i had a number of candidates for what i should be happy about today, not the least of which was the guy that i saw waiting for a northbound red line train at harrison after i got back, because he had the absolute best obviously-fake auburn haircolor i’ve ever seen — it was this perfect coppery bronze shade. i didn’t even look at the guy, i just liked the haircolor.

but, auburn hair guy lost out in the end to antp’s phrase: “bring your plague to work” day. the funny bit is that i don’t even think she read my rant before going off on her own.

also, tonight’s extracurricular activity was a workshop at early2bed on “how to flirt, for nerds,” which was kind of fun. as an exercise, we were paired up with a random person in the room, then one person in the pair was given a specific target flirt level (“mildly uncomfortable, please go away,” “strictly platonic flirty,” “mildly flirty,” and “outright wants you-flirty”), and their partner had to guess at the end of several minutes’ flirting what their target flirt level was. so i got to flirt “mildly flirty” with a cute girl from across the room, and she totally guessed right that i was being mildly flirty, so maybe there is hope for me after all! also, it’s just hard to be unhappy about getting to flirt with a cute person who was actually pretty cool, even if it was a silly engineered social situation.

okay, two things to be happy about today. just be glad i didn’t start listing out all the other things i was happy about in general, like how the clouds started to break up while i was on the bus going home from work, and you could see bits of pink and blue sunset sky, or how my new green coat fits me well enough that when i caught a glimpse of myself in the glass window of an el door i could actually kind of see being lighter weight, like maybe it is possible after all, or how i really like autumn and cooler weather and the pretty leaves on the ground, and and and…