Thinking Happy Thoughts

The stress has been creeping in lately through a combination of shortening days, added work, lacking sleep, psycho teachers, research papers, etc. Although I feel yucky more often these days, I choose joy.

The things in which I've found joy today are these:

• I got out of a class 20 minutes early and got to spend those minutes with one of my favorite friends.
• It is Friday and I have only one more class before the weekend officially begins.
• There is only a week and a half until midterm break (!!!!). My plans include sleep, a commodity whose likeness I've been ill-aquainted with of late.
  
• Recognizing that while my face has been broken out for the greater majority of the last ten years, apparently 22 is the magic number, because these days I spend more days with clear skin than not. (Here's to 23!)
  
• There will be a TLC Soup Supper/Cook Out tonight. More importantly, there will be guitar-playing and singing involved.
  
• The new Chris Tomlin song "Amazing Grace/Our Chains Are Gone."
• Veronica Mars and Grey's Anatomy. 'Nuff said.

And when these things fail me, I simply remember friends-who-shall-remain-nameless dancing to Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back the other night. That image should make me happy for a very, very long time.