Ten Good Things that Have Happened (or Will Happen) to Me This Week, Whether I Deserved Them or Not, in No Particular Order

1. I have been offered the job I interviewed for last week. This is a good thing because it means that next quarter my tuition will be paid, my family will be insured, and I will have more than enough money to pay the rent.
2. I have been informed that, even though both jobs are for departments of the same greater institution, I will be able to keep my current job at the library while I have the other job. This is good because it means I will continue to gain valuable experience in an academic library, I will make a little more money, and I will still have a job come spring when the temporary admissions application reading position ends.
3. I have been invited to interview for a student librarian job with Seattle Public Library. This is good because it would pay well and would ensure that I can pay the rent through the rest of my graduate education, pretty much. Except I'm not sure I want three jobs next quarter.
4. Yesterday FoxyJ had a good day. I count this as a good thing that happened to me not, he says self-consciously, because I count my wife as an extension of me or as my property or any such nonsense, but because I feel happy when I see her happy.
5. Tolkien Boy went to the gym with me yesterday. The fact that this is a frequent occurrence does not make it any less good. And I had a particularly good time yesterday.
6. Melyngoch, as you know, wrote me a nice email yesterday. This is good because I was having a very crappy morning that literally turned around the moment I read this email.
   
7. This morning I got another, somewhat similar (though not quite so passionate), nice email from a "periodic lurker" of my blog. This is good because I like people who like me.
   
8. Tomorrow FoxyJ is throwing me a birthday party. This is good because I like FoxyJ, and I like my friends.
   
9. When I entered class yesterday wearing my Superman t-shirt under my unbuttoned dress shirt, as I have done for the last five Halloweens, a friend of mine hummed the theme song from Superman. This is good because I like attention.
   
10. According to FoxyJ's aunt, Fox 13 is showing blurbs with footage of me and S-Boogie carving our pumpkin. Apparently the pumpkin-carving special will be on this Sunday's Fox 13 News at Nine. This is good because I like publicity and I am indiscriminate as to how I get it.