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oops so much for my posting one happiness a day thing...i wish the reason for not doing so was because i didn't use my computer for the past however many days (hooray! and: no the hell way!).

friday was becca's birthday & we all went out to the icon and logan's? i saw a banana, a dracula, a parrot, a pirate, an evil queen, a flapper, abe lincoln, an angel, a light-up balloon man, two ghosts, many slutty your-noun-of-choice_'s, and a partridge in a pear tree. just kidding. i saw more but i can't remember.

i love the middle ages! speaking of a partridge in a pear tree. they were probably a terrible time to live in with regards to the black death (we once watched a movie about that in third grade after which they served mac & cheese at lunch and i couldn't eat it ), childbirth, even more soulless 1%, wars, famine, etc. but they're so cool to read about. i read a lot of historical fiction when i was younger, including king arthur and his knights with all its heavy handed christian themes and thee's and thou's. british literature of that age is especially interesting because it mixes myth with fact in a way that you find in really early literature of say, china (the feats of the first emperor is not wholly factual) or in the bible (i.e. mythical feats of the real man jesus, if you're an atheist like me). i love mysterious things that exist in the realm of reality too, like stonehenge. plus, you see the appropriation of older mythic arcs from people like the picts or the celts into anglo-saxon stories which then do plenty of their own evolving to come down to our modern day. it's fascinating. i'd love to take a myths class, because i'm almost certain that there are mythical trends borrowed between cultures or repeated amongst cultures that weren't close enough to borrow.

here's something i want to think about: evolution of non-biological things, especially things that aren't tangible bc it's too easy to map the evolution of, say, a toaster. actually i guess that's cool too because it's a litmus test for the evolution of ideas.

um. happinesses. i did think of them during the days i missed:

10/26 -- those delicious tapas at the icon. spanish tortilla, stuffed flatbreads, and the calamari! wooooow.
10/27 -- when scott and i were walking back from the farmer's market, i looked up and noticed an actual tree growing up out of an apartment building balcony many stories up. the sky was completely blue, the building of golden brick lit up with sunlight, and from the really dramatic angle from the ground put sky, building, and unexpected tree in perfect juxtaposition.
10/28 -- cocoa the rabbit on her back being completely still
10/29 -- kelly's face at dinner