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The Best Part of Today #118:

Hello good weather.

When the time has finally arrived to free your shoulders and your feet from long sleeves and closed-toed shoes, it's something to be celebrated. It means the temperature has risen enough for you not to hate the wind for ripping through your layers and chafing your ruddy

cheeks and nose but rather to welcome breezes ruffling your hair and cooling your sun-warmed face. It means you can carry ice cream and cold drinks outside without punishing your fingers. It means more time in your day because you aren't wasting putting jackets and scarves and gloves and hats on and off every you enter and exit a building.

Welcome back Spring, nice to see you again.

Cancer never sleeps, so these people don't either.

The Best Part of Today #117:

Relay For Life.

This a great thing, you guys. You see, I'd heard the name in passing before and I vaguely knew it was a cause meant to raise awareness and stuff, but I never really understood it. I got a crash course in it tonight, underdressed as I was in moccasins and sweatshirts (hey, I didn't know where we were going or what we'd be doing). My friend Sara took me on the luminary circuit, a pathway lined with paper lanterns (some with tea lights, some with glowsticks) that circled a green dotted with tents and tables, as she explained the whole cause to me.

You may already know this, but I think it's pretty cool. All day and night, teams have at least one person walking the luminary circuit, while the others either walk, sleep in the tent, or other activities to stay awake. Along the way we righted some of the paper bags that had fallen over (fortunately only the ones with glowsticks had been by the chilly wind, the tealights would have caused more of a problem.) After two circuits, I dug enough change out of my purse to buy a relay bracelet, a simple cord with a green bead tied at the end. Each consecutive round, I got a new bead. I walked 12 beads' worth until my feet protested walking on the flat sidewalk in my flat moccasins.

I'm glad I was able to make my small contribution to a greater cancer relief effort that until tonight I really knew very little about. I'm looking forward to this summer when Sara said she'll take me to another Relay and it'll be warm, even at 1 am, and I'll be prepared in walking shoes.

Film-related excitement

The Best Part of Today #116:

Accidental discoveries.

I always love when I stumble upon something really exciting completely by chance (the site stumbleupon doesn't count because its purpose is to broadcast interesting things, therefore it is not accidental). In my case, I am referring to finding out that there's a new Three Musketeers movie coming this year, and it doesn't look half bad. The facts that Logan Lerman is playing D'Artagnan and that Orlando Bloom is doing something else with his life besides playing wimps like Will Turner (he's playing the bad guy) wasn't lost on me.

This also led me to discover that Bloom is reprising Legolas (not a wimp, don't even try arguing with me) in The Hobbit, which is currently filming for release next year!!

Betcha never seen one of these!

The Best Part of Today #115:

Rare hydradil!

As you can see, this is in fact a three-headed daffodil, the horticultural cousin of the mythical Hydra.

Or it could be to normal, one headed daffodils what special four leaf clovers are t0 normal three leaf clovers.

Which do you prefer?

Bonus fatigue removers

The Best Part of Today #114:

Naps.

Naps, like hugs, are usually always good. You could take a nap anytime, but you might be missing something important: lecture material, study time, movie plot development, etc. That's why actually having time to curl and have no other obligations but get a little a more shut-eye is almost as good, if not equal to, the nap itself. Like BPoT #111, it's an instance when what you want and what you need are the same thing.

Never thought I'd say this

The Best Part of Today #113:

Sports.

I am not the biggest sports fan that has ever walked the earth or attended college. But the thing about sports that I like is that it tends not to be a solitary activity to participate in or to watch. People experience a camaraderie completely absent from their day to lives when they are united by sports losses and victories. The victories are more fun to watch, particularly when on a college campus.

I was going to participate in TOMS One Day, but now that my college campus has been utterly trashed, that may be more hazardous to my health than it would have originally been. If you're not in the middle of dangerous terrain (or if you're really brave (or careless)) you should do it too!!!

Home Sweet Home

Despite that being a cliche, I mean it very sincerely.

The Best Part of Today [and Thursday] #112:

Coming home when you're sick.

I was extremely ill. This is not an excuse, but the reason I did not post yesterday was that I was being picked up from school after my late class. By my mother. Who made me chicken soup. I am 20. No shame; that's why it's the best part of today. I am convinced that the reason I feel a million times better than yesterday (not 100% yet, but getting there) is that I slept in my own bed last night, and woke up to a home-made breakfast this morning, and had home made chicken soup for dinner. In bed. It's a luxury people, let me tell you.