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Pass the happy! šŸŒ»šŸŒˆ When you receive this list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications! šŸ’•šŸ’•

Thanks! And thanks to @impalaforthree, who also sent me this a few days ago but then I forgot to do anything about it.

  1. Cats. Especially my unbelievably cuddly fluffy cat who spoons with me in bed.
  2. Good booze (wine, beer, whisk(e)y, cocktails), especially finding just the right food + beverage pairing.
  3. Fun but also intellectually satisfying entertainment that I just canā€™t stop watching (OK, the not being able to stop part isnā€™t great). Shows created by Michael Schur, Aaron Sorkin, and Joss Whedon (yeah, I said it) tend to fall into this category.
  4. The change in the feel and the smell of the air as summer turns to fall or winter to spring. Transitional seasons are my favorite. (And Iā€™m really fucking sick of summer.)
  5. Making new intellectual connections, e.g., between a piece of art or literature and the historical context. Bonus points if itā€™s about the late 19th century.

Hereā€™s me in bed with my cat:

Maple, cinnamon, and amber if you feel like it ;)

Thanks for the questions! I just did maple, so:

cinnamon – if you had to live in a time period different than the present, which would you choose and where?

Oh, jeez. Can I change my gender in this scenario? If not, can I index it toĀ ā€œwhenever and wherever it sucked least to be a womanā€? Which might just be when and where I am nowā€¦ or now, but in Sweden or something. If I could be a man ā€“ and also not Jewish ā€“ maybe Vienna in the 1890s? Or the Italian Renaissance, Iā€™m kind of feeling that today. Iā€™d have to be noble or middle-class, though. And Iā€™d have to do something about my sense of smellā€¦

amber – share an unpopular opinion that you may have.

Isnā€™t that basically all I do on this site? An unpopular opinion that I havenā€™t already shared to death… um. Hawaiian pizza is delicious? Yes, you heard it here, Iā€™m a pineapple on pizza person. OK, thatā€™s probably too bland, as unpopular opinions go. Uh… I donā€™t know if this is unpopular around here, but itā€™s probably a little odd: I think the world should be united under a single government that guarantees everyone certain rights, then divided into progressively smaller administrative regions, based on things like natural geographic boundaries and crop-growing conditions, which would decide local matters for themselves. There would be completely free movement across these local boundaries. They wouldnā€™t divide existing communities, but otherwise they wouldnā€™t take things like ethnicity into account, except inasmuch as official business would be conducted in the native languages of all groups with a sufficient concentration in the region. Yeah, Iā€™m a secret utopian.