Sleepless

I've been up since 3:00 this morning. That's right - 3 AM. It's now 5:50 (though the time stamp will lie - French time zone, remember?) and after sending several rambling emails, reading more of my Krakatoa book and wandering around my apartment in my underwear, I've decided to update my journal.

Yesterday was both a wonderful day and a sort of depressing day. Wonderful because my students were really good. Wonderful because I've been working on this slide show program and yesterday I made it really slick with multiple photo sets, invisibility, and organized my functions a little more appropriately. Wonderful because I got a call from one of my awesome Smith friends and I'm really looking forward to seeing her in a week or so. Wonderful because my roommate came home and I spent the whole afternoon having amazing conversations with her. Wonderful because I made a delicious dinner of crepes, chicken, onion and broccoli. Wonderful because I finished watching this documentary on the music industry that was (for silly reasons) really good.

It was sort of depressing because my mom called around 4:20 (tee hee, sorry, I'm tired and sort of delusional right now) to say that today my cat will probably be put to sleep.

That's probably the reason I can't sleep, come to think of it. Anyhow, I was just thinking about life and it occurred to me that even though I had a ton of great things happen to me yesterday (not to mention the day prior, over the whole weekend, and basically since I've come to NY), today is probably going to be dismal because of one event. It's funny how hundreds of good things can happen to you but you won't feel particularly happy... then one bad thing happens and it feels like a hundred.

I'm not meaning this to be incredibly negative or depressing (though it sort of is, now that I read it). I just hope that if you read this you'll try and focus on the good things in your life today, because I think it's too bad when one negative event makes us forget everything that is so wonderful.