Kudos to stacer on the date!
I'm in a super good mood for lots of reasons. But here are the best ones:
1) I'm back in Boston after a fun, yet oft grueling, road trip from UT with my little bro. Ah, the stories . . .
2) I persuaded a prof to over-enroll me in his Book Production and Design class--the class I REALLY, REALLY wanted. The class my advisor assured me that I shouldn't bother trying to get in because "For various reasons, this isn't a course where overenrollment is likely. But not to worry: as a first-year student, you'll have other chances to take the course because it's offered every year."
Pfft! Forget that. I mean, I don't want to take just one class because that's all I can get into. I want to get my degree before I'm old and gray, after all. Besides, I'm paying $3,008 for a class, so you betta believe that I'm gonna do all I can to get what I want. Sheesh, they really need to add more sections. It's absurd. They keep admitting more people to the program w/o increasing the # of sections offered.
*Ahem...*
3) For Christmas, my friend in CA got me an autographed picture of, get this, Serenity's dashing capt. Malcolm Reynolds at a Firefly con!
So thoughtful of him to get that. Of course, my friend's a big Firefly fan himself, so the con was more than your average shopping trip. Nothing wrong w/ that, of course.
Anyway, what's really neat is that he had Nathan Fillion write a special inscription:
"Sarah, Keep Flyin'. Keep writing."
*sigh* Now -that's- pretty cool.
<Sorry for the, uh, longish post. Couldn't help myself.>