12/19/19

i'm thankful that during a video call yesterday one of my coworkers was having internet problems that kept making his screen freeze and just before one of the freezes he asked whether it was the software or his internet and then disappeared and my coworker started to say "looks like it was his internet" and then i lifted my arm slightly and stood very very still and she said "oh, justin is frozen too" and then i exploded into motion with a smile and everybody had a good laugh.

i'm thankful for d's recognition of how much our conversations with other involve one or the other of us doing an impression of miso and how our improve character of miso, who is constantly imploring us to give her the additional food she believes she deserves and talking about her love of butt hygiene, brings joy to our life. i'm thankful that though miso went out in the rain last night and got extremely wet, we both took turns drying her off.

i'm thankful for the cinnamon toast crunch churros cereal, which is a great example of design iteration that's just fundamentally better than a cereal i've always considered a classic because the structural integrity of each mini-churro slows down the inevitable sogging of the cereal, preserving the titular crunch much longer.

i'm thankful for the profile of the safdie brothers in the new yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/the-safdie-brothers-full-immersion-filmmaking) and that their movie good time is on amazon prime video and we watched it last night. i'm thankful for the visual dynamism of it, for the dedication to guerilla location shoots and the authentic textures that adds, for the  variety of performances and breakneck pace.

i'm thankful for d's facetime with her best friend h last night, since i enjoy h and got to participate in the conversation while playing video games. i'm thankful, after d spent so much of her life with friends who didn't appreciate her to the degree that i believe she should be appreciated, for how refreshing it is that h asks her questions about her life so genuinely out of interest and affection and keeps coming back to things she wants to learn about from d. i'm thankful for h's house rule that there should always be two different flavors of ice cream in her freezer.

i'm thankful that though i have an early meeting this morning, there's a gap between that meeting and my next meeting that's long enough for me to do my usual workout. i'm thankful, even though it's felt kind of weird after being slammed for so long, to have a little bit of breathing room at work. i'm thankful that ec's mom sent some gifts for her cat with the a post-it card that read "meowie christmas" and i'm thankful that because her mom was at thanksgiving, i can hear it in her voice in my head.