Archive (Page 11) • thank you notes • Buttondown

September 18, 2019

on the last day of the company retreat i sat on a balcony with a friend talking about the emojis most associated with different people and he said mine was...

September 4, 2019

not feeling guilty when i don't do these, just feeling glad when i dofeel behind because i didn't work on monday, yet still glad i didn't work on...

September 3, 2019

August 30, 2019

lying on the hardwood living room floor without any lights on looking up at the ceiling and listening to d’s resequencing of lover...

August 30, 2019

and then realizing that ALSO lana’s new album is out now (https://open.spotify.com/album/5XpEKORZ4y6OrCZSKsi46A?si=4YEhWKpRRF-NAFm-XsCQFg) and immediately...

August 29, 2019

dms with k and a set of instructions from the kind engineer unblocked a problem i’d been stuck in for weekswrote some good codebachelor in paradisemango sorbet

August 28, 2019

i’ve gotten to focus and accomplish something i can be proud of more days than less latelyair conditioning in our bedroom on a 95 degree daymiso is too tired...

August 26, 2019

a fun TV party at e's apartment where i wore lounge ware realizing you can get mcdonalds delivered, sandwiches made from glazed donuts, cheese, and...

August 23, 2019

the video for "lover" by taylor swift (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo), which, in its sickly sweet disposable plastic candy take on a small and...

August 22, 2019

on one of the multiple times a day where, while in an absent-minded fugue state, i put my phone or kindle or water or glasses somewhere and then it becomes...

August 21, 2019

that taylor swift song from yesterday still (also "looking for america" by lana del rey)metafilter link roundup about "secondary edible parts" for various...

August 20, 2019

miso had a bath and it's always cute to see a wet dog, how transformed they are by the simplest of elements, and that we penned her out on the back deck...

August 19, 2019

jillian by halle butler, which i read in one sitting in bed this morning and which is so hilariously agonizingly real

August 16, 2019

new issue of famous people (https://famouspeople.substack.com/p/famous-people-47-join-or-die) a great time in the best weathermiso is getting better at...

August 15, 2019

last night at dinner we were ready to watch this week's bachelor in paradise and it seemed that the last two working HDMI ports on the tv had finally gone...

August 13, 2019

did a load of laundry, filled up my pill organizer for the week, wrote some unit tests for a new feature i'm working onshrimp scampi leftovers, plums and...

August 12, 2019

the mosquito bite inside my belly button stopped itchinga haircut in a folding chair in the kitchen on a saturday morningthere's so much sidewalk around...

August 12, 2019

waking up next to d every day

August 10, 2019

didn't wake up filled with dread todaymade and deployed my first code change on our production codebase (even if it was just adding a string to an array, i...

talking about the simpsons with my friends and being reminded of this bit, which is making me roll with giggleshttps://youtu.be/a_VTvQLAfaE

for david berman, who died yesterday ( https://pitchfork.com/news/david-berman-silver-jews-purple-mountains-dead-at-52/ ) and whose music and poetry have...

every time we meet a new neighbor as soon as the conversation is over i write down their name in my notes app along with what house they live in so that i...

d was great as she always is when i have a panic attack about workthe day at work was better than i had expected, even though there were some frustrating...

not having a garbage disposal anymore isn't so badfrequently asking d questions about whether i can compost certain things, including, most recently "can i...

friend's birthday party at another friend's housevaried, comfortable, and plentiful party seating optionswell-kept shag carpetplaying with a friendly...

i had oatmeal for breakfast with jam and diced peaches stirred inour new microwave has a "start/30 seconds" that works even if there's not currently any time...

e came over and met miso and then we went to dinner with her partnerwhen we were discussing grain percentage in dog food, a topic i just recently googled for...

to have learned from our tv box that "lunette" is the french word for 3d glasses, maybe because of the half-moon shape of the lensesbreeze through a window...

expensive donuts for dinner

today is d's birthday <3 it has been a hard year for her, but things are so much better than they were and i'm proud of how much work she's doneour...

in a dream last night, for some reason i had the range to sing "goodbye, yellow brick road" perfectlyd and i had a nice walk last night through soft summer...

a nearby target, where we got temporary furniture (a couple of chairs and an air mattress) and other vital things to hold us over until our stuff gets to...

being outside in the summer without being bitten by mosquitos (thankful for the lack of humidity and the elevation)that i went hiking with d and my mom...

trail running and trail walkingthat though i had to check in with work yesterday, i didn't actually have to do anything, and i was mostly successful in not...

though we couldn't have miso stay at the house where my parents are cat sitting, we found a fantastic vet tech to watch miso and her last question, as we...

to ride through campus one last time on the airport shuttle heading out of town the movers were fast, quick, and friendly while they moved, watching our...

we finished packing

there's a new khruangbin album which is a dub remix of their perfect first albumthe recently released album of folkie david bowie demos, especially the way...

tw: body image bradley whitford on the handmaid's tale, because he gives a more interesting performance than the other male leads and also because every time...

glassdoor as a way for former employees to tell hard truths about workplaces i have my biannual review today, but i'm not worried about it and did not spend...

when you get out of work and you're in that pre-dinner "what are we going to watch tonight" phase and then remember that your favorite show is on that...

this week's big little lies, even though i had to look up what the ending meantyesterday when i left for my run, there was a cop car parked outside our next...

whenever one of these letters gets bounced back from someone's out of office autoresponder, which always makes me happy because it means the person is having...

this hilarious new article from caity weaver about living like it's 1994 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/enjoy-the-silence.html)the archives of her...

the sound of people shooting off leftover fireworksthe surprisingly great side kale salad at the hot chicken place (also the hot chicken)i stopped miso from...

good day at work yesterday, even though i had lots of meetings (good meetings) and it was a national holidayhad a meeting pair programming and demo-ing a...

d's letter about things she'll miss about bloomington (https://tinyletter.com/deborahkim/letters/things-i-ll-miss-about-bloomington), which are things i'll...

i didn't start the workday yesterday by cryingi can now squash and rebase my git commits without having to look up a tutorial every time and i did two pull...

to try to do this in the time between 7 (when i finish breakfast) and 7:30 (when i get up to take miso out, since the mindfulness meditation i've been doing...

d found my old flip flops in an unopened box in the garagepacking my first few big boxes for the movesexual side effects from increasing my antidepressant...