Things That Have Been Making Me Happy

• Frege's "On Sense and Nominatum." You rock, Frege. Way to be my first assigned reading for two of my classes.
• Kings of Convenience. Mellow, pretty, Scandinavian. Uncle Scott says they sound like early Duran Duran, but Uncle Scott looks an awful lot like William Shatner, so there.
• Getting paid to work as a substitute at Nonotuck. Sure, I'm happy to volunteer there every week, but an extra paycheck never hurt anyone, either. A substitute! Just like a real grownup!
• Nighttime sledding with Jess, Lisa and Susan on Hospital Hill, the most amazing sledding hill I have ever experienced. These people brought their pack of excitable dogs who ran around and got in the way and tried to rescue us with disastrous results. Floss and Lillian, come visit me and I'll take you sledding. Floss, come February 11 and I'll even take you to see Enter the Haggis at the Iron Horse, which is so small you can totally touch them. One time offer, act now.
• Seeing professors at the gym. Always entertaining, if alarming. Also, watching ER on the treadmill.
  
• Jay G_rfield's examples in class: "Say there is a militant republican liberatarian who is adamantly opposed to the monarchy. Call her Frida. She has decided she never wants to be in the presence of any royalty. But Frida, for reasons known only to herself, is also a devoted afficianado of Welsh corgis, and would love nothing better than to get the autograph of the most famous breeder of Welsh corgis in the British empire... whoever that might be." Also, props to Jay for insisting we ask questions the moment we feel the faintest flicker in our understanding. When I'm a teacher I'm going to totally be like him, only with significantly less jewelry.