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thank you notes 5/19

i'm thankful that d left her computer in our hotel room while she was at the conference. i'm thankful for that, and thankful that she told me her password,...

i'm thankful that the fog is starting to lift. i'm thankful that i'm starting to feel again. i'm thankful for lamotrigine and amitriptyline which seem to be...

thank you notes (k)(2)

i’m thankful for the fact that i don’t own a microwave, which i only ever miss when i need to reheat leftovers. so i’m usually forced to choose between...

thank you notes 5/17

i'm thankful to have recorded today's notes at the indianapolis airport: https://soundcloud.com/songsabout/tuesday-09-54-am-1

thank you notes 5/16

i'm thankful for my parents' subscription to hbo go, which since game of thrones started has made sunday nights a thing to look forward to rather than to be...

thank you notes 5/15

i'm thankful for lilypebbles and viviannadoesmakeup, two uk makeup bloggers/vloggers that d and i follow, for the things their recent videos have made me...

thank you notes 5/14

i'm thankful for this passage from sarah bakewell's at the existentialist cafe that i read last night before falling asleep:"Letting-be became one of the...

thank you notes 5/13

i'm thankful that i now have a toothbrush in the top drawer of my desk at work and that i use it sometimes in the afternoons if my teeth or my mouth feel...

thank you notes 5/12

i'm thankful that i wore a bright green uniqlo t-shirt with a copy of an andy warhol copy of a brillo pad advertisement to work today. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes 5/11

i'm thankful for the sketch on the most recent episode of inside amy schumer which shifts from a group of middle aged guys at a sports bar watching a...

thank you notes 5/10

i'm thankful that grimes remixed "california" for the video, which came out yesterday. i'm thankful, even though i like the way the album version bangs rough...

thank you notes 5/9

i'm thankful to recognize the german word feeling of being near the end of a book i'm enjoying when i have a bunch of other new books that i'm excited to...

thank you notes 5/8

i'm thankful that i installed our new air conditioner in the living room window. i'm thankful that though i finally was granted return authorization through...

thank you notes (fsa)(9)

i am thankful for change.i’m thankful for how everything changes and stays the same at the same time: how the fact that i am now married, have moved from one...

thank you notes 5/6

i'm thankful that one of the visiting lecturers successfully defended her dissertation this week. i'm thankful that every time i've seen her since, i've...

thank you notes (5/5)

i'm thankful that today i've been writing these notes for six months. i'm thankful for the things that i've learned about myself and other people and art and...

thank you notes (esmé)(5)

I'm thankful for the copper bird feeder outside our kitchen window. I'm thankful for the squirrel(s) we named León who may, in fact, be more than one. We...

thank you notes 5/3

i'm thankful for cantaloupe, which was on sale again at the grocery store this week. i'm thankful for the fun of scooping out the gooey innards and trimming...

thank you notes 5/2

i'm thankful for the documentary finders keepers, which is on netflix and which we watched over the weekend. i'm thankful that the movie takes place in a...

thank you notes 5/1

i'm thankful that when i woke up this morning, it was sunny outside and when i checked the forecast, the rain that was supposed to fall in the morning had...

thank you notes(kflo)(3)

i'm thankful that on friday, my grandmother and i's city hall legal transactions were finished after enduring the hassles and inconveniences of marching on...

thank you notes (katelyn)

I’m thankful for to-do lists, how they can be broken down into smaller and smaller tasks until the biggest & most impossible project seems mostly manageable....

thank you notes 4/29

i'm thankful that the faculty member's daughters were more rambunctious than he had hoped they would be. i'm thankful that he had hoped that they would sit...

thank you notes 4/28

i'm thankful that when i came out onto the loading dock to get my bike after work yesterday, there were hundreds of students waiting in long lines that...

thank you notes (L)(3)

I’m thankful for S & J, who consistently surprise me with their material kindnesses and friendship, particularly since on a basic level they are ‘a guy I met...

