11/28/19

i'm thankful that i do not usually have a meeting at 7 am, since that is early for a meeting, but i'm also thankful that if i had to have a meeting at 7 am, i had it yesterday, because yesterday i woke up at 3:30am awash in stress and did not get much sleep anyway.

i'm thankful that i don't have work today or tomorrow or on the weekend. i'm thankful that i had a nice meeting with s, who started the meeting by saying he thought he was going to have to dip out of our regular meeting for other obligations but then over the course of the nice meeting changed his mind and said that actually, we should keep meeting, why would we stop.

i'm thankful that though i do not really like thanksgiving food, i do really like my friends and i'm going to get to have thanksgiving dinner with them. i'm thankful that we have an easy dish to make, which are roasted brussels sprouts with optional nam pla (i'm thankful for me the nam pla is not optional and i'm going to fucking douse my entire plate with it like i always do).

i'm thankful for the mandalorian, even though i have never really cared much for westerns, because it's well-paced and interesting to look at. i'm thankful for werner herzog's love of baby yoda. i'm thankful for baby yoda's delicate little hairs. i'm thankful that there is finally some romance on this season of terrace house (after a season where the house has had uncharacteristically meh chemistry) and it is tender and sweet.

i'm thankful that d and i were listening to the office ladies podcast and in their discussion of a particular episode, they referred to a deleted scene, and we discovered that there are hours of office deleted scenes scraped off DVDs onto youtube.

i'm thankful for the strangeness of realizing that for a show i've seen all the episodes of multiple times, there's still tons of stuff that i haven't seen. i'm thankful, watching the scenes, to see that they were mostly deleted for a reason, because they are not as funny as the things that show up on the main show, but i'm thankful for them nonetheless, as fragmentary remnants of this alternate reality.