Happiness is Jumbo Lump Crabcakes

What makes life better after reading about the atrocities committed in Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ghana during the 1990s? What puts a smile on my face after hours of determining whether Maryland's Catholic elite were acting from interest or ideology during the lead-up to the American Revolution?

My boyfriend, arriving at my door in a suit with reservations at an amazing seafood restaurant. I was dressed in leggings, a hoodie, and my Converse, so obviously that had to change-- into my Venetian dress with my Viennese Waltz shoes (the red tapestry ones). I felt beautiful and happy. And I got to try escargot. AND I got Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes. *happy*

The rest of the weekend has passed in a blur of reading... so much reading... interspersed on Saturday with an I.T. show and a few episodes of "How I Met Your Mother." I finally finished everything reading-wise for Hoffman's class this week, though! Now to write the 10-page paper...