Why?

Why am I all of the sudden fine and sprightly and chatty and spouting sunshine when yesterday the world was dull and drear and uni-dimensional and the fog aptly represented the slothly action of my brain circuitry? Am I just the hormoniest and mood-swingingest person ever in the history of the world, or does this happen to you too?

My brain yesterday: The weather is crappy today. My apartment is a huge mess. I have a lot of work to do. I really don't like it here. My throat hurts. This sucks.

My brain today: Ooh! I should bring my recorder to Jasmin's for Christmas and we could play bad Christmas duets like we did last year! *giggles* And I can't forget to order that one book for Dad and mmm, I think I'll have chili for supper and gosh wouldn't it be fun to go see that movie that opens next week and I can hardly believe that 2005 is almost over and wow, do you realize that this was the only entire calendar year of my life that I have had a full-time job? Neat-o!

WTF? I am a freaking mystery, even to myself. How will anyone else ever understand me?

You know what I'm looking forward to in the US, grocery-wise? Real black pepper - crushed, not ground. And brown sugar - fine, not granulated. And hamburger - ground, not all hanging together in long, tough, tiny snakes. And tortillas and fresh cilantro and real chili powder. And I am looking forward to having roommates! Though they are not groceries, really, so I guess I should have put this in a paragraph all its own. I can just hear my eighth-grade grammar teacher now: well, actually all I remember her saying is "a succinct nugget." Though I forget the context, so the quote isn't particularly useful in my grammatical undertakings nowadays. It would be a good Jeopardy! answer though, and the question could be: "What is the easiest kind of diaper to change?"