1/29/17

i'm thankful that i will earn more money at my new job and i'm thankful that this gave me the opportunity last night to start monthly donations to the aclu, planned parenthood, the southern poverty law center, and the council on american-islamic relations. i'm thankful for d, who i found out early in our relationship donated money to planned parenthood, which i found so impressive and grown-up and awesome. i'm thankful to hope that my donations, which are small but real, will help aid wonderful things like the immigration lawyers working last night to oppose the oppressive, unjust, and racist, policies of our government.

i'm thankful that it feels small and insignificant to be thankful for things that aren't related to the struggle for justice but i'm thankful on the other hand to believe that in darkness we have to try to find things that make us feel tenderness and hope and joy, which are what make life worth living. i'm thankful for sarah hagi and am thankful for sarah hagi and am thankful for sarah hagi. i'm thankful for my new favorite iconic photo of malia obama, which will now form a diptych with my previous favorite iconic photo of malia obama. i'm thankful for this bot, which tweets fragments of anne carson's sappho. i'm thankful that the patterns of oreos incorporate a symbol of the french resistance.

i'm thankful for fleabag, which perfectly balances comedy and sadness. i'm thankful for rise of the tomb raider, which is gloriously kinetic and physical. i'm thankful for the most recent episode of waypoint radio, where the hosts were talking about the ethical choices and difficult feelings involved in a videogame where you play as a police officer and brainstormed the idea of one of the next presidential debates being the candidates playing a videogame as a way of demonstrating how they make difficult choices and solve problems. i'm thankful also for their discussion of which videogames to send to aliens as representations of human civilization (i'm thankful they included journey).

i'm thankful for the new kiosk at the deli at the supermarket, where you can put in your order and then pick it up when you're about to leave the store. i'm thankful to avoid the awkward social interaction where the deli employee comes to you with a slice of meat on a piece of wax paper and you have to either eat the meat or tell them that you don't want to eat the meat, both of which i find uncomfortable for some stupid reason i can't even begin to unpack right now. i'm thankful that though i almost forgot to buy bread for our sandwiches, i remembered as we were pushing our cart to the car and ran back to get it. i'm thankful for caramel corn and i'm thankful to brush my teeth after eating it.