curtsying and lunging
i'm thankful for the internet archive, which performs a number of serious essential services but i am particularly thankful because last night we used it to look (through the magic of revivified hyperlinks) at a series of websites that deborah made when she was 13 and 14 years old chronicling her favorite things, listing the albums she owned/had downloaded (for ripping/trading), reviewing songs she liked, and exhibiting her art and (multi-chapter) fiction, which made us laugh so much it hurt and which i look forward to revisiting repeatedly in the future. i'm thankful that the trip also triggered a very cute long exchange in the group chat between deborah and ec.
i'm thankful that i was able to recover from a scary thing that happened in one of my feature branches in github, also the github desktop app which i had for reasons completely unknown to me i had never used but is so much better than doing some things through the command line. i'm thankful that a complicated problem in the app migration i'm working on that stumped me was also complicated for the other engineer i asked for help, which is reassuring even if it meant we haven't solved the problem yet (also i'm thankful because i'm trying to build a better relationship with her now that we work more closely together (we have very different communication styles) and i think the collaboration helped in that regard).
i'm thankful for something i do in PR reviews lately which is using the bowing emoji as a gesture of respect for the person reviewing my work and i'm thankful that when i use it there is some wiring in my brain that makes me also physically bow my head in the real world even though nobody can see it (thankful, cringing, to watch myself on recordings of zoom calls trying to politely nod in response to a speaker and looking like i am intentionally giving myself whiplash and/or a sprained neck). i'm thankful that deborah told me the other day about a particular weight exercise called a "curtsy lunge" which is funny to me because curtsying and lunging seem so tonally opposed.
i'm thankful that a is back after her trip to china and a bunch of people at work are watching love is blind and that in our spoiler thread i posted a bunch of screenshots of the most recent episode with captions featuring hilarious inside jokes about work. i'm thankful there is a new season of survivor and while the amount of people on this season who have little sayings and quips (i hate little sayings and quips!!!) is too high, at the end of the day it's still survivor. i'm thankful for the current wave of tenet revivalism, which as someone who loved(/loves) that movie and hated oppenheimer is validating. i'm thankful tomorrow we're going to get bahn mi with friends before going to see a matinee of dune 2 together.
i'm thankful we've been making really good burritos for dinner this week. i'm thankful for the tortillas deborah got at h-mart which seemed so large to me that i thought they would be one million calories more than the usual smaller ones we buy but then i checked and somehow they are exactly the same number of calories which does not make sense at all but i'm gonna take it (and they're way better than the usual ones). i'm thankful to start each burrito on top of a sheet of aluminum foil and to put a slice of american cheese torn in half at the spine as the base layer, topped with cilantro lime rice, raw onion, sautéed peppers, greek yogurt, guac, and chorizo (additionally for deborah black beans (another new item on the list of Things Reasonable People Love That I Hate: "most beans") and sautéed onions instead of raw). i'm thankful for the important last step of putting the foil-wrapped final package in the air fryer on reheat mode for 5 - 10 minutes to ensure everything is really toasty before you eat (also gives a nice buffer of time to do a few bong hits and put away the burrito ingredients so you don't have to put them away after dinner).