You know what's cool?

Having your column mentioned on the blog of a former Madison mayor.

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2007/03/the_daily_cardi.html

I FEEL GOOD!!!!!!!

I think I'm just not very good at thinking things through. That is to say, I'm good at it when I do it, but getting myself to do it is difficult. It generally just feels BETTER to act on impulse, go for emotional rather than rational reaction, and make it instantaneous. Thinking things through may be wise on one level (or many, admittedly), but ( Read more... )

So yeah, I was steeling myself for hate mail this week and instead I've gotten two bona-fide fan letters! Whoa! Total strangers liked my column enough to write in and tell me about it!

"I feel good, nanananananana..."

Woohoo! Forget stress, forget homework. I feel GOOD!!!

I really like my Medieval Spanish Lit teacher. In one day, he whacks me over the head with the homework assignment he returned, telling me that I had been "pulling his hair" (meaning pulling his leg, which I had been), hides under his jacket, insists that he is "buen amor," makes faces at the class, and then makes a least 3 references to South ( Read more... )

I got a letter today offering me Phi Beta Kappa membership. It feels good! Yeah, it's a silly honor society thing, but it's the most well-known one and they're very selective. I think it'll be a real help in terms of getting jobs! It also helps me relax further about grades. A very high GPA with Phi Beta Kappa recognition will basically be as ( Read more... )

She Says ( Read more... )

I am reminded how lucky I am at present. Things are pretty darn simple for me right now, looked at in the right way. I know how I feel about things, I generally know what to do about them, and my default setting is Happy. I have discovered that for many people, their default is something else entirely. It intrigues me. Why do some people ( Read more... )

"I ought to say no, no, no, sir - Mind if I move a little closer ( Read more... )

Time is moving oddly for me. In some ways I feel like I am spiraling, but I don't know if it's up or down. Maybe it's sideways. Maybe it's in the same exact place. Spinning and spinning and spinning... no dish of mold for me, just the utter truth of my own mortality. Vampires and dragonflies. Cabbages and kings. And away, away she goes.

Wow, even though I have fallen behind on homework and suchlike and will thus stay tired and overly busy for the next few days, I am quite relaxed and happy. And cold, actually, but for once it isn't making me horribly irritable. I wonder if one ever grows out of wanting to make their parents proud ( Read more... )