five reasons that today turned out to actually be pretty darn good.

1. i got taken off of envelope stuffing patrol, which while really not that bad, stepped over the lines of the provisions set down by my boss in order to facilitate my being lent out to the other department. stuffing envelopes, it seems, falls out of the range of skills that typically fall under my job description (and i was lent out on the understanding that i would only be asked to do things that could reasonably be applied to my job). and the boss was not down with that. i'm not sure why it is that i think that rocks so much, but i do.
2. not only did i get a refund on the reactivation-fees-that-should-never-have-happened from assurance hosting, but i got refunds on all the bundled services that we didn't want in the first place but weren't given a choice about. fifty bucks is fifty bucks, but actually successfully navigating customer 'service' is priceless.
3. my friend raski is in town for a week after nearly two years with the peace corps in kazakhstan. and i'm so excited to see her that i'm thisclose to swinging into full on twitch mode. i mean, really. i had two friends in college, and she was one of them.
4. i'm seriously considering replacing my long-gone smoke breaks with afternoon snogging breaks, because today's brightened up my afternoon JUST THAT MUCH. i just have to convince my partner in crime that coming into manhattan in the afternoon for that purpose is a really good idea. no, really.
5. japanese strawberry milk candy. it's like cheesecake in lozenge form. and cheesecake in any form is okay by me.