The day before US Thanksgiving doldrums

So what are your plans?

Our director is letting us go at noon. I have some work to do today, and I'll me best to get it out. Such a classic phone-it-in day though.

We've already had the family thanksgiving so I'm relishing a long weekend with no obligations. Options on the agenda:

-a tailgate for the Texas/A&M game with fried turkeys and free beer

-writing a paper comparing Oedipus and Death of a Salesman for my boyfriend's English class (okay this is a must, not an option)

-knitting baby sweaters

-writing

-xmas shopping

-trying to drag someone to see Twilight again with me

-would like to put up the tree but a month away seems too early

ILx?

I'll be in a small room with no windows til 11pm! WHEEE

got to get those pie fixins!

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Are you at least getting turkey?

What kind of pies? I'm having xmas at my house for the first time this year (well just my brother and his family. The rest of my family has stopped celebrating any holidays at all.) Bringing out the best: tamales, banana pudding, and fudge.

Today I will be mostly writing a 15 page paper due tonight, baking cupcakes for thanksgiving, making a stew for dinner and packing. Ugh.

i think imna make an australian apple pie and maybe a strawberry rubarb or pecan

Pecan! It's the worst pie for you but the best tasting.

maybe i will make all three :)

good plan

im dreading going to the insaneo supermarket tho - maybe i will save it for the middle of the nite

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The last two are two of my faves. How is pecan pie the worst?? My mother-in-law has the best recipe. It's pretty much solid pecans rather than a top layer of nut with the rest being soft and treacly.

lol do u guys know abt clear pie - its like pecan w/o the pecans - top w/cool whip!

Pecan pie is just usually the higest in terms of fat and calories which obv means it's the best and most awesome!

Oh shit the supermarket. I have to go too. Maybe I should shower and go now because it's still early-ish.

Clear pie???

should prob just hit the supermarket right now :/

Black Friday anyone? I hate being such a consumer but having four kiddos btw 3-9 to buy for makes me gift crazy. I want to be their Santa Claus. Also there's the grown kid who lives with me and keeps sending me e-mails about who will have various Xbox 360 crap on sale this weekend.

I truly dread hitting the stores this weekend. That might push my limits in terms of tolerating the mass of humanity.

No way will I be shopping this weekend. I can't handle the crowds and craziness.

Tomorrow morning we have to drive to Long Island. I hope that most people will travel today and that if we leave early enough it won't be too bad traffic wise.

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be glad you don't work retail

the one who wants the video games lock him in the basement until new years

xpost - my deepest sympathies.

hmm, not a bad idea. He was just laid-off and srsly my nieces and nephew are my top priority. Maybe we should hold off presents for each other until after xmas. But he has been waiting patiently to receive COD 5 as an xmas gift. I would hate to disappoint.

Studying all day.

Sucks doesn't it? :-(

Working from home today. Gonna nap a lot and then go shopping for foodstuffs.

at the library; "looking forward" to a skype thanksgiving with the fam back home

Driving to Michigan tomorrow to my sisters party. She ordered a Turducken which is something new. Will listen to the Lions game on the drive up. I'm bringing my bowling ball so Friday looks like a beer/bowling afternoon with the nephew.

work lets out at 3 but i am stuck going to class from 6:30-9:15 tonight. wtf.

Sucks doesn't it? :-(

― Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:32 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

The me of the past is gawking from the window of his time machine.

I'm sitting at my desk with my recipes working up a grocery list. Next, I'll work on my list of what I'm doing this evening/tonite. THEN, I'll work on my big game day plan. Lists!

I approve of this use of work time.

I'm in awe of people who pull of the big dinner, especially by themselves. The first xmas after my grandmother passed away my aunt and I attempted to recreate her traditional dinner. It completely kicked our ass and I couldn't believe she managed to do it by herself every year.

My family has never had a together-holiday since. Maybe it's our fault b/c we f'ed up the fruit salad. :(

on my way to the CT train. Wish I hadn't awakened at 3:45 a.m. :p

Today -- knocking off a slew of winter quarter prep work so I don't have to think about it at all later, taking advantage of another quiet day (as noted when I started this thread!), plus one last Trader Joe's visit for resupplies

Tomorrow -- dinner with friend Stripey and her family

Friday -- work again! (which means I don't have to work any other holidays and can finish up the rest of winter quarter prep work on an even quieter day) Then a party at a friend's place near campus right after work.

i have to fly later today, which is perhaps my least favorite thing to do.

