other things I am incredibly incredibly grateful for, in no particular order
1. things i've learned from walks alone in the dark
2. the picture looking up a coast redwood chelsea took that is taped on my ceiling
3. catching the bus right on time, and anokhy sometimes taking it with me
4. being surrounded by people who are enthusiastic about life
5. how autumn smells
6. mysterious coincidences
7. inherited sarcasm
8. a together family
9. poetry
10. people i miss coming home for the holidays
11. nana laughing
12. marietta and teborah
13. how when glen hansard sings about pain, it's almost joyful
14. feeling
15. occasional states of grace
16. perfect songs
17. (most) people i love not getting swine flu
18. Katie being a Wild Thing
19. starting out my days with the carpool (malina, julia), and then the orch french horns (victor, george, justin)
20. mr. king in general
21. liking learning
22. applications of derivatives (jk)
23. lack of (diagnosed) mental problems
24. constellations (being able to see stars once in a while)
25. band and everyone in it and ms hernandez's figures of speech and how we pick up each other's mannerisms and how much they show me every day
26. the cat that comes to sit in the same chair everyday in our backyard
27. Dad rocking at calculus
28. Chelsea hopefully not going to Simon's Rock
28.5 Chelsea in general
29. hot spicy sour things
30. sleeping in
31. how many people put up with me
32. everyone in the group that assembles by sonia and julia's lockers
33. public transportation
34. josh keeping me sane in comprog, julia making me insaner
35. annie dillard and other writers who make me feel alive
36. the ocean
37. mom's crepes
38. how terrible movies cheer you up
39. how conversations with friends cheer you up eleventy times more
40. how ms. cappelli would tear this to shreds for lack of parallel structure
40.5 laughing at massacres of the english language with alex
41. sunlight through trees
42. my converse lasting as long as they did and going as far as they went
43. lessons learned from the dinkles blisters on my feet
44. leaving and coming home
45. bats
46. things that eat spiders
47. stories
48. things i haven't been able to say to people who know it anyway
49. calling each thing by its rightful name and envirothon
50. fog and rain
51. plans
52. having a weirdly low voice (and singing along to rent songs)
53. friends, family, and a cup overfloweth with everything i could ever want
54. peace where it is, and hoping for it where it isn't
55. believing in everything
56. you.
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