Staying Positive

Things that have gone right lately. My attempt to be a more optimistic person.

I will post every day, at the end of the day (or the next morning), about the good things that have happened to me in that day. The hope is that I will begin to be generally happier and more positive, rather than focusing on the negative as I tend to do.

 

If you would like to join me, e-mail me or leave a comment on one of my posts and we can talk about adding you as a poster here. I think that it would be really cool if this were to become a multi-person endeavor, if others are interested in helping to make it one.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

January 13, 2007

Music: Taliesin Orchestra Orinoco Flow: The Music of Enya
Reading: Plato Republic, Olds "The Race"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Bought a DivaCup. We'll see how it works...
2. Lots of boyfriend!
3. X-Files.
4. Got a bunch of stuff done.

Friday, January 12, 2007

January 12, 2006

Music: RENT soundtrack
Reading: none
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Went back to work! And was productive, too.
2. Lunch, dinner, movie night, and hawt sex with teh boyfriend.
3. Dark chocolate. Yummm...

Thursday, January 11, 2007

January 11, 2007

Music: RENT soundtrack
Reading: Wallace "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," Olds "The Race," Gluck "Hawk's Shadow," newspaper
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Fencing was really frustrating, but I think ultimately a good practice.
2. I like and respect my new co-captain.
3. Lunch with Jason.
4. Music in the dorm after dinner -- a famous chamber group playing a piece by my RF. It was kind of avant-garde, so not quite up my alley, but I still liked it well enough.
5. Got some knitting done.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

January 10, 2007

Music: RENT soundtrack
Reading: Plato Ion, newspaper
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Fencing practice went decently, considering that it was at a godawful hour of the morning and I didn't get enough sleep last night.
2. Napped.
3. Saw lots of Jason. Hung out, had lunch, had sex, had dinner, read comics...
4. Fiction class I'm in this quarter looks hard but good.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

January 9, 2007

Music: RENT soundtrack
Reading: intro to Critical Theory Since Plato, Nietzsche On the Geneaology of Morals
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Took a nap after fencing practice.
2. My literary theory class looks like it will be decent.
3. Lunch with Jason.
4. My fencing stuff got fixed!

Monday, January 08, 2007

January 8, 2007

Music: Jason's
Reading: none
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Slept in.
2. Nice lunch in town with Jason.
3. Spent most of the day with Jason.
4. Dickens reading group!
5. Got some knitting done.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

January 7, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art, and Commerce, Jason's music
Reading: Nietzsche On the Geneaology of Morals, Dickens Our Mutual Friend
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 1.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw Jason again!
2. Hot sex! (Refer to #1. ;) )
3. Small children on the plane flight home did not make tons of noise.
4. Low-stress, relatively easy travel.
5. Wound a hank of yarn into a ball WITHOUT tangling it this time (without help and on a plane!).
6. Cast off my swatch for my next project.
7. Got a card from John and Wanja.
8. Patriots won!