The Happiness Meme--Day 1

I was actually just coming onto LJ to say that I need to take a sabbatical. I have been clinging, so hard for so long, to this idea that I can still be something other than a Lawyer all the time. But it turns out it isn't so much true, and, as terrible as my life has been lately, it's about to get much worse, and the next two weeks are apparently going to be swallowed in an onslaught of days when I won't be allowed to sleep and I will be stuck in the middle of nowhere with people I despise who treat me like an indentured servant. My life is basically a series of outrageous tasks like you'd find on a reality show, only there's no chance of a prize at the end. There's a possibility I'll return sooner, but for now it looks like I won't be allowed to have a life again until February 1, so I sadly have to leave you for a bit. It's like going on hiatus for Eurovision or something.

And I jump online and find jlrpuck  has tagged me for this meme:

THE HAPPINESS MEME
Rules: For eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag eight people to do the same

Hahahahahaha! O, the irony! Because I actually was having an excellent day today, until around 9:04 p.m. And this is because my job has me bugged. As soon as they hear me make a plan to do something non-work-related, they make sure to find some reason I have to be at work during that time. As soon as I express affection for some task I've been given, they make sure it is taken away from me. And as soon as I start to sound the way I used to sound, happy and enthusiastic and maybe a little hopeful about the future, they make sure that they send me the world's most depressing e-mail reminding me that I belong to them and who told me I was allowed to think about something other than work for even a little while. So, sorry, I'm not doing this meme. Not right now. It's got to wait until February 1. It just has to. The idea of coming up with something I'm happy about tomorrow and the day after and the day after, all these carbon copy days of horror that I have in store, is just another thing for me to stress myself out about. So I suppose the general thing for me to be happy about, for the next eight days, is that this isn't my job all the time, or even for the rest of my life. This is just NOW, and time, thank God, moves. It always keeps moving. And someday I'll wake up and twenty years will have gone by and I'll wonder why I thought this was never going to end. That thought makes me happy. And, after February 1, I will finish all seven days of this meme, I promise.

Here's the happiness for today: Tetris with arctacuda  and bscotchpuma . Well, mostly bscotchpuma, because arctacuda doesn't play Wii. But I am SO GRATEFUL I went to their house tonight. It did me a world of good. Thanks, guys!