Last cigarettes are all you can get turning your orbit around.

I am in a good mood. Fck not saying it for fear of jinxing it. I mean, of course it will pass, so I am going to enjoy it while its here. I didn’t even realize I was in a good mood until I noticed that this morning, everyone and their mother was saying hello and smiling at me and chatting it up, and I realized, oh, I was doing it first, they were bouncing off of me. So I concluded that I’m in a good mood. Of course, now I’m drinking a soda so I’ll probably crash soon. I think I need to go on one of those no refined sugar/flour diets because it would probably solve a lot of minor physical problems I have, including those linked to moods. I think I’ll try the all-bacon diet and see if that works. Ok, maybe the all- bacon and spinach and bananas and avocado and fried chicken and cheese diet. I’ll have to start frying my chicken in whole grain flour and flax.

Every day of this temp gig, I have to go to the security desk to check-in, and today this woman was working who isn’t there very often in the mornings and she looked at my driver’s license and started to chat me up about the neighborhood because she used to live 2 blocks away and her daughter still goes to the daycare center near us. “Huge city, small world,” I said. Then she put me in the computer system for the whole week, so I wouldn’t have to spend so much time at check-in every day. I think that’s partly what induced the good mood. Often I like to stay in my own zone and not interact with anyone of the thousands of people I brush against in the world. Sometimes positive interactions with strangers just make my life.

Also, I have a writing date tonight and I know what I’m going to work on which is also what I’m going to submit to the first workshop meeting of Writing Group Redux. This is all a Good Thing.

from cedarseed

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
-Ambrose Bierce