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so i've figured out the volume on my music in the morning usually correlates to how excited i am to go to work. loud volume = don't want to go or i'm on my way home (i just want to be home). quiet volume = i feel like i can handle it and i want to talk to all the bus drivers, etc.

today was surprisingly a low volume day.

i'm really not sure why.
maybe because it's jean friday?
maybe because the sun's out? i walked to bus #1 with the sun on me and i actually said out loud, "thank you sun, for shining today."
maybe because i'm finishing another book?
maybe it's because i get to teach a mission specialist a new cart at work?
maybe it's because i have something to do at work?

whatever it is it's definitely not because it's 0 degrees outside. this is not an exaggeration, unfortunately. i looked at the school, which has the temp up all the time on my walk home from the gym and it said 02°. brrrrrrrr!

as i dreaded emerging from the red line i looked around to see the entire entrance to the el decorated for valentine's day. i noticed some in the little box for the worker earlier, but now it's all over the entry thingys too. i laughed a little bit. i've never been a big supporter of valentine's day, but i like that this person is =)
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