An Incomprehensive List of What I'm Thankful for This Holiday Season, or I Hope John Doesn't Mind that I Used My Email to Him as a Blog Post.

in honor of the very blessed holiday that's coming up on thursday, i will now recount what exactly i'm thankful for, in no particular order:

1. challenges: hell, how would I define myself without 'em?
2. family: hell, how would i define myself without 'em?
   
3. frank-dog: even though my mom just told me he chewed my dining room table that is stored at their house
   
4. my desire to question everything: see "challenges"
5. my friends: genevieve bovee? keri smith? lexia snow? sara snow? sarah hill? sarah day? shan mukhtar? you? god, i can't think of a life without these folks.
   
6. new york: best time of my life; can never be recreated.
7. my ability to put a nostalgic, sentimental spin on my past.
   
8. saul bellow: how does he create such atmosphere in a couple of sentences?
9. the clash, specifically "guns of brixton": never fails to get me motivated to move my ass.
   
10. the sun: i never knew how much i relied on it until i moved to a place where it rises at 9AM and sets at 4PM (if it ever shows up in the first place).
11. my education: though i'm paying for it dearly, i can pick apart literature (and life) with the best of 'em.
12. your vegetarian lasgana: what i wouldn't do for even a small plate of that right now.
13. dreams: keep me putting one foot in front of the other. even though right now it feels like i'm putting one foot behind the other.
14. children: uncensored emotions. life before calculation and manipulation = perfection.