happiness........

ok, so i was reading the redsox book, and was in august/september........you know...the parts where cleveland beat the yankees 22-0....and the redsox were on a roll....and nomar got traded for 2 really good players.......and all was well with baseball.....and yet i was not happy as i read this.....because i was sitting in the honda dealership........a full 30 minutes past the promised end-time....and the workshop i had driven to lexington to attend had already started.......and i had no choice but to sit it out.....redsox book in hand......until the recall airbags were switched out......how long could that take.......gentle readers.....i was not so distressed that irequired lamaze breathing.....that came later.....when i was lost in central baptist hospitals many buildings looking for the correct lower level auditorium.....only to find that i had just missed the first speaker, that all remainders of the catered lunch were the dregs.....and that i ended up sitting next to the eku professor that took my place at the eku/danville campus..........and not by my choice......ah well.......not all was lost.....i learned a few key things that i can relay to my coworkers on monday morning.....they will ask because monday is prenantal clinic and the workshop was on gestational diabetes........and i was being paid, technically......by the health department as i sat in the dealership.....it did seem like the right thing to do at the time.....the dealership is just down the road from the workshop locale......not 5 minutes by car.......but then dealerships lie about time frames....now don't they.........so let's look at the bright side......i stopped at my favorite places on the way home.....and i found a michael kors car coat for $58...after many markdowns........with a button-in lining.......it IS orange.....but hey.....i may be entering the manic phase of meanmammahood.........at home, with the pc spot taken by a child who was also on his laptop at the time.....i picked up, yet again, the time magazine issue on happiness..........those of you out there who have missed this issue need to sneak one out of the library.......i especially enjoy joel stein's thoughts on marriage and happiness....and the article about teams and fans called 'behind the thrill of victory'.........the fans highlighted in this article were.....the redsox fans.....ohio state football fans amd u of kentucky basketball fans........who could make up such ironies..........i embody all three.....from time to time.......not to the point that i have carmen ohio chimes on my doorbell, or display an osu flag everytime osu plays......and i have no redsox stuff save this book i am reading.......and certainly nothing with uk on it......as i did not go to school there...and do not work there....although i do have a child who goes there....i am torn on the etiquette of fan clothing........will i feel the same way about orange and black, the colors of the princeton tigers.....or is my coat a freudian slip as to where my loyalities will future lie (sp?).......i was just talking the other day to a friend about how reading the princeton coursebook makes me want to go back to college...to study interesting things....certainly not science like i did the first time. or second time in grad school............not that i have lost my faith in science...but because i might have been happier doing something else........bad train of thought......as i firmly believe that it is my choices...good or bad...that got me to this very state of bliss........the american average appears to be a 7.28 out of 10.......sounds just fine to me........