I’m reading Nerd Book* and one of the most useful things I’ve learned is that my method of coping with negative emotional states has a name (”reframing”) and is a proven technique that happy, successful people use

…wow that was an entertaining five hours spent with coworkers.

Windows on my computer finally!! THE HYPE IS REAL

totally just burst into tears watching Jake’s computer start updating heh

well, if I wasn’t an obnoxiously cocky bitch before, I am now!!

tfw you realize all those weird fragments of stories you like to write are actually going to come in handy

I romanticize #meetinglife a bit much sometimes, because it’s not like we’re saving the world or anything, but being part of such a gangly but
well-oiled machine is going to seriously come in handy for a book
someday. this is how I judge my life. “worthy of being written about,
for better or worse?”

the universe often gives me neat little gifts packaged in the irony of someone’s well-meaning statement. thanks, universe <3

we live in a world where I can watch my husband systematically ask a series of questions to get one of my coworkers the right dog, because Facebook.