On the Up

"Please understand I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter."

Andrea came by yesterday and we caught up on gossip=good

Allergies=bad

Learning that several of my friends who went to college and got straight into a serious relationship have four years later broken up=bad for them, and yet good for me in that it makes me feel like less of a freak to be single around them.

Calculating the distance between Midland and A)Sarnia, B) Battle Creek, C) Lansing as driveable=good.  The distance between Midland and D) Seattle, E) Denver=slightly less driveable, but one can dream.  I insist upon having friends (plural) again.

Going downtown in the morning to the Farmer’s Market with Mom, seeing Charley at the coffee shop=good

Job interview tomorrow=good (fingers crossed)

Swelling in my kitty’s injured face beginning to abate=good

Email out of the blue from Starbucks Will=really good

So far today, I win.

“Well, he talks like this, you don’t know what he’s after.

When he speaks like this, you don’t care what he’s after.”

–Leonard Cohen, *The Stranger Song*