thank you notes 4/27

i'm thankful that today is administrative professionals' day, which meant that we had stale bagels and coffee in the office at 8:30am and i did not have time...

thank you notes 4/26

i'm thankful for the faculty member who walked his bike into the office yesterday morning, sweat-soaked but smiling. i'm thankful that he talked about how he...

thank you notes 4/25

i'm thankful that after several days of responsible kale salads, i made us cheeseburgers and hash browns for dinner on saturday night. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes (helene)

I'm thankful that I share my surname (Pertl) with my grandmother, thanks to my mother keeping it and passing it to us along with sole parent status on our...

thank you notes 4/24

i'm thankful to have nailed a folded up blanket over our front window so the glare of its white light wouldn't distract from lemonade. i'm thankful for the...

thank you (fsa)(8)

i am thankful for j. i am thankful that he is my world, my better half, the most handsome man to have ever walked this earth, with all of his quirks and...

thank you notes (c)

i’m thankful that last night i got to celebrate the first night of passover with a family which has largely become my second family. i’m thankful that...

thank you notes 4/21

i'm thankful for the fun irony of how wearing my tightly-cinched heavy military poncho to keep me dry from the light rain on my ride to work caused me to...

thank you notes 4/22

i'm thankful that i am ready to claim that i am legit sick and it isn't just my allergies anymore. i'm thankful, even though it sucks to be sick, because in...

thank you notes 4/20

i'm thankful that there is a justin wolfe who runs a marijuana store/growing operation in colorado and i occasionally get emails intended for him checking up...

thank you notes (esmé)(4)

I'm thankful that I'm on a job that could be categorized at the very top of my "worst jobs ever worked" list. I'm thankful that it makes me recognize the...

thank you notes 4/18

i'm thankful, since it's gotten up to 80 the past few days, that i reinstalled our old bedroom window-unit air conditioner yesterday. i'm thankful that i...

thank you notes 4/17

i'm thankful for the amazing race, which i hadn't watched for maybe almost a decade but which i have decided is the perfect show to watch while running on a...

thank you notes (sydney)

i'm thankful for being able to wake up every morning and go to my school, which is hard but reward, i love it here.i'm thankful for having a group of girls...

thank you notes (JHE)

I'm thankful that I met him, I guess I am, I'm thankful that for a while he made me very happy before he made me very sad. I'm thankful that he made me...

thank you notes 4/15

i'm thankful that when i was getting clothes together for a load of laundry yesterday evening, i accidentally hit the "2x" speed button for the podcast i was...

thank you notes 4/14

i'm thankful that one of the visiting lecturers taught a faculty member, who is about to move into a new house, that feng shui is not only about the...

thank you notes 4/13

i'm thankful that the shopping list for my after work grocery store trip was, in full, "gushers and kale," which reminded me of the poem "all the single...

thank you notes 4/12

i'm thankful that one of my favorite writers, ruth curry, started a tinyletter yesterday called coffee & tv. i'm thankful for the first issue of the...

thank you notes (julia weston)(2)

I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am thankful for my panic attacks. I am trying to be thankful.I am thankful for the...

thank you notes 4/11

i'm thankful for the waves of heavy rain that bled through the night into this morning. i'm thankful for the soft sound of rain falling on the grass and for...

thank you notes 4/10

i'm thankful for the slight internal resistance i've felt to writing my notes today, even though it made me feel slightly unhappy. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes (kflo)(2)

i'm thankful for the entirety of creation, even though i have no solid basis of the ""who?"" of creation. i'm thankful for people, for their capacity to...

thank you notes (tj)

i’m thankful for the paper towel dispenser in the men’s room nearest my office. now when i pull down on a starchy, white towel i know that i have to use both...

thank you notes 4/8

i'm thankful for the experience of converting the in-text citations in a faculty member's tenure dossier from endnotes to APA parentheticals was one of the...