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I’m thankful for, in no particular order:

1. Baby Jesus
2. Nabisco chocolate wafers.  Like Oreos without the filling.
3. Morrissey
4. the promise offered by the incoming Democratic congress
5. no further terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. . .except K-Fed’s album
6. my family
7. easy autoformatting blog software
8. the legacy of John Lennon
9. Ringo Starr’s pleasant, self-effacing mediocrity
10. the extended trailer for Spider-Man 3
11. Neal Patrick Harris
12. 24: Season Five will be on DVD soon
13. Derrida, goddamnit
14. Post-adolescent Jesus
15. American support of our troops in the Middle East. . .
16. . . .while support for the policies behind the war comes crashing down
17. The lyric: "Ain’t there one damn song that can make me. . .BREAK down and cry?"
18. And also the lyric: "As the big freighters go, she was bigger than most."
19. And also: "In this ever changing world in which we live in. . ."
20. the James Bond movies might be good again
21. Blender magazine’s new typeface
22. Jeff’s "Say ‘yes’ to the text first."
23. Barrett’s "It’s the _____ moment, isn’t it?"
24. Richard’s "It’s both."
25. The last three are not sarcastic.
26. Nor was that.
27. Pres. Irvin D. Reid and the Board of Governors
28. Movies of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
29. Sexually Confused Young Adult Jesus
30. Arrested Development, Seasons 1-3.
31. academic interest in graphic novels as a valid art form
32. Ben and Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie ice cream
33. my cats, esp. Schnickelfritz
34. the end of the DaVinci Code craze
35. naughty teens week on Maury
36. MZD’s House of Leaves
37. The Smiths
38. the staff at Record Time, esp. Ray and Michelle
39. mechanical pencils
40. the Go-Betweens’ 16 Lovers’ Lane
41. the smell of new books
42. the smell of old books
43. a merely moderate increase in gas prices with the onset of winter weather
44. MDOT
45. Granholm’s reelection–now do something with it, dammit.
46. Washed-Up Vegas Era Jesus
47. Calvin and Hobbes, still
48. that I still cry at E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial
49. Michelle Dunaj’s resilience and refusal to give in to her cancer
50. my cat Sylvester’s purr, even though he died in July
51. the Stratford Festival of Canada
52. cerulean
53. Warren Ellis, Brian Bendis, Grant Morrison, Allan Moore, Keith Giffen & J. M. DeMatteis, Peter David, Geoff Johns, Jeph Loeb
54. Michael Chabon, M. Z. Danielewski, Philip Roth, Gore Vidal, David Foster Wallace, Ian McEwan, Jonathon Lethem
55. Coldplay, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Bjork (except for Medulla), the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, and, yes, even Gnarls Barkley
56. Scorsese, Spielberg, Almodovar, Aronofsky, Zhang Yimou, S. Coppola, Linklater, W. Anderson
57. The Number 753
58. Roger Ebert’s recovery
59. my friends and colleagues in the English Dep’t. . .
60. . . .esp. my fellow new GTAs: Without the help and support of all y’all, I wouldn’t have lasted a month.  Thanks for making my first month back in school bearable.  6010 Representin’!