At least for a brief moment today I was able to forget the horror of Tuesday and focus on a few good things:
[ul][li]It’s a nice day. Bright, beautiful blue skies, a few fluffy clouds for contrast, probably high 70’s (F, for our Canadian friends), light breeze, a beautiful day for a nice walk at lunchtime (which I did). Now, granted, this describes virtually every day in southern California virtually year-round, but it was a refreshing reminder of one of the many reasons I moved to San Diego.[/li][li]Finances, as many of you have read, have been sub-optimal for me for the past few months (although my anonymous Doper benefactor’s contribution helped immensely, and their generosity is another reason to be happy). But I started working at a long-term temp assignment last week at the University of California San Diego Medical, and they love me and I love them (and there is strong potential for it leading into a permanent job, if not in this department then elsewhere in UCSD, which would fulfill a goal I had when I moved here, and that was to try to get a job in academia for a change). In two weeks I will be flush enough to get current with all my bills (it’s smugly self-gratifying to call my creditors and tell them when they can expect payment) and still be able to have some left over, which leads me to…[/li][li]My birthday is in a few weeks, and I’m looking forward to spending it at Disneyland - Gay Day on Saturday in the park and on Sunday in California Adventure, and Monday having lunch with some of my best friends at Club 33 (for those who know, it’s quite a feat getting reservations there).[/li][li]In even less time I will be seeing a good friend from San Jose at the Greater San Diego Gay Rodeo, which is great because he says the SD rodeo is the best rodeo in the world (and he’s been to just about all of them worldwide) and has been bugging me for years to attend (it used to almost always conflict with the Washington, DC rodeo every year, which I almost always went to instead as it was just about a two hour drive from Philadelphia).[/li][li]A few weeks after my birthday, there will be Dopetoberfest in Los Angeles. Now how could that not make one happy? :D[/li][li]I think I am going to be successful in talking my housemate out of moving upstate to get back together again with her loser ex-boyfriend, and instead stay here and start a real relationship with her pseudo-boyfriend who I and my two other housemates just love. We all see they’re perfect for each other, and I think I’m getting that through to her.[/li][li]I realize over and over that not only was moving to San Diego the best thing I could have done for myself, but my housemates are the best friends I could ask for. They’re even registered (or are going to) here![/li][li]I found a new kind of M&M today. :)[/ul][/li]
So, all in all, things are looking up for me, I feel good, and dammit, it’s a nice day. 
Esprix
My nice day just went bad. 