A few reasons why I am in Smile Overdrive today:

-- the view from my desk is bea-U-tiful.

The mountains in the distance are covered in snow, which makes the sun bounce off it ever so brightly. The sky is a shiny baby blue and dotted with only a few fluffy clouds. The only downside to this view is the damn buildings across the street that cut my view of the mountains in half. And the dirty window I'm looking out of. But it's still pretty cool to look at.


-- its not raining cats and dogs and horses and llamas and elephants and overweight gorillas

it was raining yesterday so I didn't have the chance to do some much needed laundry. I could have done laundry if my life depended on it, but I would have had to cross the parking lot of my apartment to get to the little laundry room. And it was pouring yesterday. So I opted for staying dry by staying indoors.

But it isn't raining today. That means I can do laundry when I get home and won't have to 'go commando' at work tomorrow.


-- 'Productivity Enhancing' activities

such as reading comments about Johnny Depp's hotness and his ding dong


-- I got back comments on my first writing assignment today.

I got the email early in the morning, and it's made me smile-y all day. The instructor mentioned three things I did well (!) and then listed three 'technical' things I need to work on next time. The first two I noticed while I was editing, but was too caught up in the piece's other problems that I passed over them. I'll have to make sure to go with my first thought of 'eh, that's probably not right' instead of 'well, I can't think of any other way to say it.' The third thing he mentioned I totally didn't pick up on during the many obsessive rereads I did. Oops. But at the end of the email he said the assignment I turned in had "some very good writing."

::does snoopy happy dance::

Which just goes to show that I have no sense whether something I write is good or not. Because I really didn't think what I wrote was all that good. Maybe he's just being nice. Then again, maybe not. Either way, it's just the first assignment. I've still got five more weeks left of writing assignments. Wheeee!