12/18/19

i'm thankful that though i have an appointment that i'm nervous about this morning, i know that whatever happens, it's going to be okay. i'm thankful to have hope and a sense of possibility. i'm thankful for deep belly breathing.

i'm thankful for the photo book that d gave me for my birthday which compiles pictures of us throughout our relationship and which i got down and flipped through with her after dinner last night. i'm thankful that we came across a picture of miso from the week we got her sitting with her front legs crossed, which isn't something i'd realized she'd done for as long as we've had her.

i'm thankful that i had a nice video call with my coworker t, who is such a sparkling presence in my life and a joy to work with. i'm thankful that we got to a point we needed to get to on a project we'd been working on that had been a big problem for both of us. i'm thankful that we can talk about food and cooking and that today i'll get to check in to see whether the spaghetti she made (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/red-wine-pasta-sauce-elena) turned out well. i'm thankful that we also taked about watchmen, which she says as a vietnamese person is the first american tv show she's seen that really gets vietnam right, and she taught me about how trieu is based on a real figure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Triệu). i'm thankful for elephants.

i'm thankful for living with yourself, which we finished watching last night and which was so good, funny and cringey and thought-provoking and deeply weird. i'm thankful for paul rudd's performance, which is great, and for aisling bea, who was also good in the fall and who has some really great extreme close-up face acting in this show. 

i'm thankful that after hitting several dead ends, i figured out a way to engineer something related to cookie management that i thought i wasn't going to be able to solve myself. i'm thankful that today i'll have the time to go in and make the code cleaner and write some tests.

i'm thankful the house is going to vote to impeach the president.