Things That Made Me Happy This Week, Week Eleven

[glenniebun]

• Getting the hell out of the flophouse--you mean I never said anything about the flophouse? When Vonda first told me I'd be staying at a "nasty-ass flophouse" in downtown Philly, I figured--and I know this shows me as a clueless middle-class white guy, but whatever--that it would be a quaint experience, that it wouldn't really matter where I was staying since it'd only be a week. I was incredibly glad on Monday night when I had the opportunity to move somewhere nice enough that I could sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time, with a bathroom I could bear to take a shower in.
• Having a puppy-dog crush around the office--okay, I take a while to become attracted to someone. I have to talk to someone for a while, start to get to know her, before I realize that hey, wait a second, that intelligent funny woman working with me is actually incredibly cute too! (I'm a big ol' softie, I know.) That didn't happen until the day before the election, though, so I didn't get a chance to do anything about it of course--maybe when our paths cross again.
• Happening on The Chicago Manual of Style while ransacking the office post-election, of all things to find in a political office.
• Getting the hell home--I liked Philly and all, and it added a lot to my cachet that I'm in demand out-of-state, but it was very, very nice to come home to my own bed. I have a fan here, for example, even though it got nicely cool again as soon as I got home.
• Getting my tax refund! It came while I was away, and my mother didn't tell me any of the times I called her.
• Cleaning up the house a little--the day after I got home I threw out so many pizza boxes from my living room that the pile was taller than I am.
• Feeling like I have some job security--Friday evening I was at Vonda's apartment when she got a call asking if she and I could pop down to Hoboken for a couple weeks to work on a local race. By the time we get back from that the mayor's race in Bridgeport--which has been getting very exciting lately, and will have boatloads of money running through it--will be heating up coming off of the DTC endorsement, so I'll assuredly land somewhere in that clusterfuck and ride that wave to the election (on, I kid you not, September 11th). At that point I should be in a much better position to hop onto a presidential campaign somewhere--maybe Iowa, which would be exciting. So at the end of the day I'm sticking around campaigning until at least the fall, and probably past that.