thank you notes 8/16

i'm thankful for the procedural joy of capers and heist narratives. i'm thankful for michael crichton's the great train robbery. i'm thankful for a burglar's guide to the city, which probably could have been cut down a bit but thankful that if too many beautiful sentences is a problem i have with a book, it's not a very big problem. i'm thankful for the book i'm currently reading, how to steal the mona lisa, which should have been optioned for so many movies. i'm thankful for the audacity of the heists described, including stealing the UK crown jewels and rodin's thinker. i'm thankful for heat, inside man, le trou, and inception. i'm thankful that because i rode my bike very fast, i got to the pharmacy yesterday before it closed to refill my prozac and amitryptyline prescriptions. 

i'm thankful for hot dogs with manicures (i'm thankful for hot dogs with manicures). i'm thankful that my burrito rolling technique is really improving and thankful that adele had the best burrito of her life so far. i'm thankful for white cheddar flavored rice cakes. i'm thankful for the heat, which has the delightful effect of making the chocolate chips in our cookies perpetually melty. i'm thankful for this article about the influence of "maps" by the yeah yeah yeahs. i'm thankful for the first yeah yeah yeahs album, which i think will always be one of my favorite albums to listen to while running fast.

i'm thankful that yesterday evening while playing our video games, d and i listened to chris evans and jenny slate on the anna faris podcast. i'm thankful that i had never listened to her podcast but i really liked it. i'm thankful that i wondered if there was chris evans and jenny slate erotica and thankful that a little searching indicated there was (NSFW) and it was quite sweet and unique if also ridiculous in the way that almost all erotica is ridiculous (#notallerotica). i'm thankful for the interesting tension in the (little bit of) slash that i've read between on the one hand the author wanting to depict the characters in a full, rounded, and accurate way and on the other hand the author wanting to explore/impose on the characters the particular sexual things that get his or her own personal rocks off.