happy

1. Found groceries from Wim on my porch this morning! Aww! Too bad I was drugged up and sleeping when he came by.

2. Adorable tiny queers walking on the trail! The plaid one was so clearly enthralled by the bleached-forelock one! Neither of them was over 5'nothing! omg omg omg.

3. Good news on multiple personal fronts.

4. Really fun interaction at the department office for t-shirt day.

Me: I am wearing a t-shirt!
K: you are. and you're showing it to me!
Me: can I have a treat?
K: you can have a treat.
Me: I've never done this before.
K: really? do you require guidance?
Me: yes. I waited until I had graduated TWICE to participate in biology t-shirt day.

5. The sunset was so great that I backtracked and gained elevation to look at it better. Then M-pig joined me. Then a new undergrad from northern China came panting up with her camera to photograph it, and we advised her on what to expect from Seattle weather.

happy mostly

1. Uh, other people get kind of turned on by thunderstorms, right? Luckily at 8am I was already in my bunk, and I am again now!

2. I feel so damn graceful and competent after a good morning walk.

3. Japanese fashion exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum was unfortunately full of too many people and some event-type crap tonight, which I was not feeling, but wow, those clothes. Wim encouraged me to annotate certain placards which were completely inadequate, though I resisted: holding forth about them to him was sufficient. (That dress was a deconstructed-menswear-and-rising-sun-motif CRANE, okay, and that one was clearly made of quilt batting.)

4. Soon my pre-trip stressing will be over in one way or another.