11/27
i'm thankful to be participating in the generational/cultural ritual of watching the gilmore girls revival, even though it is not very good. i'm thankful that even though i knew it was not going to be very good but also to have known that i would have to watch it. i'm thankful to feel that like life, it is something one must just endure, and i'm thankful to find small moments of happiness (and also to find happiness in groaning and complaining about, which is still happiness, and sometimes one of the best kinds of happiness you can access).
i'm thankful for netflix, even though sometimes they ruin things (i'm thankful for the way that the "paul?" jokes in this revival weakly echo the "ann?" jokes in the original arrested development, drawing a line between them)(i'm thankful that this revival is still not as bad as (IMO) the arrested development revival, and am thankful, as someone who generally prefers things to be overlong and overstuffed, even to (what others would see as) their detriment, for the lesson that comedy needs a time limit). i'm thankful to still believe that this would be a net good for the world.
i'm thankful that last year, d watched (for the first time) and i rewatched all of the original gilmore girls, which was quite an enjoyable thing for us to share (i'm thankful to have shared watching it the first time with my mother). i'm thankful for lorelai gilmore's inexplicably awful fashion (i'm thankful, on our last watch, that we conceived of a drinking game where you drink every time she's wearing a shirt with unnecessary ruffles but realized we would die if we actually played), which is moderated but still quite present in the revival. i'm thankful to not idealize rory like i did when i was a shy bookish teenage boy.
i'm thankful for the bath pillow d got me, which i tried for the first time yesterday and which increased the pleasure of an already quite pleasurable thing. i'm thankful for anathem, which is just getting weirder and better. i'm thankful that in advance of our expected excesses next week in chicago, we are eating fish and vegetables and brown rice for dinners this week. i'm thankful to still allow a bit of excess, in the form of the wonderful pumpkin pie that d made. i'm thankful that whipped cream exists.
i'm thankful to have made significant progress on my current personal project. i'm thankful that i have the thing actually working now and the basic UI in place and that all that's left is refining and styling and filling in detail in places i just outlined in the past. i'm thankful for my first successful recursive function. i'm thankful to have learned how to shift() out the first element in an array the way you would pop() out the last element. i'm thankful to have learned you can easily copy the contents of variables out of the chrome console by writing copy(variableName). i'm thankful for the buffering system i came up with to get around a speech API weakness. i'm thankful to have organized and commented my code better than i have in previous projects.
i'm thankful that d is enjoying pokemon sun, especially the feature where you can use your stylus to pet your pokemon. i'm thankful to still be playing terraria, which i will probably be playing forever. i'm thankful for the waypoint podcast, which is a good podcast about video games—i'm thankful for the thoughtful response of the hosts to a question about gaming and class in the most recent episode. i'm thankful for astro poets from dorothea lasky and alex dimitrov. i'm thankful that the audiobook of maggie nelson reading the argonauts is on sale for $4.95. i'm thankful for rauschenberg.
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