7/23

i'm thankful that made me think of how much of my life, when i worked at the university, was walking up and down hallways, how many times every day i walked up a hallway (to drop off a document, to go to the bathroom, to help a student find a classroom, to go to a meeting, to go to the gym to work out) and back down it, how many times i walked the loop of hallway in our part of the building simply for the pleasure of getting up and walking. i'm thankful to realize that though i don't think i need the social interaction that gets some people who work at my job to work from coffee shops or coworking spaces, that i do miss these micro movements within my day and i should try more to do something to take their place. i'm thankful every day, though, that i don't have to use a public bathroom anymore.

i'm thankful for carrots, which are useful cheap padding for a pan of more expensive root vegetables for roasting. i'm thankful that though i hated carrots when i was a child, i find them tolerable as filler and even occasionally enjoyable in and of themselves as an adult. i'm thankful to be reading circe, after d devoured it during her business trip. i'm thankful that though mythology is not usually an area of interest for me (and is definitely not an area of knowledge), and though i tend to be wary of first person narrators who are not of the "this is auto-fiction i am kind of or mostly the author" variety, the book is captivating and resonant.

i'm thankful for the raspberry ricotta cake, which was as good as i remembered it.