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thank you notes (c)(3)

August 17, 2016

i’m thankful that i had the opportunity to have—for the first time—taken part in havdalah saturday. i’m thankful for the invitation i received from a family...

thank you notes 8/16

August 16, 2016

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...

thank you notes 8/14

August 15, 2016

i'm thankful that i was distracted by something else today and forgot to write my notes until now. i'm thankful that instead of writing more notes, i am...

thank you notes 8/15

August 15, 2016

i'm thankful that after spending all of last week waiting for a weekend when i could escape from work, i spent most of sunday working on an elective work...

thank you notes 8/13

August 13, 2016

i'm thankful that it's saturday and i'm still in bed. i'm thankful for saturdays when it's nice outside and we can go for walks, but i'm also thankful for...

thank you notes 8/12(nsfw?)

August 12, 2016

i'm thankful for the sex dream i had about taylor swift last night. i'm thankful for how magical the concept of the wet dream sounded to me when i first...

thank you notes 8/11

August 11, 2016

i'm thankful that yesterday was a much better day at work than tuesday. i'm thankful that i tried switching my schedule so that i did yoga in the morning and...

thank you notes 8/10

August 10, 2016

i'm thankful that i continue to find the energy to make myself get up and do my job every day, even though my job continues to be very hard to me. i'm...

thank you notes 8/9

i'm thankful that monday is over. i'm thankful that i helped a very unhappy customer to not feel so unhappy, even if i couldn't fix the problem that made her...

thank you notes 8/8

i'm thankful for break in case of emergency by jessica winter, which i read about half of yesterday. i'm thankful that the book is funny and punny and smart,...

thank you notes 8/7

i'm thankful that it's not supposed to rain today or tonight or tomorrow or tomorrow night, which meant i could take out the trash and sort the recycling...

thank you notes 8/6

i'm thankful, always, for lazy saturday mornings in bed. i'm thankful that i haven't accidentally ripped a hole in our sheets with my heels like i always...

i'm thankful for carina's memory of getting called out by an older girl on xanga for using hurtful feminist stereotypes and how that changed her for the...

I’m thankful for the late-night radio show I’m listening to which appears to be playing lots of songs which remind me of very specific times in my life in...

thank you notes 8/3

i'm thankful that the problems that seemed so impossible on monday night weren't so bad on tuesday morning. i'm thankful that one customer resolved her own...

thank you notes 8/2

i'm thankful that yesterday was mostly a very good day at work. i'm thankful, since the end of the day was suddenly so hard and unpleasant, to remind myself...

thank you notes 8/1

i'm thankful that last friday was the first day of work where i felt like myself at the end of it rather than an empty shell. i'm thankful that at the end of...

thank you notes (c)(2)

i’m thankful for the date i went on last friday and how i still don’t even know whether it can even be considered a date. i’m thankful it’s been in my...

thank you notes 7/31

i'm thankful that my old laptop that i thought had died hadn't died yet. i'm thankful that i was able to get some things that i thought i had lost forever...

thank you notes (esmé)(10)

i'm thankful that j's gone for a few weeks which means it's the longest i've been in our apartment alone since we moved in. i'm thankful that i'm not really...

thank you notes 7/29

i'm thankful that i rolled our burritos well last night. i'm thankful for avocado and thankful for lime juice and thankful for salt. i'm thankful salsa verde...

thank you notes 7/28

i'm thankful that the rain brought slightly cooler temperatures, even though it's still very hot. i'm thankful to have passed two panels of wet sidewalk...

thank you notes 7/27

i'm thankful that one of my coworkers, who started at the company a few weeks before me, direct messaged me yesterday afternoon to tell me she had been...

thank you notes 7/26

i'm thankful that 29 years ago today, d was born. i'm thankful that one time when she was home with her family a few years ago, she used her camera to record...

thank you notes 7/25

i'm thankful that i had a dentist appointment this morning, so i don't really have much time to write these notes. i'm thankful that though i was a little...

