my brother made a movie. it is a seven minute documentary film, completed in five days for the hot docs international documentary challenge. i am the only person outside the crew to have seen it so far. it is a work of art.
sorry about the lack of lovely lately, but this time i have a legitimate reason. we department of finance clippers only really work twice a year: the budget, and the fiscal update. for both of those events we take a forty-eight to seventy-two hour break from living, and do nothing but monitor various sources of news.
but i’m back now. you may rejoice.
today’s bit of happy is my brand new travel mug. it allows me to do two things. first, it gives me a way to transport a full cup of coffee from my wonderful coffee machine (which will be it’s own lovely some day soon). and second, it lets me cross another thing off my list of things to do and get.
tonight i was stressed, and couldn’t sleep. so i went out on my balcony and looked out at the city, and thought about how lucky i am. now i am going to wish my family and friends a good night, kiss my wonderful kitten on his conehead, and go lie down and go to sleep in my bed.
not only were these socks clean when i put them on today, but i got them out of my drawer, where they had been put away.
a friend of mine told me he had a dream about me. in it, i was napping in the sunshine.
a friend told me that this video reminded him of my zest for saving animals. i’m a big fan of modest mouse, and i had heard the song before but not seen the video.
the silver lining to the fact that my bottle of 100% pure sesame seed oil fell off the top of the fridge, spilling half of it’s contents all over the floor, my pants, the walls, and my fridge door, is that now my entire apartment smells of it, and it’s one of my favorite smells.
i forgot. i had a night with my friends, we cooked dinner at my place and then watched bad tv. i went to bed.
so this is what you get.
today’s daily lovely is a bit of a cop out. it is personal, and possibly (unintentionally) vague, so don’t get your hopes up. but it is something that struck me today, so i feel it deserves its place in the archives of my life.
since i found it a couple of years ago i have thought that xkcd was one of the most brilliant comics on the internet. the author is a physicist with the inclinations of a poet, a romantic, a comedian, a deviant… my admiration for him is ever expanding.
today i was browsing through the xkcd archives when i found this particular, very early, comic of his. it is the last few panels of it that got my attention, causing my breath to catch in my throat, and my eyes to tear up. i won’t go any further, because it’s been a long day and i am again starting to well up. suffice it to say that in this case, to me, a picture is worth well over a thousand words, and what they say is something to which i can relate on the most basic level i have found inside me.
editor’s note: jeremy, in case you read this, i posted instead of numbing my mind with warcraft, while waiting for the drugs to kick in and put me to sleep.
ok, i promise, this is the last crippled kitten related daily lovely. but really, the fact that i couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera, and then i finally thought i had but alex had given me the wrong one… i have been really frustrated and discouraged. kitten gave me enough happy to motivate me to post. he deserves to be the subject.
happy valentines, guys.