Archive (Page 33) • thank you notes • Buttondown

thank you notes (helene)

I'm thankful that I share my surname (Pertl) with my grandmother, thanks to my mother keeping it and passing it to us along with sole parent status on our...

thank you notes 4/24

i'm thankful to have nailed a folded up blanket over our front window so the glare of its white light wouldn't distract from lemonade. i'm thankful for the...

thank you (fsa)(8)

i am thankful for j. i am thankful that he is my world, my better half, the most handsome man to have ever walked this earth, with all of his quirks and...

thank you notes (c)

i’m thankful that last night i got to celebrate the first night of passover with a family which has largely become my second family. i’m thankful that...

thank you notes 4/21

i'm thankful for the fun irony of how wearing my tightly-cinched heavy military poncho to keep me dry from the light rain on my ride to work caused me to...

thank you notes 4/22

i'm thankful that i am ready to claim that i am legit sick and it isn't just my allergies anymore. i'm thankful, even though it sucks to be sick, because in...

thank you notes 4/20

i'm thankful that there is a justin wolfe who runs a marijuana store/growing operation in colorado and i occasionally get emails intended for him checking up...

thank you notes (esmé)(4)

I'm thankful that I'm on a job that could be categorized at the very top of my "worst jobs ever worked" list. I'm thankful that it makes me recognize the...

thank you notes 4/18

i'm thankful, since it's gotten up to 80 the past few days, that i reinstalled our old bedroom window-unit air conditioner yesterday. i'm thankful that i...

thank you notes 4/17

i'm thankful for the amazing race, which i hadn't watched for maybe almost a decade but which i have decided is the perfect show to watch while running on a...

thank you notes (sydney)

i'm thankful for being able to wake up every morning and go to my school, which is hard but reward, i love it here.i'm thankful for having a group of girls...

thank you notes (JHE)

I'm thankful that I met him, I guess I am, I'm thankful that for a while he made me very happy before he made me very sad. I'm thankful that he made me...

thank you notes 4/15

i'm thankful that when i was getting clothes together for a load of laundry yesterday evening, i accidentally hit the "2x" speed button for the podcast i was...

thank you notes 4/14

i'm thankful that one of the visiting lecturers taught a faculty member, who is about to move into a new house, that feng shui is not only about the...

thank you notes 4/13

i'm thankful that the shopping list for my after work grocery store trip was, in full, "gushers and kale," which reminded me of the poem "all the single...

thank you notes 4/12

i'm thankful that one of my favorite writers, ruth curry, started a tinyletter yesterday called coffee & tv. i'm thankful for the first issue of the...

thank you notes (julia weston)(2)

I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am trying to be thankful.I am thankful for the...

thank you notes 4/11

i'm thankful for the waves of heavy rain that bled through the night into this morning. i'm thankful for the soft sound of rain falling on the grass and for...

thank you notes 4/10

i'm thankful for the slight internal resistance i've felt to writing my notes today, even though it made me feel slightly unhappy. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes (kflo)(2)

i'm thankful for the entirety of creation, even though i have no solid basis of the ""who?"" of creation. i'm thankful for people, for their capacity to...

thank you notes (tj)

i’m thankful for the paper towel dispenser in the men’s room nearest my office. now when i pull down on a starchy, white towel i know that i have to use both...

thank you notes 4/8

i'm thankful for the experience of converting the in-text citations in a faculty member's tenure dossier from endnotes to APA parentheticals was one of the...

thank you notes(esmé)(3)

i'm thankful i don't have cancer. - esmé (4/8/16).

thank you notes 4/7

i'm thankful to have survived one of the more dangerous bike rides i've taken so far. i'm thankful that the storm didn't look that bad from inside the...

thank you notes (patrick)(2)

i’m thankful that the easter egg my gf bought us last week was extremely good, and that its dark chocolate shell was perfect: neither too bitter nor too...

