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.

Friday, May 04, 2007

Hiatus.

My dog died today.

It's not like there aren't still good things happening that I could talk about -- the world does go on, after all -- but I don't feel like I can do this for a while anyway. I'll be back in a week or two, probably.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

May 3, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: Sidney Defense of Poetry/Apology for Poetry
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Cuddles!
2. Gave my bibliography presentation. One less thing to worry about...
3. Picked a paper topic.
4. Writing group! Got helpful feedback on something I'm going to submit to a competition.

May 2, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: Puttenham Arte of Poesie, Spenser Sheaphearde's Calender
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. FINISHED THE PUTTENHAM OMG HOW THE FUCK CAN HE WRITE FOR SO LONG? Longwinded irritating bastard.
3. Met with last quarter's writing teacher about my portfolio and got a lot of helpful feedback (as well as positive responses, yay!).

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

May 1, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: newspaper, Puttenham Arte of Poesie
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. English department lunch! It was nice. And I got a t-shirt!
2. Got more condoms! Yay for safe sex! ;)
3. Chorus.
4. Hung out in the library for a while to do work.
5. Ice cream for dessert.

Monday, April 30, 2007

April 30, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: various by Chesnutt, newspaper, a story by someone in my writing group
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Woke up next to Jason.
2. Played botgames on RinkWorks!
3. Checked off everything on my To Do list!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

April 29, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: the Bible, various for my bibliography
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Finished preliminary research on MLIS programs!
2. Went to brunch with Jason, his mom, two of his uncles, and his cousin.
3. Saw lots of Jason!
4. Wore my happy funky skirt and earrings.
5. Basically got my bibliography done... assuming that my teacher doesn't think I missed someone important...

April 28, 2007

Music: Savage Garden Savage Garden
Reading: the Bible, various American legends by Pryer and Skinner
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Was moderately productive.
2. Chocolate ice cream sundae!
3. X-Files!
4. Made plans to go to brunch with Jason and some of his family tomorrow.