And thank you, too, for sharing your harpy news. I love that good things are still happening, since most of what we focus on–media-wise–is crap and garbage and ugly horror.

So, hurrah for everyone! And extra good wishes to those of you laboring to finish up big projects. As they say over at ICHC: YOO KAN DOO EET!

My good news is that my brothers and I successfully threw a surprise 50th birthday party for our Mum. She loved it and had a really good time and I got to see many dearly loved friends I hadn’t seen in a long while.

I’m loving everyone else’s good news too.

This is such a timely reminder to be grateful for what we have, to focus on the good. Our good news lately – I have a great, new grown-up job (no more childish mindgames!), for which we moved to a gorgeous, rockin’ new city, in a climate I adore, to a house and neighborhood I am grateful for every morning when I wake up and every night when I come home, near a fabulous public school which we will someday need (so much better than the bottom-of-the-barrel schools available in our old city). Our youngest is 14 months old, our oldest is 2.5 years, and both are just bursting with joy, life, exploration, new concepts and words, creativity, and love. I am certain my late mother would be proud of all I’m doing & accomplishing, and that’s huge for me.

I’m in a web class right now, for putting our work online, and we have to design a website. I am a TERRIBLE designer. No, really. It’s OK – I never learned and I really don’t have a good eye for web design. Cross stitch design, yes, web design, no. I wanted to make a site to be a place where people who do what I do can come and post their work, or find resources, or just find a community – because I’m leading the cutting edge and it’s kinda lonely. I have one online place to go…not a lot, considering the vastness of the web. So that was the plan.
Thursday I was finally confident enough to post the basic site with the most recent design out to people who weren’t in class – on FB. And one of my friends, one of the few people who does what I do, asked to post hir work on my site.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND. I have a LOGO.

Even though we can’t afford it, my husband and I decided to throw caution to the wind and grow our family. I just found out a couple of weeks ago that I’m pregnant and this one seems to be progressing well and normally (we miscarried last year). We’re excited, terrified, hopeful, anxious, and overjoyed all at once.

I don’t have a lot of good news right now – in fact I got hit with a whole lot of terrible news yesterday (no funding for next year, going to have to leave my beloved city and my beloved boyfriend, who so far is choosing to let his refusal to deal with his own issues drive us apart). But I guess the one piece of good news is that the end of this dissertation is in sight, and I have some pretty good leads on work and post-docs for next year. Fingers crossed.

Plus! I stopped by a gas station on the way home from the Queer Prom, so I could get something to drink… and the cashier called me “sir”!!! Fuck. Yes.