Happy Things

From Alison, Jamie, Katheryn (via me), Matt, Micah, Tiffany, and me!

• An LIT pleading with a monitor not to purple x their book, then asking if they could make "special arrangements" for their purple x-ing
• Tiffany C. getting her banana stuck in her hair at breakfast
• Katheryn getting a phone call from Kendra while in OK
• "I wouldn't waste my film." -Adela, assuring us that she will help restore a good name to Refine by not taking pictures of guys
• Lizee doing line running for me
• "Can I just die?" -Kendra
  "Yes, the sooner the better." -Matt
• Josh Shipley demonstrating how his sister Paula is a boy magnet
• "I have never, ever planned a birthday party for a girl." -Joshua Ku
• A great outing with cool people
• Beating a team in basketball while wearing slacks J
• Ace standing up for me when I was being tormented
• Requesting that Brian execute revenge on Brent for watering me with the hose, and finding out that Brian put him up to it
• Joel describing [someone] as "peaches on steroids"
• Joel's plan to raise team morale by buying 15 cans of Pringles
• Peter, sharing what he has to be grateful for: "They only arrested 13 Germans at the World Cup"
• Caleb letting me read his journal
• Trying to figure out why Vladimir had a picture of "that girl" on his phone, then realizing that it was Mr. James' phone, and that Vladimir was going to report me to James for insulting his wife
• Alex announcing, "My mom is sixty-five years old and turns sixty-seven next week!"
  "What happened to sixty-six?" someone inquired.
  "Leap year!"
• Tim, expressing the joy of his soul as he watered the flowers with a very large hose
• Being told by an LIT of their fascination with the great battle in the heavens, when Michelangelo cast out Satan to the earth ("Go NINJA TURTLES!" -Matt)
• People being bitter at Loren Elms for not approving their music--specifically the individual who decided, "Loren Elms is such a hypocrite. He probably drives up to the training center listening to his rap music. Then, when he gets to the parking lot, he switches over to that intermystical stuff . . . you know, where the people sing, 'LAA.'"
• Chad's humor under stress (NONrepeatable!)
• Kendra: Dad of all dads!
• My team shoving me in the tub and turning the shower on during housekeeping
• The way we girls don't like to be in charge of chores--and trying to convince Ashia why she should be in charge of line breakdown rather than me
• Tabitha making me cry in our meeting (because she said something really encouraging)
• Kayla is going to Australia with me!!!
• Being serenaded by the "We love you, Kendra" song outside my office window