Henri Bowane - Cheri Natou

Remarkably, the high spirits I described yesterday have persisted through an entire day of work.  I was feeling good when my morning began, and made a special happy playlist for my walk (the first track of which you can hear here).  And it was warm(ish) out, which combined with the awesome playlist, made for a particularly pleasant commute.

I also discovered a new predictor of my daily happiness.  Because of the timing of the lights, I usually get to 14th street right as the walk signal is expiring.  Because people who run across streets are exceptionally foolish, I wait the forty five seconds it takes for the next walk signal.  But every once in a while, I get to 14th street in time to cross it.  Whether or not that happens is my new predictor of daily happiness.  It can mean two things: the cars or lights or whathaveyou have aligned in such a way to allow me to make it at my regular walking speed, suggesting the universe is doing me a solid, in which case it could be a good day.  Or, I am walking with extra drive or lightness or whatever, and I get from the circle to 14th faster than usual, in which case it could be a good day.

Other thing to be happy about: the office has once again because keeping root beer in the fridge, after nearly a year hiatus (during when I was forced to subsist only on complimentary ginger ale.  To celebrate this string of cosmic goodness directed my way, I cracked open a can of root beer at 8:55 am.  Turns out, this is actually too early to drink a root beer, but it was still a fun thing to do.