pleasantly surprised

All right, I have to admit that this is a new and novel experience. Due to the fact that we currently have other people helping out with the cross-mapping cycle, we are currently on schedule without having to work ourselves to the bone for it and barely hitting the deadlines.

I could get to like this.

I could get to believe it will work.

(Of course there will be other work to take its place, because such is the great law of How Things Go, but still...)