The Happiness Thread

And the award for most relateable happy goes to...

 

This is going to sound weird, but I'm happy that the shoes that I can almost, but not quite, afford have sold out from the clearance sale in my size. Now I don't have to worry about whether I can justify buying them or not, they're gone.

 

I didn't fail my second year of university. Woot.

 

Cheer up! You still have a couple of more opportunities to fail!

 

thank goodness for that.

 

You've just reminded me I get my second round of first year results the day after tomorrow :/

 

That doesn't sound very happy. Have you not been taking your joy?

 

well i'm kinda happy, because im like 10 credits off passing the year, but kinda not because i have that awful feeling i've fucked up one of the two exams that i had

 

My grandson is finishing his last week at nursery school. I picked him up yesterday and was handed a bag with various bits and pieces in it; a scrapbook containing drawings and photos of him taking part in class projects, his pouch where he'd place his little action figures before Assembly. There were also all manner of small laminated pics that indicated to his peers which desk, coat peg etc, was his.

On handing all these to my daughter, she handed me a little laminated pic with his name on it to put in my memory box. Call me sentimental. I teared up. The love of my life is growing up so fast.

 

1) I forgot my keys today so....
2) ...all the essays I should be grading are locked away and...
3) ...I seem to have gone over my mobile data limit so my internet is throttled and running really slow plus....
4) ...I've got a couple hours to kill between jobs this afternoon and...
5) ... @tenderizer was kind enough to point out some weak points in one of my stories.

All together, this means it's WRITING TIME this afternoon!

Finally.

 

I'm super happy because i've passed all my units for my first year for Units, and with what i can work out is an overall 2:2

 

Congratulations! That'll take the pressure off a bit so you can enjoy the rest of your summer. (Well... aside from having to work, that is.)

 

Well, it means two things, 1) I can continue on the course I'm doing and 2) as I've got a 2:2 i can go on to do my Industrial year in confidence

 

Chocolate! That's all your smile needs. Chocolate.

 

Lemme take a shot at this.
I'm happy that even while I feel miserable because MSc thesis was going nowhere, my roof leaked in my fuse box and my mother was in the hospital... I managed to drag myself out of bed and do my experiments, my roof was fixed (didn't cost me a dime) and my mother is home and sort of well again. Life has this tendency to correct itself sometimes.
Also I'm having 3 people read my WIP and I'm getting so much attention. How did I not realize that a novel is a total chick magnet?

 

Well I'm glad things are looking up for you at the moment dude, life has a habit of sucking balls, then giving you a reason to continue! Good luck on your thesis BTW, what are you doing it on? (as a Uni student thinking of 3rd year Diss ideas I'm intrigued)

 

Finished and passed both of my classes today.

 

My topic is on self-healing fibers in composite structures, focusing on the structural aspect (I'm trying to figure out whether or not there's a preferred depth for a SH layer in a composite panel in case of impact damage and its subsequent healing). I think for 3rd year dissertation you can get away with something less dreadfully boring and specialized I think, I designed a modular flying personal vehicle together with 9 others... A flying car ^^

 

sounds cool what exactly did you degree wise and are doing currently for your Masters, I'm doing Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence right now and bouncing around an idea on Nanotechnology for my diss (though i fear we might start confusing people with this conversation lol)

 

The flying car might have given it away, but I've got a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering. Doing my thesis in aerospace specific materials, specifically for wind turbine blades (simple glass fiber reinforced polymers), trying to remove the need for offshore wind farm maintenance. From everyone in my group I'm probably the most structure-oriented.

 

I figured it might have been something along those lines, but knowing my department at university (they helped build the Mars Rover) I wasn't sure

 

So during my lunch hour at work, I often write my stories on my iPad. Some of my co-workers caught me doing that, read what was on the screen and said they liked it. One of them said he wanted an autographed copy of it if I ever get published.

 

Today I started Camp NaNoWriMo, only expecting to write about 700 words today. Instead I wrote 2,600 words
On the downside, I need to develop some characters because I feel the text came across as pretty one dimensional and dull, but progress is progress.

 

I came to terms with the fact that I might be gay. I've never let myself consider the possibility too much because I have a deeply homophobic father (lives in a different state and I'm not logistically dependent in any way, but still), but it also finally gives the answer to why I've always felt so different from everyone and why I've always felt this sense of claustrophobia about not wanting the life that society portrays everyone is "supposed" to want. I set up some dates with girls and finally have that heart-pounding excitement that I'd never felt when dating before.

Also, on my drive to Barnes & Nobles (where I currently sit in the cafe), there was a gecko (mini-lizard) clinging for dear life on the outside of my car windshield, so I pulled over and plucked it off and set it down in the grass. I'm glad and proud that I gave it a chance to live a happy live instead of splatting onto the highway.

 

I got my Real Estate License woot!!!