thank you notes 4/6

i'm thankful that the package from amazon that was supposed to be delivered yesterday was not delivered yesterday (i'm thankful for my hope that it will be...

thank you notes 4/5

i'm thankful for thirstiness, which feels like a useful concept for thinking about the world today. i'm thankful for the way the existential nature of the...

thank you notes (klark)

I'm thankful for the routine. The daily commitments and responsibilities that we have agreed to take on, in order for us to purposely get out of bed each day...

thank you notes 4/4

i'm thankful for the association of small bombs, the novel i started last night, which is great so far. i'm thankful for the strange precision of the...

thank you notes 4/3

i'm thankful that when i finished the dark forest, the sequel to the three body problem, in the bath yesterday, the ending was so surprising and great that...

thank you notes (esmé)(2)

2/29:I'm thankful for the East River Ferry. I'm thankful for the 34th street dock that is bathed in sunlight and even though there's a strong winter-tinged...

thank you notes - fsa*

i'm thankful that this time tomorrow, our correspondent in portugal, fsa, will be (or will be about to be) getting married to the person she loves most! i'm...

thank you notes 3/31

i'm thankful that when i was leaving for work yesterday, i paused at the top of the driveway because i saw a brown bunny burrowing around in the scraggly...

thank you notes 3/30

i'm thankful that i had enough cheddar cheese to double the macaroni and cheese recipe i made on sunday, which means that even though we eat too large...

thank you notes 3/29

i'm thankful that i brought my sit/stand desk down onto my full protein shake at lunch today, dumping all of its sticky vanilla ice cream flavored liquid all...

thank you notes 3/28

i'm thankful i didn't have much time to write notes at work today because i was doing actual work. i'm thankful that i usually have time at work to write...

thank you notes 3/27 (maybe NSFW?)

i'm thankful, on my lovely walk with d through the springtime yesterday, to have remembered my ninth grade biology class. which i hated at the time. i'm...

thank you notes (fsa)(7)

i am thankful for spring. i’m thankful for allergies, for how my skin firmly opposes nature’s reinvention and birth with little angry bumps that i spend all...

thank you notes 3/25

i'm thankful that when i sat down after checking in at the hospital, there was a family gathered around the fish tank in the waiting room, gleefully...

thank you notes (fsa)(6)

i am thankful for how time passing feels different every day. i am thankful that some days feel exceptionally long, with every ounce of [time] palpable,...

thank you notes (L)(2)

I'm thankful for rain. I'm thankful that it's been hot for a long time and the rain is a reprieve from that kind of weather. I'm thankful that I slipped on...

thank you notes 3/23

i'm thankful that i was walking down the hallway yesterday and i noticed two staff members of another department walking ahead of me, side by side, and...

thank you notes 3/22

i'm thankful that i realized that the 500+ electronic study responses that a faculty member received overnight were probably the result of someone employing...

thank you notes 3/21

i'm thankful i called the hospital this morning about the pre-op appointment required for my round 2 sensor installation procedure this thursday, since they...

thank you notes 3/20

i'm thankful for the first dogwood of spring that i saw in bloom, on the lawn of the latino culture center on seventh street as i rode my bike home from work...

thank you notes (fsa)(5)

i am thankful that i’m often thankful for my dreams.i’m thankful that i dreamt the other night of being back in new orleans. i’m thankful for new orleans....

thank you notes 3/18

i'm thankful that i got to watch the first episode of the new season of my favorite tv show, the americans, last night. i'm thankful that in between the end...

thank you notes (kflo)

i'm thankful for magic, or wonder, or charm—whatever you'd like to call it. how everytime i look into people's eyes, i see it. i'm thankful for the time i...

thank you notes 3/17

i'm thankful to have played disc golf with my friend t yesterday on my lunch break. i'm thankful that she has talked often about how much she enjoys it and...

thank you notes 3/16

i'm thankful that last week, one of my favorite faculty members invited my coworker and i to go out to lunch this thursday. i'm thankful that last week, i...