We all know what today is

one of my Blogging Principles (one i forgot to list) was that my blog would not become a journal. i have a journal for that, after all, so there's no point in parading everything out here. but today i am going to do a very journal-ish thing, and list some of the things for which i am thankful. it's late, so the list won't be very comprehensive. that would make for an awful long list, anyhow.

• dinner. in particular, mrs. bing, mabrookah the turkey queen, david lewis who knew where my stuffing ingredients were, and i can't name everybody, so the first three i thought of luck out. lots of hard workers today, and an awe-inspiring spread to show for it.
• one tutorial paper to go. two weeks until home. and today's paper actually went over pretty well.
• in the list of email addresses in julian's inspirational post-race party-planning email, he gave the whole crew nick-names. these include rick "where's my seat" slettenhaar, adam "dude" skinner, jeremias "crazy ivan" prassl, and, since you were going to ask anyway, jeff "no, this is his room-mate" russell. the reason for that is i was late to practice once, and they called the room, and J.D. answered with that expression. the brits found this very funny, since british students don't have roommates. i'm thankful for the crew and for nick-names in general.
• instant messenger. it's very nice to have the luxury of occasional chats with home-people (by which i mean stanfordians as well as bellinghamsters).
• home-people.
• oxford-people; corpus, the choir, the stanford house. i'm in a good place.
• evensong and eucharist.
• being loved, being safe, being free.
• the corpus christi library, because it has everything.
• no class on friday, and the general enlightenment of the Programme.
• cardenal! (my residence upon my return to stanford.)
• sleeeeeep.