off the top of my head

stuff i like right now, and i use the term like very loosely here. just a random list of good things.

1) a meeting that ends earlier than expected/scheduled

2) nice weather, perfect for wearing my burgundy leather sandals (with the white stitching & the grommets) bought on sale at linea italia ages ago & which still look good even after years of walking/running to class

3) sipping a free can of coke lite on a hot day, looking out at trees, long shadows on grass, sunlight on bright green leaves

4) the purple butterfly cathy gave me that night we had dinner at bellini's and all the good thoughts it carries on its little yellow poster painted polka dotted wire-and-stocking wings

5) seeing a note from richelle and a banana-flavored fortune cookie from 6-yr-old nikita tacked on my office door first thing in the morning after 2 days of migraine, vomiting and awful awful menstrual cramps. the fortune: "Calm yourself in the face of adversity. You will prevail in due time."

6) knowing that i am blessed with a family and many many friends who love me & that i can count on Him who knows & loves me the most

7) a good workshop session in a CW class (everyone had useful constructive comments and suggestions to make) despite having the usual wanker reprobates showing up an hour late

8) that weird electric blue sheen on the surface of this water bottle that came free with my laptop backback

9) orange Stabilo highlighters

10) a bubble wand thingy that i got from my cousin's wedding last month (actually, i swiped four of those from the giveaway baskets they were passing around)

11) finding old treasure that's been in front of me all these months! wrote a CNF piece a while back about spending Christmas behind bars when i was fourteen or fifteen. i had included a detail about a balsa wood bookmark made by a man who is most likely still in prison right now. he could even be dead. found the thing in a black mug on my desk together with a slew of other bookmarks. crucial details in the narrative can be found on the back: my catholic high school had us visit lifers in prison on feb 2nd 1993, the man i wrote about signed his name as "NO2Y SALLE" and the note scrawled in that depressing hall at the new bilibid prison in muntinlupa goes: "PARA SA'YO KA BOBBY ROLDAN, / ISANG MUNTING ALA-ALA MULA SA ISANG KASAMA. / MABUHAY KA!"

12) nasty blogger bugs that make you lose forever certain parts of your post that you *know* you are better off not posting. i refer to the icky gushfest about a certain cute boy i had spent quite a few minutes writing and which just magically disappeared when i tried to publish this post five minutes ago. thank goodness for faulty technology!