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7/25
July 25, 2019
in a dream last night, for some reason i had the range to sing "goodbye, yellow brick road" perfectlyd and i had a nice walk last night through soft summer...
7/24
July 24, 2019
a nearby target, where we got temporary furniture (a couple of chairs and an air mattress) and other vital things to hold us over until our stuff gets to...
7/21
July 21, 2019
being outside in the summer without being bitten by mosquitos (thankful for the lack of humidity and the elevation)that i went hiking with d and my mom...
7/20
July 20, 2019
trail running and trail walkingthat though i had to check in with work yesterday, i didn't actually have to do anything, and i was mostly successful in not...
7/19
July 19, 2019
though we couldn't have miso stay at the house where my parents are cat sitting, we found a fantastic vet tech to watch miso and her last question, as we...
7/16
July 16, 2019
to ride through campus one last time on the airport shuttle heading out of town the movers were fast, quick, and friendly while they moved, watching our...
7/14
July 15, 2019
we finished packing
7/13
July 13, 2019
there's a new khruangbin album which is a dub remix of their perfect first albumthe recently released album of folkie david bowie demos, especially the way...
7/12
July 12, 2019
tw: body image bradley whitford on the handmaid's tale, because he gives a more interesting performance than the other male leads and also because every time...
7/11
July 11, 2019
glassdoor as a way for former employees to tell hard truths about workplaces i have my biannual review today, but i'm not worried about it and did not spend...
7/10
July 10, 2019
when you get out of work and you're in that pre-dinner "what are we going to watch tonight" phase and then remember that your favorite show is on that...
7/9
July 9, 2019
this week's big little lies, even though i had to look up what the ending meantyesterday when i left for my run, there was a cop car parked outside our next...
7/8
July 8, 2019
whenever one of these letters gets bounced back from someone's out of office autoresponder, which always makes me happy because it means the person is having...
7/7
July 7, 2019
this hilarious new article from caity weaver about living like it's 1994 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/enjoy-the-silence.html)the archives of her...
7/6
July 6, 2019
the sound of people shooting off leftover fireworksthe surprisingly great side kale salad at the hot chicken place (also the hot chicken)i stopped miso from...
7/5
July 5, 2019
good day at work yesterday, even though i had lots of meetings (good meetings) and it was a national holidayhad a meeting pair programming and demo-ing a...
7/4
July 4, 2019
d's letter about things she'll miss about bloomington (https://tinyletter.com/deborahkim/letters/things-i-ll-miss-about-bloomington), which are things i'll...
7/3/19
July 3, 2019
i didn't start the workday yesterday by cryingi can now squash and rebase my git commits without having to look up a tutorial every time and i did two pull...
7/2
July 2, 2019
to try to do this in the time between 7 (when i finish breakfast) and 7:30 (when i get up to take miso out, since the mindfulness meditation i've been doing...
6/30
June 30, 2019
d found my old flip flops in an unopened box in the garagepacking my first few big boxes for the movesexual side effects from increasing my antidepressant...
6/27
June 28, 2019
the kind engineer, who was truly and exceptionally kind today and helped me have a difficult conversation that i needed to havegroup chat talking about which...
6/25 (2)
June 26, 2019
that my dad got a job as a weed bartenderthat when i saw a skunk approaching miso, i saw a horrific montage in my mind’s eye of the period of time that we...
6/26
June 26, 2019
for evie (https://ohevie.substack.com/p/everything-happened-vol-162)
6/25
June 25, 2019
that miso let me scratch her belly before work this morningrunning up a long hill without stoppingthat d always notices, before i do, when the toilet paper...
6/23
June 23, 2019
a couple of q-tips when the inside of my ears are itchy and/or wet after a showermy last appointment with my psychiatrist here, which ended with 6 months of...
6/19
June 20, 2019
i’m thankful for this post by sarah hagi about going to a garfield-themed restaurant which contains a paragraph that made me laugh more than any paragraph in...
6/20
June 20, 2019
watching d play breath of the wild
6/18
June 18, 2019
i'm thankful that d and i will have been married for four years this week and i'm thankful that i am about to roast a chicken, which must have been one of...
6/16
June 16, 2019
i’m thankful for the famous people newsletter, the most recent issue of which is a breathless hungover ketchupy monologue that so perfectly distills being...
6/13
June 14, 2019
to hear really good news about a friend, who i had been worried about, and how hearing her good news not only made me happy for her, though very much that,...
6/12
June 13, 2019
taking a walk with deborah on my lunch break ritz crackers my friend sam
5/11
June 12, 2019
nice conversation encouraging smart coworker to believe in herself cheesecake for dessert lightning bugs
5/10 (nsfw)
June 11, 2019
tw: asparagus, pee, pornography, semen, internet forums i'm thankful that at the grocery store this weekend they had these thicc asparagus on sale and i...
5/9
June 9, 2019
that when i am running outside in the springtime, i am not absorbing radiation except in the sense that we all are absorbing some from the sun every day of...
6/5
June 6, 2019
i’m thankful for d and my marriage to d, that i took a mental health day today because i really needed it, even though it was hard to do it and i know...
6/4
June 5, 2019
when i look over at d in the late evening and she has fallen asleep sitting up, so peaceful and stillthat i am continuing to do a job that is very difficult,...
5/28
May 29, 2019
that d said the sandwich i made was so good she was sad when it was over
5/27
May 28, 2019
i'm thankful that today at lunch d asked me "do you think you'll ever write thank you notes again?" and i paused, and thought, because i unsubscribed her...
5/25
May 25, 2019
shorts, even though i don't really like any of the ones i have and need to get some new onesputting my work computer in my closet under piles of clothes to...
5/24
May 24, 2019
to have taught deborah the concept of the harlem globetrottersice in a drink when it’s hot
5/22
May 23, 2019
i’m thankful that though i can’t reset the password of my instagram account, i have replaced it with watching ‘the bachelorette’.
5/21
May 22, 2019
that right after d and i closed our eyes started our fifteen minute meditation, i heard miso, who is not the most loving or kind dog, do what sounded like...
5/19
May 19, 2019
allergy medications, particularly zyrtec, benadryl, flonase, and netithose medications making it possible for me to go out into the warm weather and feel the...
5/16
May 17, 2019
rihanna dancing in a bathrobe on instagramthe light on a summer evening after a brief downpour when the clouds parttoday was better than yesterday and that...
5/15
May 16, 2019
i’m thankful that this afternoon i was waiting on a coworker to join my video call and staring blankly at the dark mode text editor where earlier in the...
5/5
May 6, 2019
the golden light of mornings in the spring and summer, especially when experienced from bed, while drinking tea and reading a magazinethat we made a big...
4/30
May 1, 2019
that in couple’s therapy this week d and i both said we felt like we were making progress and things were getting better
4/29
April 30, 2019
plow pose, headstands, and other inversions
4/27
April 28, 2019
i’m thankful we watched the movie mother! since i have not seen a movie that terrible in a long time or honestly perhaps ever and that kind of a extreme...
4/28
April 28, 2019
that i updated some work computer security stuff that i had been meaning to handle but hadn't it took no time and made me glad to have it off my mental to do...
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