Jimmy Pan

Sometimes numbers just fail

“I talked to Freddy Mutanguha in a field of white crosses, near a half-finished monument to perhaps ***,*** victims of the Rwandan genocide. “My mom,” he recalled, “gave money to be killed by a bullet, because she saw the machetes and knew what they would do to her. But the bullet was too expensive.”

Thank you Aiza for helping me get the gross out of Monster House

Thanks Jane for spending a great Sunday with me and making turnip cakes

Thanks Dararith for hosting the BBQ,  Anders for letting us have it at your place, and Nga for the ride

Thanks Rita for calling me and preventing me from crashing

Thank you Jeff, for hanging around when the freezer starting going bonkers

2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. This is a big deal!

Thank you Mom for making some vegetarian food for me, and Angela for making rice krispies treats

Thank you Karl and Haley for not breaking our pact, 3 years running strong

Thank you The Internet, for always providing me with access to information, the priceless commodity

Thank you Aaron, for selling me this laptop on the cheap. It’s been 100x useful

Thank you Mo, for leaving us lots of awesome foods on Thanksgiving

Thank you Rita and Lici and Lauren and Marlene, for hanging out with us

Thank you Thu, for picking up a USB drive for me

Thanks.

Thank you Dennis Kucinich for standing up for ethics in politics

Thank you Helen for being our pawn during secret week

Thank you Mom and Dad for providing me with a place to go during the holidays

Thank you Jane Lin for not getting bitchy even though I haven’t been calling you these past few days

Thank you Mia and Anthony for being great friends and great big bros

Thank you Haley for always providing humor in my mundane world

Thank you Rita for sticking with Aphio for the time being. We’ll make it fun.

Thank you Aiza for slaving away over the dishes last night.

Today Nov 9, I am thankful for

Satya for going through the effort to make sure I have the finances to get through graduate school

Robb at Freedom from Hunger for taking time out of his busy day to talk to me about health in the world

Helen and Nicole for watching 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama with me

the Dalai Lama for being an extremely principled and humane man

Aiza for always graciously sharing her food with the rest of the house