My life is so excellent!
1. Dates! I’m dating a local! There are cuddles, and recently there were smooches, and things are wonderful! She’s ridiculously intelligent (what are you talking about, I don’t have a type in the slightest), a fellow economist-in-training, and a generally cuddly and lovely person. Some things are tricky (we have different conversational styles, so I have to pay attention to that), but there’s lots of communication and things are good!
2. I’m going to Readercon! Sample panel: “Problematizing Taxonomizing: Maybe the Most Readercon Panel Ever. John Benson, John Clute, Samuel R. Delany, Kathryn Morrow (leader), T. X. Watson. Countless Readercon panels have been devoted to questions of taxonomy, so let’s ask the next questions about taxonomy itself. What is the importance of categories? What is the language of categorization? It is important to define terms, but when do the terms themselves become an obfuscation rather than a clarification? How do taxonomies, and perhaps even the notion of taxonomy, perpetuate problematic power structures? Will we end up coming up with a taxonomy of taxonomies? Will our heads explode?“
3. I’m seeing my grandparents after Readercon! This is less unambiguously happy: neither of them are in great health at the moment, which is why I’m going, but I also really like both of them and it will be nice to go out to the Vineyard.
4. Someone cancelled plans that I was really looking forward to on me, but it’s OK, I can just do other things with my time and it’s great. I have confidence in myself and my social network and I am going to play board games for many hours Saturday and Sunday.
5. I am doing productive things at my job and it feels great.
6. I’m catching up with friends from high school.