silver linings?

today has been the weirdest day. i would pull a preteen moment and say that it was the worst day ever, but there were two very poignant displays of gentle humanity that happened that made it have some silver linings. it all started last night with a fight, ending not in resolution, but in me sleeping alone. this morning began with another fight about the previous fight also not ending in resolution, but in me just being fed up and leaving.

i leave. it's raining. awesome.

i hoof it to the bus stop after opting to not take my bike. i stood in the rain for twenty minutes (possibly longer) and the bus never came. so then realizing that i was going to be late for my performance exam today i called a cab. the cab ALSO never came.

act of humanity 1: man in random cab from a different company happens to look out his window and i happen to wave and he happens to stop. you can't flag down cabs in winnipeg, they're not allowed to stop but for some reason he did. i told him i needed to get to my school downtown in 10 minutes. he said no problem, got me there on time and only charged me half price because i was soaking wet and had told him about my bad morning and how he was my silver lining.

granted the guy drove like a maniac, but he worked.

then i had my performance exam, and we WERE the most rehearsed and prepared group but suddenly a member of my group screwed up pretty severely twice and we ended up being the worst. i was disappointed. so then i walked across the street to this new cafe to buy a sandwich because i hadn't eaten all day, and they were closing in ten minutes.

Act of Humanity 2: boy (babe by the way) still sells me food and gives me free coffee because he said that i looked like i had had a bad day. then in the course of our conversation it came out that the gym next door that's completely new and part of campus is free for students. so i walked next door and got myself my first gym membership! (one short term goal accomplished).

now it's 6:30 on a friday evening and i'm at the library reading. i came across a great idea for a study involving the effect of Shinto on the prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder/washing compulsions versus checking compulsions in Japan. i pitched it to my advisor via email just now and i'm pretty pumped on it.

sunday i've been hired to take photos of a convocation for a family and i'm getting paid for it! it's awesome because i'm so broke it's ridiculous.

also! this man:

is in town and i'm so pumped! he's been my buddy for years now and we only reconnected last summer on one of his visits back home and i'm excited to hang out with him again!

hopefully things keep picking up!