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Ten good things.
Feb. 18th, 2002 04:44 pmIt's all too easy for my LJ to slide into an eternal litany of complaints and outrage and depressive maunderings. I don't know why bad moods and surliness seem so much more appropriate to share, but in recompense I offer (in no particular order) ten things that are currently brightening my life.
1. Baseball season fast approacheth. Full squads report to spring training this week. Opening Day is in forty days. Baseball is one of the things that makes me feel especially close to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel, in addition to its myriad of intrinsic virtues.
2. The days are noticeably longer. More daylight usually means more energy and a more positive mood, for me. It's also meant that we've gotten to see some spectacular sunsets on the drive home.
3. I have more projects and social plans right now than I have time to do them in. This has its frustrating aspects, but it also makes me feel good: energized, liked, busy, full of good ideas.
4. Tonight is English Country Dance night. I love being able to un-self-consciously lose myself in the music and the patterns, and I love having found a form of dancing that puts so little stress on my hip.
5. I started data collection today for our study of spirituality and health in HIV patients. I've been working on this study for more than a year, beginning with helping to develop the original idea and write the grant proposal, and on through endless efforts to get the project approved. Now it's really happening. That's so exciting.
6. Seventeen days to our Key Largo vacation.curiousangel and I and my oldest sister, Debbie, have rented a waterfront cottage, and we're going to spend an entire week swimming, lounging on the beach, kayaking on the Florida Bay, learning to snorkel, eating seafood, reading, and sleeping late.
7. I have achieved great results with a notoriously difficult patient. At last year's clinic, no one would have noticed. At my new clinic, people have gone out of their way to praise both me and the patient.
8. I'm developing highly enjoyable new friendships with Sam and withtherealjae.
9. I don't have to borrowcuriousangel's computer to play The Sims anymore. And it runs so fast on my new 1.1GHz processor. It's a whole new experience - and much more enjoyable. Whole vistas of pleasant obsession lie before me.
10. I feel more and more as though I'm managing to get my life set up in a way that I have chosen. Most of the things that are part of my life right now are there because I consciously chose them. I don't feel nearly as buffeted by uncontrollable forces as I used to feel. I think I'm getting closer to living a conscious life.
1. Baseball season fast approacheth. Full squads report to spring training this week. Opening Day is in forty days. Baseball is one of the things that makes me feel especially close to
curiousangel, in addition to its myriad of intrinsic virtues.2. The days are noticeably longer. More daylight usually means more energy and a more positive mood, for me. It's also meant that we've gotten to see some spectacular sunsets on the drive home.
3. I have more projects and social plans right now than I have time to do them in. This has its frustrating aspects, but it also makes me feel good: energized, liked, busy, full of good ideas.
4. Tonight is English Country Dance night. I love being able to un-self-consciously lose myself in the music and the patterns, and I love having found a form of dancing that puts so little stress on my hip.
5. I started data collection today for our study of spirituality and health in HIV patients. I've been working on this study for more than a year, beginning with helping to develop the original idea and write the grant proposal, and on through endless efforts to get the project approved. Now it's really happening. That's so exciting.
6. Seventeen days to our Key Largo vacation.
curiousangel and I and my oldest sister, Debbie, have rented a waterfront cottage, and we're going to spend an entire week swimming, lounging on the beach, kayaking on the Florida Bay, learning to snorkel, eating seafood, reading, and sleeping late.7. I have achieved great results with a notoriously difficult patient. At last year's clinic, no one would have noticed. At my new clinic, people have gone out of their way to praise both me and the patient.
8. I'm developing highly enjoyable new friendships with Sam and with
therealjae.9. I don't have to borrow
curiousangel's computer to play The Sims anymore. And it runs so fast on my new 1.1GHz processor. It's a whole new experience - and much more enjoyable. Whole vistas of pleasant obsession lie before me.10. I feel more and more as though I'm managing to get my life set up in a way that I have chosen. Most of the things that are part of my life right now are there because I consciously chose them. I don't feel nearly as buffeted by uncontrollable forces as I used to feel. I think I'm getting closer to living a conscious life.
