touch

In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote: touch all things with consideration and they will be yours. I find that, particularly in the winter, I complain too frequently about trivialities. So on this snow-turning-to-sleet-turning-to-rain day, I’m embarking on the path of good intentions – a gratitude journal.

85

• being reminded every night as i climb into bed that i have friends who care about me
• some goof off time
• dann brown, my roommate soulmate
• butternut squash
• pumpkin carving with maithili
• returning to my yoga practice
• plotting a fall adventure with erin
• project runway date night with alicia

84

• sleepover weekend with Melissa
• standing date with Alicia
• Maine adventures with Dominique
• Erin, Erin, Erin
• raising $ for 826Boston
• meeting Gonzalo’s parents
• hoping that a closed door is going to turn into an even better opportunity

83

• having a Project Runway buddy this season – yay Alicia! yay Tim Gunn!
• 50% off everything at the Garment District
• planning for sea monsters at 826 next week
• HUP softball
• my new-found affection for beer
• friends who are supporting my yoga teacher learning curve
• Crane Beach w/Maggie & Lauren

82

• dann brown dance party
• weekend adventures with new friends
• “return to steadiness”
• the whaling museum with Kim
• breathing through this sinking feeling in my stomach

81

• Maggie
• sff rereading
• a wonderful and relaxing and productive retreat weekend in Rockport
• wheel assists
• iced coffee

80

• dessert street vs. desert street
• bicycle freedom
• my twitterature Hamlet
• post-show late night park time with Molly Z.
• Firefly
• all-around awesomeness with Chad

79

• ask and receive
• baseball in a cloud
• dinner with Sim
• good news for Eric
• keeping my fingers super crossed

78

• O2 Yoga
• everyone at 826Boston
• figuring out my next tattoo
• end of the semester in sight
• baseball season

77

• hot tub date with Maith
• hoping for shoulder answers next week
• spending time on poetry
• strategizing for next year
• Erin Ailworth
• all the help in the world from GP

76

• being told that my practice is “lovely” by my fellow-teacher-trainees. this is the nicest compliment i have ever gotten.
• oysters w/sim
• postapocalyptic deer-fish
• the return of pokerless poker
• the inaugural smart cheese – and that people can be as fascinated as i am by bog people and that my friends do interesting things
• dinner w/court
• jasper fforde w/jack & anya
• celebrating “moby”
• feeling like a princess after restorative w/ryan & matthew