Guess what? I just got a new job. I'll be working under a tiny little Latin American woman, with piles of frizzy dark hair, deceptively spacey dark eyes (her English is a little rusty, and I think the look of distant abstraction that comes across her face when I'm talking is due to the still conscious act of tranlating what I'm saying to her), and a skinny, olive-hued, anxious face. She's working on her dissertation, which has to do with the interactions between invasive and native plants, and I'll be helping. For now I'll just be weighing, measuring and categorizing her samples, but later on there will be other things to do, because she has several experiments going at once.

I'm very excited about it. It seems like a sweet job for me. Actually, I just feel good today, and I have no idea why. It started last night, and has continued into today. I think it's been several weeks since I felt this good. I don't know why it's happening, or how long it's going to last, but while this good vibes are still flowing I'm going to enjoy it.