Things That Make Me Irrationally Happy

1) Those little brown birds that you see on the sidewalk when the pigeons aren’t chasing them away.
2) The way really nerdy people sometimes swing their arms a little too much when they walk.
3) Catching people micro-dancing on the subway.
4) My new Ikea pole-mounted dresser/shelf combo that looks like it’s floating in space. Yeah, it’s particleboard, but it looks hella Jetsons and that makes it good.
5) The food cart I pass on the way to work that has “LIVE, LIFE, LONG HEALTHY SAFETY” painted on the side.
6) There’s some brand of shoe out there that makes the soles out of bright yellow rubber, and it’s great to watch people walk toward you in those. [Addendum: today I saw a woman wearing white high heels with hot pink soles, which was also pretty good. The fact that her feet were spilling over the sides of the shoes made it even better.]
7) Hearing our lab technician Dores, with a very heavy Chinese accent, refer to fish larvae as “baybay.”