Happy things:

1. Found this new online magazine that purports to be a zine for the post-college pre-parenthood quasi-adult market, and I quite like it so far. In fact, I like it enough that I'm stealing their recipe for chocolate truffles and making them with Chris tomorrow night. I think the most over-used step might be Step 4: "Taste frequently. This doesn't actually do anything to the chocolate. But when the smell of melted chocolate starts to permeate your kitchen, just try to resist." Just a hunch. :)

2. I wrote my midterm for Language, Power, and Persuasion today and I was a tiny bit worried about it because I had spent more time yesterday being on dates (with my girlfriend AND my boyfriend) than actually studying. In fact, I pretty much just skimmed the last few articles. However, when I was sitting near the lecture hall doing some last-minute reviewing, I could hear other girls cramming desperately and asking stupid questions like "what's transitivity again? what's a pseudo-agent?" and they were such basic obvious we've-gone-over-this-a-million-times questions that I was pretty sure I was set. At least, compared to them. And I was! The midterm was reasonable in asking lots of stuff from different material, but nothing surprised me and I didn't hesitate on anything. So that should be a good mark. :) (And I was the 2nd one done which, in a class of about 300, is not too shabby!)

3. I got my Discourse Analysis paper back tonight, the one in which I had to elicit a narrative (I got a story from Kathy about a Russian man who was a little, shall we say, bold), transcribe it, and analyse it with Critical Discourse Analysis. Annnnnnnd...... I got an A+! Yeah!