Pizza Diavola

Things that made me happy yesterday:

1. I gave notice at my current abode. When I got off the phone with the roommate whose name is actually on the lease, I felt free and light, as if I could fly. For reasons why I am feeling this way, see here
2. I saw an apartment that I liked a great deal and not 15 minutes after I’d filled out an application and left, the landlord called and said that I could have the place. Cue some dithering about whether I really did like the place, whether Alamo Square would be a better place to live than Nob Hill, how much not having laundry in the building really mattered, etc. But in the main, I was excited. The kitchen’s adorable, all my furniture can fit in the apartment comfortably (minus the bed frame, which I want to dispose of anyway)
3. Walking from an open house in Hayes Valley to an open house in Alamo Square, I saw this sign:
   
   

   A street sign for Friendship Ct.

4. The wonders of modern technology: the +1 called me using the Skype app on his iTouch, which was picking up a wireless signal from the bus he was riding to the airport. When I answered the Skype call, I found out that my laptop had a built-in microphone, and basically talked at my laptop while lying in bed. I remember when AIM first integrated voice chat, back in 2000 or 2001: LN and I were chatting over AIM, my laptop was plugged into a 56k dial up connection, and LN had to stick an actual microphone into her computer. I didn’t have a mike with the right size jack for my laptop, so she talked and I IMed back. I didn’t have a cell phone back then, and the reception at my house was terrible, too. We’ve come a long way since then!

Things that made me happy today:

1. Realizing that I’m moving and that I’m done with apartment hunting. And I only had to see six places, too. SCORE.
2. The +1 is flying back to SF in a few weeks, and I’ve been thinking about taking the afternoon off from work to meet him at the airport. Speaking as someone who’s flown a lot; is rarely met at the airport; and is usually a little envious of the happy reunions between family and friends at the arrivals terminal, I thought it would be nice to say, “Welcome back,” at SFO instead of giving him my new address and telling him to ring the buzzer when he gets there. AP is revolted by such schmoopy sentimentality, so I upped the ante:

   PD: so i was thinking when [the +1] gets into SFO
   PD: i should bring flowers, right?
   PD: bc that’s what people do when they meet their significant other after time apart, right?
   AP: I’m going to stop talking to you now,
   AP: As I am eating with sandy
   AP: And you are making me puke
   PD: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

3. Sleeping for eight hours and feeling rested when I woke up this morning.
4. I got a new kind of granola for my morning yogurt, and it’s crunchy, nutty, and subtly honey-sweet.