A request:

[raven]

Having what would be politely called a truly disastrous^[1] mental health day, unfortunately. Off in a moment to fetch MOAR PILLZ, omg. Do me a favour, darlings? Tell me happy stuff. I'll go first:

-first of all, I sincerely recommend everyone listen to "Hope on Fire" a few times on top volume;

-the BBC have started talking about "the Obama administration" (and the world is starting to resemble The West Wing, oh my);

-the NYT Caucus goes into great detail about the Obama family puppy (it's the First Puppy, omg!);

-yuletide is open for sign-ups and is made of win;

-my cat. Look at her. Yeah.

Happy stuff, yes. Pretty please.

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[1] I cannot SPELL that word. Disastrous. Disasterous. Disastrrrrrrrous. Um.

Comments

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I lost my notepad on the train and actually started crying because it had so much in it and I'd been planning to send it off to a mate in the US as part of her Christmas present; some kind soul handed it in at Manchester Picadilli and my sister managed to get it picked up for me and come home on the same day I'd lost it.

Yay :D!

Also; my fandom now has angels in. And they are awesome.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

* !!!

And, I just opened my gmail inbox and found that a commission I requested off a mate some time back has just been completed, and it is *gorgeous*, and if her LJ weren't flocked on the NC17 posts I'd so link you to the picture, because, guh!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I wondered if you got it back! Am v. glad to hear you did.

(And, yes! That is good arts.)

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

um. I am so physically tired I want to be ill, and I get to go back to sleep for an hour before work?

And Thea Gilmore has released a cover of You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). I'm going to have to buy the album for a second time to get it, it's only on the deluxe edition which iTunes added after I got the standard edition of Liejacker, so I'm basically paying twelve bucks for it and I don't care, that song makes me happy in inexpressible ways!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

There's new Thea Gilmore? You give me JOY.

[me-ves-y-sufres.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScICjRvTy3E) makes me happy. I think you've already seen it. So does this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKexAVIUY4), in an entirely different, small, cruel way.

Oh, and I love all of Craig Taylor's one million tiny little plays about Britain, but this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/jan/27/1)one and this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/feb/09/2) one are funny and brilliant (rather than depressing and brilliant). They're only about thirty lines long each, too.

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

It makes me happy that people are already pondering Obama/Emanuel. But perhaps you are not as depraved as I?

(Even MORE happy-making is speculating on the pairing name: Obamanuel? Emama? Hee!)

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

No, actually Emama is off the list, because it looks too much like "Enema".

*is definitely going to hell*

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

English heritage injects cash to help save Bletchley Park (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7710966.stm) (site of "Enigma").

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Yess!

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Got a girlfriend visiting in a few days.

The house is clean.

I have pumpkin pie.

The food is full of home cooked meals.

Here's a hug just for the heck of it.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

PIE. Thank you for hugs.

Probably NSFW

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

And if you don't agree, I'm afraid I shall have to give you a fucking hazing.

Re: Probably NSFW

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

KITTIES.

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

America has panned the Life on Mars remake almost as much as I did.

I can go overseas and look people in the eye, and be proud of my leaders.

A friend needs a pet sitter, so I will be spending a quiet week in a house with just me, two cats and a dog.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

That sounds delightful. Also, hurrah. That remake was a travesty.

[outintherain.livejournal.com]

I'm having such a Vienna Teng week... was listening to Hope on Fire on the way to uni this morning...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I LOVE HER. I mean, so much. Last time she played here I had an exam, which was FAIL.

[clubhopper15.livejournal.com]

For once, because everyone is so happy about Obama, Kenyans from both sides of our political divide are able to agree about something and embrace each other.

My puppy is sitting on his back and waggling his feet in the air

Yet one more hoop (the ELAT) has been jumped through.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Hurrah for Obama, and your having done the ELAT!

happy stuff

[macadamanaity.livejournal.com]

- one of the lawyers from Casey v. Planned Parenthood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey) agreed to speak at my symposium!

- I'm writing a non-cracky fic in which the Doctor is played by Catherine Tate, and ultimately is Donna.

- Every single anti-choice voter measure put forward during the american election failed, including the abortion ban in south dakota, the amendment to define life as starting at conception in colorado, and the parental notification for minors' abortions in california.

Re: happy stuff

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

DONNA IS AWESOME. I endorse this event or product.

And, hey, yes about the anti-choice measures! I haven't heard them talked about much, and they are awesome.

[sophiahagia.livejournal.com]

My black labrador has been running around all morning with various toys (tug ropes, bones, balls, odd things beyond description), alternating between asking me to play and just gallopping around like a crazy animal. I'd take pictures, but a) she never holds still long enough, and b) I have no camera.

Also, *hugs*. A lot.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Many hugs to you too, dear. I hope you and Hester are doing well.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Harriet looks like a proper teenage cat; a grown-up with a hint of kitten, you know?

