it's just that I'm in such a good mood today, and that I feel like my old self again, maybe for the first time since I came out west. maybe it's the snow; maybe it's that I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel (of seemingly endless work); maybe it's my upcoming vacations. I don't know. but I do know that I'm positively giddy, and I want to share it with the whole wide world.

I realized today, pondering said giddiness, that I might be a girl who needs winter. I mean, not just manage winter or survive winter or put up with winter or even kinda like winter - I think I might need it for my general well-being and happiness. and I'm actually okay with this. if only because it seems like such a funny thing for a southern girl to need to get by.

a very attractive european woman just approached me as I was filching some free donuts. she leaned over the table, intimately, very close to my face. for a moment I thought she was going to try to kiss me. she glanced around her and then whispered conspiratorially, "I've been eating chocolate. do I have chocolate in my teeth?" bearing all but her molars to me. I told her she was fine and then she burst into hysterical laughter, buckling over. I took my chocolate sprinkle donut back into my office, closed the door, and burst into my own hysterical laughter, buckling over.

I love strangers.

climb mt. fuji oh snail, but slowly, slowly.