thank you notes 7/24

i'm thankful to have paid the $2,433.27 bill for the diagnostic procedure i had for my stomach in the spring. i'm thankful that i put off the bill as i...

thank you notes (esmé)(9)

-7/21 thursday-i’m thankful that i currently feel shit at my job. a few weeks ago i said yes to a full-time position in hopes that it would help me become...

thank you notes 7/22

i'm thankful for how my new job is changing my relationship with the internet. i'm thankful for the weird paradox of how, unlike my old job, my new job is...

thank you notes 7/21

i'm thankful that when my family's first dog, spec, died, i was at college (fall semester, my freshman year) and so didn't have to really experience her...

thank you notes 7/20

i'm thankful for vice principals, the new hbo comedy starring danny mcbride and walton goggins. i'm thankful that it is so hilarious and great and continues...

thank you notes 7/19

i'm thankful for this week's kardashians, which was a nice treat after a too long too hard day at work. i'm thankful for several fun exchanges about food, in...

thank you notes 7/18

i'm thankful that i don't feel as anxious about work as i did at the beginning of last week. i'm thankful that last friday was the first day where i felt...

thank you notes 7/17

i'm thankful that last night d and i watched high rise, a way too long adaptation of the j.g. ballard novel about an apocalyptic class war inside an...

thank you notes (moe)(6)

i'm thankful i had my practice transfer viva today. i'm thankful my colleagues and i call it a mini viva. i'm thankful to realise that some of the fear i...

thank you notes 7/15

i'm thankful for the epic weird dream i had last night, which took place in the same day and yet in multiple seasons (in the front of the house, a beautiful...

thank you notes 7/14

i'm thankful i rescheduled my dinner plans from 6 to 6:30, since i was only finally able to get away from work at 6:27, even though my day was supposed to...

thank you notes (Jerome McLeod)

i’m thankful that Ariel, Nico, and Noelle had a similar mix of feelings that made me feel less alone. i’m thankful that people like Nico exist in the...

thank you notes 7/12

i'm thankful that i got through yesterday, which was my first real day at my new job after my training and the hardest day by far so far. i'm thankful to...

thank you notes 7/11

i'm thankful for the korean mother at wendy's the other day who was paying for burgers for her daughters with pennies from a coin purse. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes (krs)

I'm thankful that the yoga class I was trying to go to this morning was cancelled--or anyways, the doors to the building were locked. I'm thankful that after...

thank you notes 7/9

i'm thankful that d's coworker sent her a 60 count display package of milk chocolate lindor truffles as a surprise gift and thankful that i sneakily shared...

Untitled 2016-07-08

i'm thankful to consider the question of whether gratitude means an acceptance of the status quo, even if that status quo is unjust and evil. i'm thankful to...

thank you notes 7/8/16

i'm thankful for the video my dad sent me last night of our family dog eating an ear of corn. i'm thankful for her excitement at getting to eat corn for the...

thank you notes (moe)(5)

[trigger warning: self-harm]i’m thankful to have survived last week. i’m thankful to remember that last week was one of the hardest of my life. i’m thankful...

thank you notes 7/6

i'm thankful that though i thought we were out of eggs, we weren't, they were just in a different part of the fridge. i'm thankful for the times when you...

thank you notes 7/5

i'm thankful for the line in "fantasy" where mariah sings "i get kinda hectic inside," which feels wrong, because the word "hectic" isn't normally used in...

thank you notes (Esmé)(8)

I'm thankful for turning 31. I'm thankful that my birthday falls on the first of the month and that it divides the year in half. I'm thankful that yesterday...

thank you notes 7/3

i'm thankful for a nice saturday after a long week. i'm thankful that i cleaned the house, even wet swiffering the floor, which i sometimes skip even though...

thank you notes (Sara Black McCulloch)

I'm thankful that this morning, I woke up before my alarm clock—not so that I could be smug about it, but so that I could linger in bed and watch the sun...

tyn (anonymous)

i am thankful that a thing that felt terrible and heavy like a thick viscous substance i had been living through for a while now had lifted, i am thankful...