The food has never pinged me (even when I ate dead bird, turkey didn't excite me) and I dislike the fact that the holiday seems to be about all Americans eating nearly the exact same foods. Oh, and it's also About the Parade and the Football -- neither of which grab me.
[On a positive note: There was color on my plate. Baby spinach, green beans with almonds, baby carrots, and mashed potatoes. It occurred to me this time around that I basically just avoid the cranberries on principle, so I tried a smidge. Basically what one would expect given cranberry juice -- a connection I should have thought of earlier. The kind of taste that it is doesn't seem to me to really fit in with the rest of the traditional dinner, though.]
Greg [HBS prof] said he was gonna go out to dinner with his family Thanksgiving night -- you don't have to cook or clean up and you're only stuck with your family for a few hours.
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Last week I mentioned doing LJ Affirmations for Thanksgiving.
I have not included my entire flist here, and if you're not included it doesn't mean that I don't like you. I mean, dude, I have 100+ people friended (even when we take out duplicate journals).