Today, I am happy again. It seems like I am happy a lot lately, which is a new thing for me. I don’t remember being happy for several days in succession very often. Life isn’t perfect but still, I was happy today. I was happy yesterday. I was happy Friday and Saturday too. I hope this keeps up!

I like my workshopping class.
I like my friends.
I like the play I’m writing. It’s exactly the sort of thing I want to be writing. Not to say that it’s perfect – it’s not. It still has a long way to go. But all the feedback I’ve gotten shows me that it is at least the sort of thing I want to be working on. It is the kind of story that I want to be telling.

I like that I’m going to Bootcamp tonight, I like that it’s harder than last year. I like the Cardio Combat class I’m doing on Thursdays. I like my new gym. I like Llewelyn.

I like most of my classes. I like guitar. I like my body.

Life is good.

Today I am deeply, almost unbearably happy.

So it goes:

- Yesterday, I had lunch with Mikiko, spent time with her and her roommates.
- Went for dinner with Steph Shannon
- Steph S. and I then went over to Sean & Monty’s (Seanty’s) to hang out with them, Owen and Simon.
- We played tag outside under the full moon
- Then grounder’s tag on the playground
- Went inside, sleepy and happy in the wee hours of the morning.
- I slept over at their place (this time it was Monty’s turn to be the gallant one, who traded his bed for the couch on my behalf).
- Sean, Monty and I made pancakes this morning, but they didn’t turn out well.
- Went up Mt. Doug, played on the rocks, in the forest for a while. We saw a view of the city, climbed trees, lay on our backs under warm sun.
- Stopped at a road-side organic food booth (honour system), bought tomatoes (sweet, juicy, tiny and perfect), and apples (crisp, sweet, juicy)
- Gathered groceries to make dinner.
- Sean made soup, I made Salmon from memory. It was perfect. Sean’s words when he tried his first bite “Are you serious? Are you Serious!?” He and Monty agreed not to eat any fish that wasn’t Christina’s Salmon. I died happy (I got to eat amazing fish. I made amazing fish. I shared amazing fish.)
- We ate contentedly
- We napped.

I cannot contain the deepest sense of pleasure at having had such a healthy, clean, easy-going day. I cannot contain my happiness of having made something people enjoyed so much. I’m glowing.

LOVE!

Life is good.

My dad left my mom on September 1st this year. He’d waited until I’d moved out, made arrangements to get the keys to a new apartment, and then, on Tuesday called my mom and said “I’m not coming home tonight.” They were supposed to go golfing, but that was over-shadowed by him moving out.

It’s interesting to me, because aside from the first of the month being a typical day to start paying rent, my dad and I had also had a conversation recently about September. We both felt that September, and not January, was a much more appropriate “start of the year” month. School starts in September, first of all. Secondly, it seems that everyone always waits the whole year for summer to come – it’s the last thing, the time when people relax. September is the end of all that. It’s when people start getting down to business again. My birthday is in September, so I guess I’m biased. My dad’s birthday is in October, and I guess he thinks that’s close enough to be a little biased too.

So, I can’t help but notice that my dad chose to leave my mom on the first day of the “new year.” Was this his New Year’s resolution?

HOME!

I panicked, so I signed up for everything.

Curse you TWF!

 

Rash, The Battletoad. I made him out of modeling clay.

A scarf that I am knitting (my first knitting project!)

Multi-coloured yarn!

I’ve applied to volunteer for a few gardening jobs, and for an Art museum. Fingers crossed for the gardening though!

http://www.jenwang.net/

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

Listening to (Music):
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem

Practicing:
Blackbird – The Beatles
Mr. Tambourine Man – Bob Dylan
You’re So Bad – Tom Petty

Listening to (Audiobooks):
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
Just finished: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

Possible Class schedule:
Drama Workshop (Full Year)

Poetry 307: Basic Forms and Techniques (Half Year)
Linguistics 100B (Half Year)
Greek and Roman Mythology (Half Year)

Structure in Stage Drama (Half Year)
Narrative and Mythic Structure in Film Writing (Half Year)
Writing Systems of the World (Half Year)

Other choices:
Anthropology 200: Cultural and Social Anthropology (Half Year)
Anthropology 306: Folklore and Mythology (Half Year)
French 103: Basic Communication (Half Year)
GRS 250: The Contribution of Greek and Latin to the English Language (Half Year)
Music 111: The Elementary Materials of Music (Half Year)
Phil 238: Philosophy in Literature (Half Year)
History 245: The Second World War (Half Year)