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1. Vienna Teng last night.
2. Who played both my and cirne's requests
3. And a bunch of other stuff I didn't expect to hear but wanted to
4. And I see her again Saturday
5. Also the dog is still cute.

1. An astonishingly good production of Man of La Mancha yesterday
2. cirne's dog is as cute as ever
3. and as snuggle-oriented
4. a flight out of BWI with minimal transit-oriented trauma getting there
5. Gaudy Night: still brilliant.

1. a boss I can trust
2. refactoring, and getting to do so
3. new tea (blood orange pu-erh)
4. adorable alleycats outside my window
5. Boston tomorrow.

1. budding green tree branches outside my bedroom window
2. N is taking moving boxes which means they will soon no longer colonize my downstairs
3. my next ticket at work lets me rewire something that I think is awful
4. my backrub robot more or less works
5. a reliably hot shower

1. Sondheim revue last night with B.
2. They did a surprising amount of A Little Night Music, including a quite good "Now/Later/Soon."
3. Also an "Another Hundred People" that hit the arc of the song right.
4. The Mountain Goats tonight with N.
5. I am done with The Five Red Herrings, neither curiosity nor completism shall ever tempt me to read it again, and now I get to read Harriet and Peter having sublimated feels at each other which as we all know is 90% of the point of Sayers.

1. I finally get to put my idea for killing state machines at work into practice on one of them.
2. I have time to write tests at work again.
3. I AM WRITING CODE I DON'T HATE
4. I AM WRITING CODE I DON'T HATE
5. I AM WRITING CODE I DON'T HATE

1. I have a morning routine and I know following it helps the dysthymia.
2. I have healthy food and I know eating it helps the dysthymia.
3. I get to watch anime with cirne tonight.
4. And yell with her about how Eriol should just take his fedora and go home.
5. The new Mountain Goats album is streaming on NPR.

1. I actually got part of my security deposit back for my last apartment.
2. a morning routine to cling to when my brain is full of squirrels
3. the backrub cushion I splurged and bought
4. the fact that I am able to spend money on myself now without intense guiltbunnies
5. I can tell myself to take a day for just myself and sometimes I will listen.

1. tea with milk in
2. roast parsnips
3. morning yoga starting to work again
4. the flowers on the kitchen island
5. co-workers who push me

1. the cheese the Austrian contractors at work brought over for their visit
2. the sachertorte the Austrian contractors at work brought over for their visit
3. the schnapps the Austrian contractors at work brought over for their visit
4. maybe getting to do something other than accounting code forensics at work today???
5. there is still schnapps left if #4 fails