Ten very good things :-)

• I woke up this morningafternoon to a huge pile of really lovely e-mails: news that a care package had arrived & is being appreciated; one of the best compliments I've ever received; and so on.
  
• In spite of the impression given above, I'm actually managing to shift my sleep cycle toward the marginally-more-sensible.
  
• I won an auction on eBay for more perfume (at way below the going rate), some of which I firmly expect to love, at well below the going rate...
  
• ... and I pulled up my courage (and my socks) and sent an e-mail to a creator of perfumes who are already working with [a particular author], and said: so, I would buy every single one of a range of perfumes based on [a particular work]. And the creator-of-perfumes e-mailed back saying THAT IS A FANTASTIC IDEA I WAS MEANING TO TALK TO [AUTHOR] ABOUT A POSSIBLE AUTUMN RANGE HAVE YOU SUGGESTED THIS TO THEM, and I wrote back to say: no, but I shall, and BY THE WAY have you noticed that [work] has an autumnal theme! And then I e-mailed [author], and if I am very lucky, come this autumn an entire range of perfume will exist because I asked for it. -- I, er, appear to have acquired a new & fairly serious hobby since Wednesday...
  
• My mum swung by, and we had a chat about this and that and the other in the glorious spring breeze and the glorious golden late-afternoon sunshine.
  
• I managed self-care! Shower and hair-washing AND an approximately reasonable number of meals AND washing up! And a very nice risotto it was too, and I am still extremely excited that I managed to pick up a box of parev chicken-flavoured stock, because that stuff is amazing, okay.
  
• Having established that living alone isn't actually awesome for me, I have... tentatively arranged to flat-share with an existing friend next year, assuming that the university keeps being crap. I am very hopeful about this :-)
  
• I have finished the body of the shawl currently on the needles, and have started the lace edging! It is addictive.
  
• Slightly to my shock, I am having a burst of positivity over the lit review (which aforementioned has been the source of most of my recent insomnia).
  
• Raspberries. Frozen & sorbet. :-)