HAPPY THOUGHTS

Labor-market institutions and working-class strength...got anything to add to that?????

Just kidding of course. I have that topic under control, it is just one of the many issues we are covering and hoping to apply the theories of public policy to. And taking this class makes me happy. That is what I am focusing on--HAPPINESS :) Who doesn't love it? SCROOGE? No, Tiny Tim got under his skin in the end so I can't think of anyone else. So that is my quest, one of them, I should say, while here in Budapest. So to accomplish this task I am doing a number of things. For instance, I am:

1. learning spanish mas bueno (i think)
2. going swimming at the pool
3. stopping randomly in different synagogues on the way to school and just sitting and enjoying
4. enjoying nights at the opera, just a block from my apartment
5. a member of an "eating club" that converses over great food with great company once a week
6. eating lots and lots of sweets...for breakfast
7. "sauntering"
8. taking baths
9. texting uncontrollably
10. downloading obscene amounts of samba music
11. not thinking
12. thinking

and all because these things make me HAPPY. You may have read my list and laughed outloud and wondered why you stay in contact with me, but then again, you may have read my list and thought "I love "sauntering" too!". Whatever makes you happy, I hope you do it. Please find some time. A close friend recently told me too much analysis leads to paralysis (she's Greek and thinks that little lines like that which rhyme are really great and so tries to use them as much as possible. I think they are annoying). I agree with this. Too much thought about the wrong things lead only to dwelling and regret. It is in these times of transition and growth that is most important that we learn these things. This lesson though took me at least 10 times to learn, I hope you learn it much more quickly.

Please go enjoy your day :)