When my radio turned on this morning, I was noticing that the playlists were particularly loaded with all this love sentiment. It took me a while before I figured out that the station was on a love-song bender for the day. I got up and shut the damn thing off.

If I peeks over to the “Around this time…” widget on the left I can see I’ve written about V-day a few times. How I feel about today seems to be documented, so I might as well just do a quick roundup.

Happy…Thursday?
How my job has gotten me to associate the day with stress through negative reinforcement.

Red Day
The act of getting through the day, trying not to feel like crap.

Gazing
Astronomy revealing a more romantic bend.

Nice. Well, my situation hasn’t changed since last year. That’s fine because I’ve got a lot more important things to fret over–like my job, the mortgage, and car payments. Still, I can pray for change on occasion. On the BBC News website I read that the RC church in Britain is encouraging people to seek intercession from St. Raphael who’s the patron saint of happy encounters instead of St. Valentine, from whom you’d seek intercession from if you’re already in a relationship. The distinction makes sense, but I didn’t even know it existed.

Perhaps I should take a moment here to draw another distinction. When I say, “I’m fine,” it’s not in the sense of any finality. It’s more of a “I can deal with my situation” type of thing. If changes occur, I will do what I can to welcome them into my life.

As a final note, this is what Phil Booth’s horoscope on The Star says for me today:

Scorpio (Oct. 24 — Nov. 22)

Your mind is racing ahead of where you are. Fear of the future is causing needless anxiety. Given all you’ve got going for you, there is nothing you should worry about. Let a benevolent destiny lead the way.

The appropriateness for today amuses me.