Thanksgiving

I am going out to dinner for Thanksgiving for the first time - well at least in this country. Having spent previous Thanksgivings in Peru and Costa Rica - I realize how much I have tried to escape the holidays before.

I remember that while my mom would let me get out of the occasional Thanksgiving - I always needed to show up for Christmas. I am contemplating not doing that either this year dependent on where the Christmas festivities will be located.

I have found it interesting that only my friends have asked me where I am actually going instead.

I needed to be home this weekend so that I could work on my CV, research paper, mock advisory committee, entrepreneurial management assignment and statistics homework - and also I suppose doing some laundry would be in order.

The cats have also missed me this quarter. Most days I am out of the house for 12+ hours at school. Hobbes has let me know his dissatisfaction with this by meowing both when I am awake and at 3:00am. He is a smart gato. He knows meowing in front of the mirror in the front hallway and in the closet lets his voice carry the most. He still looks good though. Right when I think he is down for the count - he always seems to bounce back. He almost has me convinced right now that he will make it for many more years.

The other thing that I have noticed that is heralding in the winterish season is my propensity to hold a static charge. I am hoping that the mini electrical shocks that I administer to both my cats and myself will all keep us in a good mood.

I will be in search of the good mood though. Hopefully my mere feelings of relief will metamorphose into happiness.