I am warming to my tutor, probably because he no longer thinks I'm an idiot and ALSO because of a conversation we had this morning regarding weird coincidences. "Ah, well, these things happen quite a bit," I said.

"Very Pratchett," he mused. After the initial shock of him referencing Pratchett I cheerfully replied:

"Well, million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten!"

There was a mildly stunned silence and then we discussed Why I'm Dead Rubbish At Titling Stuff but, still. I think he's warming to me! He tried to make me do his lecture ths afternoon too. So that was good!

*hugs*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

She acts like a teenage cat, too. She's all sulky and hides under the stairs.

Hurrah for Pratchett lecturers! I entirely approve.

Also: did I ever thank you for the package? If I did not, I humbly apologise. The cat adored the catnip in embarrassing fashion, and new music was ftw. Thaaaaaankyou.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Things which are good:

- Black Books is free on 4 on Demand (and it is like unto crack).

- I have finished my first essay of the term (3000 words! never done a philosophy one that long before).

- BBC weather says the drizzle will clear and the weekend should be warm (this is very important because I'm going to spend all weekend in the company of twelve seven- and eight-year-old girls, who will be very miserable if we have to keep them indoors).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I hope the little girls are treating you well...

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's such a cutie. I love her white mittens!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I love your icon!

(and yes, the kitty is so cute.)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Harriet-the-kitty is adorable!

I find it impossible to be anything less than ebullient. YES WE CAN HAS A PRESIDENT OBAMA YAYE!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Harriet-the-kitty is a monster. She decided yesterday that she was going to jump into the shower with me. Owwwwwwww.

(yes we can! I am so happy about this I cannot tell you, and he's not even my president!)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Before photobucket deletes it, said commission I mentioned earlier :D, for my favourite Persona 3 pairing;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v347/emeral_embers/commish_akinariprotag.png

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

OMG.

omg.

OMG.

[troyswann.livejournal.com]

I posted the other day some Icons and Banners of Happy (http://troyswann.livejournal.com/677320.html?nc=29). Maybe one of those will be cheering?

Happy things. Hmmmm. I just spent a good few minutes chair dancing in my office. I recommend it. :)

*hug*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, pretty colours. And chair dancing is becoming a theme, considering my housemates keep playing this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk).

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

happy things: i had an excellent fried egg sammich for breakfast this morning. i did not feel completely hopeless upon waking up this afternoon. (you may not think it, but i feel your pain on that front. i really, really do.) i'm fairly sure that i did not entirely fail the lab test i just took, and i thought that i most certainly would. i do not have class tomorrow and therefore i do not have to study or read ANYTHING tonite. i am going on vacation in a little over a month and i cannot WAIT.

the weather is perfect, and everything is 'okay' for the moment.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I just had a fried bacon sandwich. I concur with this assessment.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

US politics happy/diverting:

Letters to Obama from Harlem fourth-graders (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-rubinfeld/letters-to-president-obam_b_141788.html), and a Very Srs Poll (http://alpheratz.livejournal.com/513343.html). Hmm, what else?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

OMG I IS DED OF CUTE.

[yahalomay.livejournal.com]

You don't know me but I've been lurking your journal. =)

Happy thing: I downloaded the two songs you put up yesterday and have decided today to go out and buy Vienna Teng's latest albulm.

Happy thing #2: The poem you have in your sidebar is a lovely poem and always cheers me up when I am sad.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, Vienna Teng! She is so very lovely, I adore her.

That poem in my sidebar is my favourite poem of all time. I just, I love the simplicity and scale of it, the way it manages to carve out such truth with such quiet, deliberate ease. I love it dearly.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

In case you haven't yet seen my goofily happy entry on the subject, rumor has it that Biden is getting a dog too, because his wife promised him a big dog if he got elected. LOVE.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I say again: he needs a GSD. I mean, he needs one. And more and more, I regret having referred to Joe Biden as village idiot from Delaware. It's not his fault his state doesn't exist.

[tau_sigma]

Alas, I didn't keep up with LJ at the weekend because I went home, but I do have some belated happy news that I shall share anyway in the hope that it spreads a bit of happiness (despite being entirely irrelevant to you).

I can't remember if I'd mentioned, but one of my friends, Ant, made a grand total of 3 days in Durham at the start of this year before he was diagnosed with shingles and had to go home. This morning, he appeared unexpectedly in a lecture. He has been back since Friday apparently, but since I went home on Thursday, I didn't know, and he hasn't been telling people because he wants to see the surprise on their faces. It was a very nice surprise; he's missed four or five weeks of lectures (fairly significant when there are only 22 teaching weeks in the year) so it was getting more and more worrying about whether he'd be able to come back and catch up, but he is back, and doing quite well, and that is very happy indeed.

*hugs* I hope you're feeling at least a little better. Much love and hugs sent your way, dear.