thank you notes 5/27/16
i'm thankful for videos of "insane domino tricks," which are always satisfying mental furniture. i'm thankful for the way that a run of dominoes has a narrative. i'm thankful that in a world where most cameras are handheld, dominoes videos are instead a series of locked down shots with the movement happening inside the frame. i'm thankful for the way that this tiny simple repeated object, a rectangular prism, can be deployed in so many different variations and directions, to create waterfalls that become images on carpet. i'm thankful for jacques tati.
i'm thankful that while i was typing the first paragraph in an email draft, a promotional email for domino's pizza popped up behind the edit window in my inbox. i'm thankful to recognize that this coincidence might not be a coincidence at all, and to be wary of the data state and of the state of my data. i'm thankful to not get too tinfoil hat and know there are multiple vectors that could explain the arrival of the email besides google reading my mind as i type, such as the fact that if we order domino's, we normally order it on a friday evening and it is friday evening.
i'm thankful that the insidiousness of this is a difference of degrees and not of kind, but also thankful sometimes to be reminded of the fact that i might want to skip making dinner and order a pizza. i'm thankful i have already been baking a potato for an hour and so will fight the urge and instead make a kale salad to have with the potato. i'm thankful we've been trying to only eat fruit for dessert this weak but i was stressed last night and ate a sleeve of mint oreos, which i don't even really like.
i'm thankful for the nicki minaj's "girls fall like dominoes," which is such a lovely joyful friday evening kind of song. i'm thankful for the episode of call chelsea peretti with yassir lester and jerrod carmichael where they listen to "truffle butter" and when drake pauses after singing "pretty women, are you here right now," chelsea says "yes." i'm thankful for a new surprise summer-themed edition of thread, which reminded me of a similar thing i experienced on a beach once. i'm thankful for the laminated anxiety card that claire found in her childhood home. i'm thankful she's going to see beyonce with her mom this weekend
i'm thankful that it is five o'clock on a friday, which means i should stop working right now, since i'm in overtime. i'm thankful to recognize that this is work that i love, and that enriches my life, but also thankful to know when to stop and go into the kitchen and make a salad for dinner. i'm thankful that it is friday, which gives me another excuse to have a dessert. i'm thankful to not set my alarm tonight, even if i will probably wake up without it at about the same time. i'm thankful to go to bed tonight after reading too late and wake up with saturday as an open field stretching out to the horizon in front of me.
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