But a few days ago, I had a busy, cheerful shift and felt happily back to business.
I don't believe that it's uncommon to feel happily exhausted after finishing a Byron Walden puzzle.
I felt happily, hazily stuck in the rhythm and pleasure of eating, and a bit unsatisfied thinking of the courses I hadn't finished.
I felt happily defiant in the back seat of the car with the sharp edge of the single jabbing my stomach beneath the sweater.
Such middle-fingered ingratitude felt happily out of place in a guitar scene that has become almost overwhelmingly fey and well brought-up of late.
After the rehearsal, Dean, the stage manager, the actors, interested scholars, civic leaders, and Barthelme superfans convened at a nearby bar for what was billed as a panel on Barthelme but which felt, happily, more like a party.
With our jeans and dusty backpacks, we felt happily out of place among the well-dressed businessmen, and enjoyed people watching as we ate our first mediocre meal in Madagascar.
Their opacity might be why so many people seemed to feel happily nostalgic for music that makes fun of nostalgia and why so many middle-aged women were at the Beacon on Friday night, enjoying songs that can get kind of creepy toward their female characters.
Robinson: I feel (happily!) like gay characters are normalizing.
But here the song also felt happily defiant, a refusal to mellow out no matter the setting.
