Everything is Illuminable

Today is a good day. It turns out if you wrap it all up in a ball and hurl it out there then many good things will come of it.

1. Strangers will write to you and you will feel better.

2. Someone will call you interested in buying your car even though there hasn't been an ad in the paper for WEEKS and the car's just been sitting there on the curb with the "For Sale" sign on it and the tags expiring.

3. You will be able to admit to the correspondence coordinators that you are maybe a little depressed they will say We Thought It Might Be Something Like That and they will not try to make you feel bad and they will furthermore offer to take away all your grading.

4. Which will be financially feasible because your boyfriend will pick up a second class at his fancy Almost Graduated salary which means he will finally be making more money than you and it will be enough to buy all the groceries if necessary though hopefully it won't be.

5. Your dog, who has been sick with a wound and has been to the vet, will be feeling better and she will finally eat her dinner, though only if your boyfriend throws it to her kibble by kibble, which he will do, which will amuse you highly.

6. All your students will turn in their final projects. On time.

7. You will get a picture in the mail, with a Christmas card, from your boyfriend's sister. And it will be a picture of you and your boyfriend on the day of the sister's wedding, the day that ended with you drunkenly passing out and then becoming a Buddhist (a hungover Buddhist). Only in this picture, you and your boyfriend will both look TOTALLY BEAUTIFUL. It will be years since you saw a picture of yourself this good.

You will be wearing a pink strapless dress, with butterflies. In the picture you will appear to have cleavage.

8. In the same card you will find (from the same occasion) another picture of yourself, in which you appear to be smoking a cigarette. Which is funny. Because you're pretty sure you don't smoke.

9. Also, yesterday it will have snowed.

10. And melted.


But I am going to post the post I wrote last night anyway. It's good backstory.