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thank you notes (madeleine)

March 3, 2016

i’m thankful for acropolis cups. those ones with the fake (almost offensive?) greek lettering that says WE ARE HAPPY TO SERVE YOU. i’m thankful that they...

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March 3, 2016

i'm thankful that i only felt really shitty for about two hours yesterday afternoon, which is a personal best so far this week. i'm thankful that while we...

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March 2, 2016

i'm thankful that i felt really shitty again yesterday, like all my chakras were stuffed with garbage, because i can tell that i feel ever so slightly better...

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March 1, 2016

i'm thankful that i felt really depressed yesterday afternoon and evening, the most depressed i have in a while, even though that sucked. i'm thankful that i...

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February 29, 2016

i'm thankful that the plastic grocery bags d and i loaded with library books that needed to be returned seemed like they were going to break under the weight...

thank you notes (fsa)(2)

February 29, 2016

i’m thankful for mondays. for today especially, for when the morning sky revealed itself crisp and clear and blue like only winter lisbon skies are. i’m...

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February 28, 2016

i'm thankful that over the last few nights, d and i watched the three star wars prequels. i'm thankful that despite my boyhood love of star wars, this...

thank you notes (L)

February 27, 2016

I'm thankful for our new bedframe and mattress that we were able to buy late last year, which unlike the old one doesn't collapse if you lean on the wrong...

thank you notes (fsa)

February 26, 2016

i'm thankful for the sense of smell and normality.i'm thankful for the way i always linger between hating and loving the alarm clock in the morning. i'm...

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February 26, 2016

i'm thankful i asked a faculty member who butchered a deer that he found dead on the side of the road last week to give me some of the deer meat. i'm...

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February 25, 2016

i'm thankful that yesterday afternoon, i defused a tense exchange about a grant budget between a faculty member and the office accountant by 1) noting that...

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February 24, 2016

i'm thankful for the anonymous person who sent me this note through my google form last night:"this isn't a thank you note (soz) but i've been reading yours...

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February 23, 2016

i'm thankful that our neighbors' band was rehearsing extra loud last night. i'm thankful that when we first moved in, i thought i would find their rehearsals...

thank you notes (anonymous)

February 22, 2016

I used to think of gratitude as a cloying manipulation, something you were told to feel about a situation in response to raising a complaint or a sentimental...

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February 22, 2016

i'm thankful for chapter 21 of this should be written in the present tense by helle helle, the book i'm currently reading, which is, in full: "One day I went...

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February 21, 2016

i'm thankful that i don't really believe in the secret, but thankful that if i did, i might see an example of its power in the moment that happened to me on...

thank you notes (k)

February 20, 2016

i’m thankful for the coffee cart in the hallway right outside my office which saves me from having to drink the overbrewed folgers that my coworkers take...

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February 19, 2016

i'm thankful to provide an update on the one hundred branded cooler bags that a faculty member ordered to give away to attendees at a conference, but that...

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February 18, 2016

i'm thankful that though my endoscopy/sensor installation procedure was scheduled for noon yesterday and though the procedure only takes about 15 minutes...

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February 17, 2016

i'm thankful for breakfast cereal, always, but especially today because i can't have it because i'm not supposed to eat before my endoscopy, which is at...