Good times!

[rms10]

Things here are going quite well, despite all the residual stress:

1. There is a most excellent thunderstorm outside right now! And it's not high winds or anything -- just lots of great thunder and lightning -- so I don't feel too guilty about enjoying it.
   
   
2. I had an excellent weekend in Florida, visiting a good friend and her husband and their three-month-old daughter. My honorary niece is very cute! Also, I saw alligators.
   
   
3. There have been two official viewings of the house! Not even counting the open house!
   
   
4. Work is going fairly well -- I should have more data soon, and I'm also outlining a paper that will be Chapter Three of my thesis.
   
   
5. I'm reading The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, and I'm really enjoying it. I was warned that it was depressing, but after reading Sweetness in the Belly, by Camilla Gibb (which is also excellent), I have a pretty high tolerance for depressing books.
   
   
6. My brother loved his birthday present! (I got him the three Pirates! In an Adventure with ________ books, plus the Communist Party t-shirt.
   
   
7. I ordered the haiku t-shirt for myself, because it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
   

So things are pretty good! And I'm going to Santa Barbara this weekend, and I'm annoyed that the weather won't be any better than it will be in Ann Arbor.