biggest stressor, as I feel like that is kind of counterproductive. I may switch to stress level instead... we'll see.]

Good things that happened today:
1. I did everything I wanted/needed to do except for editing my writing sample and emailing a professor, but I couldn't email the prof until I edited the writing sample, and I could've basically either done the writing sample or everything else, so it's all good.
2. I just won a game of iSketch.
3. Umm... I got more knitting done.



It's not like it's been a bad day or anything... it was just kind of bleh, and I'm tired...

August 6, 2006

Music: Evanescence Fallen
Reading: Dickens Bleak House
Biggest stressor at the moment: Was supposed to edit my writing sample for grad school apps today. Didn't because I didn't get enough stuff done yesterday.

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw Dogma. I'd seen the first half before but not the end. I was supposed to go back to the room and work and get to bed early, but when I walked into the lounge after a hall dessert outing I saw it playing and thought, "Well, I'll just stay for ten minutes." Ten minutes turned into the whole movie, and though I should've been doing other stuff, I'm really glad that I saw the movie instead. It was a lot of fun to watch.
2. Hall dessert outing. I had a brownie sundae which was freaking HUGE. The brownie itself was way too rich; when I ran out of ice cream I had to stop eating brownie because I just couldn't handle it. But it was chocolate, and chocolate makes everything wonderful. ;)
3. I went to bed very stressed and exhausted last night (I'm counting this as happening today because "last night" was technically early this morning), and when Jason came in and found out that I was upset there were wonderful cuddles. He would sometimes reach over and stroke my face in the tenderest way, and I don't know why that made/makes me melt and feel warm and amazed and lucky all at once but it did/does. I am continually in awe of how lucky I am to love this man and to have him love me back. Even when things are going to hell he can make life so much better just with a gesture or a word or a touch.


Other things to be happy about:
1. My lover is an amazing, amazing, amazing man. And he loves me. Yeah, I know I'm probably being disgustingly sappy (and somewhat repetitive) here, but when I start thinking about Jason and how unbelievably lucky I am to have him, I stay on that subject for quite a while. Probably a good thing -- it means I'm almost certain to go to bed with a smile on my face tonight.