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, April 21, 2007

April 20, 2007

Music: Incubus Morning View, Jason's
Reading: Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 2.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Fun X-Files episodes!
2. Cuddles!
3. Got stuff done at work.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Puppy count: ONE!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

April 19, 2007

Music: Incubus Morning View
Reading: Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables, various for Sidney bibliography
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. The due date of my bibliography got pushed back a week! WHEW!
2. I made a comment in my hard grad class today and the professor got really into it. I felt smart!
3. Sex!
4. Dinner with Jason.
5. Knitted a bit at writing group!

April 18, 2007

Music: Incubus Morning View
Reading: Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables, various articles/books relating to Sidney's Defense of Poetry
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw Jason.
2. Attended a vigil at my school for the Virginia Tech victims. I think it really helped me to settle and start to heal a bit.
3. Went to a showing of a silent French film version of "The Fall of the House of Usher." It was pretty interesting.
4. Tennis was fun.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

April 17, 2007

Music: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Reading: various by Wyatt and by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; various articles/books (skimmed) for my bibliography
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw Jason.
2. Got a fair amount of stuff done.
3. Got an e-mail from Kayo!

April 16, 2007

Music: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Reading: Brown Wieland, some Wyatt, 400 bazillion article abstracts/citations
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Woke up next to Jason.
2. Finished preliminary research for my bibliography for my 16th-century poetry class; now I just need to go find/read all of the citations I chose, to pick what should actually go on the bibliography...
3. Mom and Dad sent me sugar eggs!

Sunday, April 15, 2007

April 15, 2007

Music: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Reading: Skelton "Phyllyp Sparowe," "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Sort of figured out housing for the summer.
2. GOT MY CREDIT CARD! WOOOOOOO
3. Cuddles!
4. Ate cotton candy.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Puppy count: ZOMGZ PUPPIES EVERYWHERE AT COMMUNITY DAY!

April 14, 2007

Music: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Reading: the Bible (Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua)
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5

Good things that happened today:
1. Ice cream with Jason after dinner, and a nice walk.
2. Finished my reading for Tuesday.
3. Got a blog going for a writing group of which I am part! (Not on this account, so don't bother going looking for it.)