3/15
i'm thankful to have realized one ridiculous magical thinking curb on my bad behavior, which is that whenever i want to make fun of kendall jenner in a tweet (ever since i heard her mentioned as "candle" jenner i just want to say that all the time) i imagine a totally improbable (yet not impossible!) world in which kim or kourtney or khloe gets into thank you notes and i become their latest lifestyle guru and entourage member and then, while we're hanging out on a yacht in the med, they read my mean tweet about kendall jenner and abandon me in disgust. i'm thankful to pose this as a new strategy for avoiding unnecessary mean tweets, imagining a celebrity you love wanting to be your friend and then reading the mean tweet and deciding that actually they didn't.
i'm thankful for other strategies for handling social media. i'm thankful when we get to see celebrities do normal things like play video games or have opinions on rides at disney world; i'm thankful for this kind of evidence that stars really are just like us (besides of course their enormous wealth and power). i'm thankful that every time laura dern fires her blaster in star wars: the last jedi, she says "pew" because she couldn't stop herself from doing so. i'm thankful for the best movie pitch i have heard in a while. i'm thankful that este haim and i are now the same age.
i'm thankful to have played guitar for the first time in a while last night. i'm thankful that when i opened my personal computer, which i basically only use for recording music and downloading illegal things, it was two hours behind, because, i realized, i hadn't used it since we were in denver and so it was kind of stuck in that time zone. i'm thankful for the way this accident enacts how i feel when i'm playing guitar solos, which is in this special place outside of the normal world (i'm thankful i also meditated again yesterday and it went by faster than it did the previous two days). i'm thankful to have briefly fantasized (i'm thankful i fantasize a lot) of getting stuck in time like my computer, on permanent vacation (which i think is what i'm imagining when i imagine being friends with a celebrity).
i'm thankful for the party stephen hawking held for time travelers. i'm thankful that i don't have to escape from siberia and that, in fact, today, i might take a trip to the north pole.
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