Because I’m really not a big, swirling mass of gloom!

1. The fact that the pasta salad I had yesterday tasted pretty darn good.

2. The fact that the radio DID have one great song on this morning when I pulled into the parking lot: “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy. Nothing but good times when I hear that baby.

3. The fact that I have a big window in my office, and it’s open because the day is beautiful.

4. The fact that right now, the messiness in my office (and the pasta salad smell) is kind of reminding me of my grade-seven locker, and Fridays were “locker clean out days” back in junior high, so I’m declaring tomorrow just such a Friday and will clean my office until it looks like one of those awesome offices that you see on TV shows like Cashmere Mafia, with fresh flowers and big glossy piles of art proofs and bamboo plants and sweet office chairs and Blackberries and stuff. Although it won’t be like that at all. But it’s something to aim for!

5. The fact that some people don’t take things too seriously. Like Stuff White People Like .

6. The fact that it’s warm enough to wear sandals, and the ones I’m wearing ROCK!

7. The fact that my car started this morning. And that I can afford groceries, if not tons of savings.

8. The fact that gas prices are forcing me to consider being more environmentally correct and not driving somewhere every thirty seconds.

9. The fact that there are environmental legal teams!! And it would be so cool to be on one!

10. The fact that a girl like me could use a deadline to get her ass in serious studying mode.

11. The fact that whenever I want to, I can remember a “you had to be there” moment to myself and it will make me LAUGH OUT LOUD. Like Caitlin’s insisting that “Alien! Ali-eeeeeeeeennnnnn!” was a real song she’d really heard. And she would sing that one line over and over to everyone she knew to try and find someone who recognized it. Oh. Funny. You had to be there. You should have!