11 very simple and personal reasons for joy and general exhilaration

1. the smell of warm bread straight out of the oven
2. serious life plans involving learning and occasional trips to Paris to take the odd exam
3. I have really cool hair right now
4. going to New York with a lovely friend I haven’t seen in a while
5. I’ve never been to New York and am really excited!
6. hot chai and a cat purring on my lap
7. I wake up every single morning feeling up with life. It might go down after that, but not so much.
8. 6 months down the line, I can think of A and not double up in pain. That took long enough, I know.
9. I’m remembering I have a flexible body and I enjoy using it. I’d forgotten, so wrapped I was in rug-like despondency.
10. ok, I’m slightly ashamed of that one, but the second series of the L word has started and I have episode 1 to watch. Popcorn time.
11. February, that big lump of bleakness, will soon be out and flat on its arse.

That’s all, blogpeople. It’s small, it’s fuzzy, it’s my world.

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And today's top story, brought to you by a combination of ennui and post-lunch digestion


1. It is illegal in Florida for a widow to …
a) to remarry within six months
b) to wear pink for the rest of the year
c) to parachute on a Sunday

2. It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that
a) causes laughter in church.
b) makes you look like a terrorist
c) makes you look like a hell’s angel

3. It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo
a) because they’re an endangered species
b) from the second story of a hotel
c) without proper warning

The correct answers are c, a and b respectively, which apparently prompted two (bored but rich?) British students to spend next summer travelling from state to state, violating every stupid law they possibly can.
Not quite Bonnie and Clyde, though.
Starting in California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course.
In (landlocked)Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting. If they manage to outwit state troopers, and perhaps federal agents on their trail, they will be able to take a deserved, but nevertheless illegal, rest when they have a nap in a cheese factory in South Dakota.
"There are thousands of stupid laws in the United States, but we are limiting ourselves to breaking about 45 of them," said one of them. He said he got the idea for his transatlantic crime wave while playing a board game called Balderdash. One of the game's questions asks players to complete the phrase: "It is illegal in Florida for a widow to …
"I looked on various websites, one in particular called dumblaws.com, and found loads of stupid laws. Some of them there are outmoded reasons for, others just seem to be ridiculous, like banning whale-hunting in a landlocked state." he said.

I wonder if they’ll go dildo-smuggling in Texas or will be indulging in anal sex in whichever state that considers this fun activity illegal between consenting adults.
I really, really hope so.