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October 9, 2016

I'm thankful for starting back at work after the summer. I'm thankful that I am teaching so much more this year, not only for financial reasons but also...

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October 8, 2016

i'm thankful for the most recent issue of laura owen's tinyletter, which is about facebook groups where women buy, sell, and trade baby clothes and...

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October 7, 2016

i'm thankful that the hurricane was more whimper than bang here. i'm thankful that the worst that happened was us losing cable for most of the day and power...

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October 6, 2016

i'm thankful for how much my parents care about seeing the weather forecast on the local TV news. i'm thankful, since i've gotten all my weather info from...

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October 5, 2016

i'm thankful that i spent less of yesterday in a shitty mood. i'm thankful that this is despite the day starting off a bit poorly when, on a leisurely...

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October 4, 2016

i'm thankful to be hopeful that i will not spend part of today in a shitty mood as i have every other day of vacation. i'm thankful for the shitty irony of...

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October 3, 2016

i'm thankful that i don't feel in as poor of a mood as i did for long stretches of yesterday. i'm thankful to have not wanted to be in a poor mood for long...

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October 2, 2016

i'm thankful that though i didn't get my parents' wifi password, i can write this in a text editor offline and send it to you later. i'm thankful for sublime...

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October 1, 2016

i'm thankful to be writing these notes from the gate of our flight to atlanta, where we'll get on a flight to fort lauderdale and will then get picked up my...

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September 30, 2016

i'm thankful for hillary's great burn of gary johnson, which brought me great joy this morning. i'm thankful to posit that maybe the reason that gary johnson...

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September 29, 2016

i'm thankful that d is a boss and got a raise after her excellent annual review. i'm thankful my mom got an interview for a new job and that d and i shared...

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September 28, 2016

i'm thankful i slept well last night. i'm thankful that yesterday evening, i was pretty sure i had an ear infection, probably because of swimming in the lake...

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September 27, 2016

i'm thankful that we're trying a new strategy at work this week in the hope of reducing everyone's stress levels. i'm thankful to be trying the new strategy,...

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September 26, 2016

i'm thankful that even though it's monday, i'm happy because i know that next monday, i'll be on vacation. i'm thankful that it rained overnight and that...

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September 25, 2016

i'm thankful to have slept past 8 yesterday morning and then again this morning. i'm thankful, though i usually wake up earlier and like waking up earlier,...

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September 24, 2016

i'm thankful that after several long days of disrupted routines, of late nights and early mornings and labor physical, intellectual, and emotional, d and i...

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September 23, 2016

I'm grateful for the Great British Bake Off. I don't even watch the show. But I love how so many people around the world can get so madly excited and...

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September 22, 2016

i'm thankful we stayed out late, first at a bar and then, after a trip to the big liquor store, in one of my coworkers' hotel rooms. i'm thankful that d and...

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September 21, 2016

i'm thankful for maureen dowd's hilarious assertion that donald trump would use the word "frisson" or even a coarser word that could be translated to...

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September 20, 2016

i'm thankful that i forgot to set my alarm last night and so we woke up twenty five minutes after it should have gone off. i'm thankful that's okay because...