five good things

1. The 100, which I started on a whim a couple weeks ago and which, in spite of being kind of a nonstop gore-fest, has some of the raddest, most well-rounded lady characters I’ve ever seen on TV. Buffy Summers would be proud.

2. That Barack Obama video that you’ve probably already seen, and that Florence video you’ve probably already seen, and these Fretful Porcupine recordings that are maybe new to you, because they were new to me yesterday, and they made me really happy.

3. The feeling of writing something you are, for this one moment at least, really, honestly excited to share with the world.

4. It seems like it will never be warm again and we’re supposed to get another foot of snow this weekend, but yesterday morning I woke up and heard birds singing. Spring is coming. I know it is.