An awesome day ... in some respects

I had a really great day today. This week has been a bit of a struggle, I had a nightmare half way through the week about a man wearing one of those black cloaks (sp?) from Harry Potter (the ones where he can put it on and no one else can see him). Only the man was a stranger in my house and was about to do something bad to me. I woke up sweating at that point and had to turn the light on. I also noticed (not surprisingly) that my neck hurt a bit.

Yesterday we got a duvet (finally). I'm really happy about it cause that's what we're both used to now, Cam's not good with sheets most of the time (as in he doesn't use them) and we both move around so much it's practically useless not to have a duvet. For those of you who may not know a duvet is where you have your comforter in a sheet so you can clean it very easily. It's really nice. We also got a router for the Internet but it's Net Gear (apparently not a well known brand and definitely not recommended). I tried it many a time on the computer and it wouldn't install once. So now I'm going to trade it in for Linksys.

Today Richard, Sara, Margo and I went to Margo's synagogue for a lecture by David Gilbert on his book Stumbling on Happiness. It was an awesome lecture about how different things make people happy or not. It was interesting because he did most of it from a scientific point of view as to what makes you happy. For example, he said that if you go to a no-hitter baseball game and your team wins at the bottom of the 9th with a home run you have scientifically wasted your time as you spent 90% of the game completely bored to tears. However, the person who went to see that game may think to themselves that it was the best game they'd ever seen as they only remember that last part of the game going away from it. It's a bit hard for me to explain but I really enjoyed the lecture, he had a lot of really funny references and examples and definitely knew his audience really well. I would suggest you read the book as that's what I want to do myself. I started it before going to the lecture but didn't have time to finish it.

After the lecture we picked Cam up and went to Breadmen's for lunch before going to the Carrboro Music Festival. The festival was really awesome, I think it was quite fun for Cam (and the rest of us) to be able to walk around and see everyone else outside, selling books, having a bake sale, selling homemade lemonade and just chilling all over town as they listened to different music groups. We walked around and heard groups at 5 or 6 different venues. At one of the venues there were two people there with hula-hoops and they were passing them around for the crowd to use so we got to see people from kids all the way up to older adults. It was a very festive place and definitely more people than I've seen in Carrboro in a while. They had Weaver Street closed off as a walking street which was pretty nice.