I long ago made my peace with the rampant commercialization of this holiday and the fact that the only peopel who ever give me anything are my parents, so mostly I use it as an excuse to shower love on friends and buy candy on discount.

With that in mind,

Happy Valentine's Day

to all my friends, who I love dearly <3 You guys are great.

And, in the spirit of the day, a little confession - largely has no actual impact on anything, and has probably been guessed already, but hell, it'll be nice to finally share it. Ari - do you remember the conversation we had, I think while driving to C's house at midnight, wherein I swore I'd never have a crush on you? Fate enjoys proving me wrong - a great big fangirly admiring one, too, for about two years. Which kind of mutated into a great deal of respect and admiration come Claudia. Though I still think you're wicked hot. (But, uh, I suspect half the people reading this would agree to that.)

And now, I'm going to go sit around and be a lit geek. Or possibly find chocolate or something.