I've been having a decent day. I'm most of the way through reading The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career , which is engrossing, although not nearly as much as Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Guide for Young Women in Academia . I even read outside on the deck for a while, since the sunshine and birdsong was so beguiling. I've done lots of laundry and grocery shopping. I've written several pages on windmills. I had mozarella bocconcini with lunch. Now, however, I'm particularly happy since I discovered that my friend Diane now has a LJ (darkling_dreams)! It's a good day. (Note to those using other services: I'm equally delighted to follow my friends and acquaintances on other weblog services as well. It's extra-convenient for me when people use LJ, but I also use a very nice aggregator .)