For example,

On Thursday, after a grueling test, five of us PT girls went to Olive Garden to chow down on some Never-Ending-Pasta-Bowl.  It had been a roller coaster of a day for me, but that meal was definitely a high moment of the day, and I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  At the end, Jill decides to pay for all of us.  ("What?! No, you can't do that!")

After that, as Jill and I drove home, we discovered a bunch of things we have in common and we both got really excited about it.  She tells me, "You know, I picked you out during anatomy and I said, 'I wanna be friends with her.'  We never talked during anatomy but sometimes you can just tell about a person, and I knew I wanted to be friends with you."

Yesterday I was walking around taking pictures of our new house to send to my mom.  I said, "I love our house!"  (I say this almost every day..)  Lauren says, "I love my roommate!"

I went to the grocery store and the check out lines were atrociously long.  But just as I walked up, an employee opened up a new line and along with a bunch of other people, I got in that line.  However, as we all piled into that line, that consequentially made the line right next to us actually become shorter.  A guy standing in the shorter line looks at me and says, "You can go here if you want," pointing in front of him.  I politely decline, however; my line wasn't that much longer.

Then, the guy directly in front of me, who has four or five things in his basket, says, "You can go in front of me."  I say, "Oh no, it's ok."  "No really," he says, "You have fewer things than I do."  I am holding bread and hummus, and it's not like it would have taken him any longer to check out... but I guess the niceness finally got to me, and I went in front of him.

People are so good.

Photo by Marlene Schwandt, my roommate for a month in Nepal.