Gratitude for Today

1) comfy new sweatshirts before you wash them and then get all nibby

2) public libraries with a large, previously undiscovered paperback section which you plumb, even though you know you have a midterm and several essays due

3) having a computer upon which you can share the mundane things that happened in your day with your mom over MSN, which you never did when you lived in different countries but do now frequently, now that she is 30 mins away. Then again, she didn't have a computer before

4) hot chocolate that your brother makes