Small animals will flock to you!

• ME: I walked home from work today
  ANNA: You should have told me, I would have walked with you!
  ME: It is just as wonderful as you foretold
  ME: I discovered many interesting things in the aboveground world
  ME: Did you know there's a used bookstore between the creepy bridge and the bird cafe?
  ANNA: What are you talking about?
  ME: Also there is an elephant graveyard.
  ME: ...I might not have taken the most efficient route.
  
  
• The squirrels in the Public Garden are not afraid of people. Today one was approaching me, so I stood very still to see how close it would come. Six inches. I stared it. You'll blink first, my friend. An inch. Right up to my foot. ONTO my foot. Okay, you win.
  
  
• Cranky NPR Show Quote of the Day: "New research is uncovering some surprising benefits to happiness."