I have been moved.
I am sitting at a desk in a different wing of the 14th floor. This desk is rotated 90 degrees in relation to my old one, and it is really throwing me off.
Aside from that, I can feel myself on the edge of a hibernation. Every so often I hide in my room like a mountaintop hermit, eschewing outside contact in favor of my down comforter. It is usually preceded by a week or so of frantic social activity, with which I think I am just finishing. Part of the situation is the fact that all of the people closest to me are very involved in being smitten with someone at the moment. Bravo to them, I say, but there is something about proximity to the "haves" when I am a "have-not" that turns down my mental volume. Remind me not to hibernate this time.
Now! On to positive things! First, I have new music to listen to. It was probably the queerest purchase I have ever made, and that includes the time I bought Spandex. Dig it: The Circuit Party Vol. 4, full of oooh oooh yeah yeahs; Happy 2b Hardcore Techno Dance Anthems, full of boom-ch boom-ch; and Cher, full of vocodery goodness.
Second, check out this website. Honestly, who has time to make something like this?
Third, and possibly most important, I just realized that the board that details available ingredients at the salad bar across the street from me has a listing not for "chick peas," but for "chic peas." Who knew that legumes could be so fashionable?