Thankfuls
Yeah, I couldn't read through all of that, either. It seems like a good message; just goes on for a bit. Still, I think his emails are better since he hired an assistant.

At our customary post-lecture pub lunch yesterday I bullied my coursemates into sharing their thankfuls under the guise of cultural something-or-other. They were good sports about it. The pub had some cranberry condiment in a jar, so I put it 0n my mash to observe the holiday. Later, Phil and Aidan helped me pick out crackers at Woolie's, and Aidan bought "Cranium" because it was on sale, and we ended up playing it at another pub. Good times.

Here are my thankfuls this year, as I shared them at the pub:

• I'm thankful to be doing my course, and that it's so interesting, and to have the opportunity to do it in the first place.

• For classmates I consider friends and colleagues.

• For the health and safety of my family and partner, even though I couldn't be with them today.

We did also toast Norah Jones, but that's kind of a long story.

And the following, of course, was understood:

• For the beauty of the earth,
   for the glory of the skies,
   for the love which from our birth
   over and around us lies;
   
  2. For the beauty of each hour
   of the day and of the night,
   hill and vale, and tree and flower,
   sun and moon, and stars of light;
   
  
  3. For the joy of ear and eye,
   for the heart and mind's delight,
   for the mystic harmony,
   linking sense to sound and sight;
   
  
  4. For the joy of human love,
   brother, sister, parent, child,
   friends on earth and friends above,
   for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  

Whatever there is or might be, to you we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
- posted by k @ 1:16 AM