Writing a brief, then going out to hear some live music with my wife and some friends who just got back into the country from the UK. WOOT!

so dreading going to the insaneo supermarket tonight.

wait: ILX is gonna be dead until Monday isn't it?

dammmmmn

Cruised down the interstate. Only three other kids in the Beeps' class. Found a space a block closer to work.

Love these days.

i realized i forgot butter and milk/cream for the potatoes, which means paying way too much for them at a bodega on my way home tonight :(

wait: ILX is gonna be dead until Monday isn't it?

Either that or drunken, getting-away-from-the-family posts.

oh those are my favorite

I'll be right here to read 'em up!

Ned, you have to work Friday? Now I don't feel so bad about having to work today.

office is quiet, i'm hungry, will go get a quick egg sandwich.

I am excitedly making my sweet potato costume for a Thanksgiving wedding in Los Angeles where "pilgrim, native american and new world vegetable costumes are encouraged"!

Nicole, we're always open the day after Thanksgiving for short hours and since we're open most holidays we have to divvy up coverage. I like taking that day for a slew of reasons -- I don't go home for Thanksgiving anyway, so that frees it up for everyone else if they want/need to travel, it's always TOTALLY dead so it's not really stressful at all, as mentioned it lets me catch up on winter quarter stuff well in advance to knock out a lot of reserves things, and the hours worked turn in to comp time that I apply towards a mandatory three days that has to be taken as vacation during the Xmas break. (Seriously, there are three days that have to be either handled as vacation or comp time. I'll build up the comp time, thanks.)

whoa! xpost @ tuber-man wedding

xxpost, will you have marshmallows?

Our university completely closes down between Dec. 22 - Jan. 5. Which is awesome. Then just a week later we get a three-day weekend for MLK day. Unfortunately, it's a long stretch to Memorial Day after that.

We're pretty good with the staff holidays in the first half of the year, we get MLK, President's, Cesar Chavez, Memorial Day.

Cesar Chavez

! Seriously? Our state is now 40% Hispanic or so and we're totally dissed on this one.

Yeah, it's kinda taken the place of Easter as an official day off. But yeah, state holiday.

that's pretty cool.

I had off today but I'm working Thursday through Sunday. At least I have no overnight hours.

Frankly I feel like those doldrums have arrived a day early.

It's raining, and I have half as many meetings as usual, but none of them are good.

i “get” to work from home tomorrow but i would rather stay in bed all day

bo-ring

we had pre-Thanksgiving potluck brunch so now i'm in my office nodding off.

might as well not even be here, shit all is getting done by me.

My routine in recent years has been to spend Thanksgiving with my gf's family and then Xmas with my own. My recently-brainwashed aunt (by marriage) brought her Trumpite new husband to the turkey day festivities last year (hosted by my cousin) and apparently has decided, counter to everyone else's preference, that an annual spectacle of instability is the best way to celebrate the holiday. So I'm only vicariously experiencing the doldrums of my otherwise sane family members.

Why are actual people here this morning, I ask you.

this is the fakest work week

Judging by last year's post and my experience over the last several days, it's a fake week for everybody else who's been whipping all their shit into my inbox just before their mad rush out of town. At least very little new has come through today and I'm just burning off that prior glut.

Luckily I am NOT at work today, because today are my 50th birthday. So, pluses and minuses, I guess.

Happy Birthday!

Nothing's worse than employers at a "gig" job who say "Oh, leave early!!" as the supervisor says "and I'll adjust your timesheet." (ie take money away from you)

Nicely lighter traffic on the 5 a.m. commute = bonus!

i am protesting this day of “work” by staying in my pyjamas while i work from home

I am too. But I do that every day.

happy birthday Liz!

Okay this breaks some doldrums for the LOLs.

Ummm what. pic.twitter.com/QKiVptoClf

— Laura Hayes (@LauraHayesDC) November 27, 2019

And indeed, separately, happiest to Liz!

‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving
And all through the bar

My busiest day in last six months. Had to do Wednesday, Thusday and Friday all in one day.

Not so bad. Office was quiet for once, so I got a lot done.

final 3 hours: zero emails

fucking waste of a day

area pajama-wearer unsatisfied

highlight of my day was the leftover half-a-burrito i had for lunch

It’s on

Good morning!

I'm at Disney World!

Last night while I was trying to fall asleep I had the brilliant idea of using bamboo steamer stacks to transport deviled eggs in a small footprint.

work got closed yesterday due to snow which is basically free PTO, but i was sick all day so i dunno

Last night while I was trying to fall asleep I had the brilliant idea of using bamboo steamer stacks to transport deviled eggs in a small footprint.