Yesterday was thanksgiving! I was woken up early by a phone call from Seth, who was driving home to see his fam. It made me wish I was going to see my family, or with him to see his. I'm glad he went though, because they make awesome food.
I started to watch the parade on TV, but then realized that I don't really like doing that anymore because they don't really show the floats, and they show all the broadway singers lip-synching and doing scenes from their shows. So I watched King of the Hill and the Top Chef marathon instead. I even got a little bit of homework in.
Earlier this week, my friend Elizabeth that lives upstairs invited me over for t-giving dinner. Her mom is in town from D.C. to visit. She was also having some kids from her department come too, and they're vegetarians, so we were having a vegetarian thanksgiving. Which is never something in a million years I thought I would do. So I didn't really know what to expect. I figured at the very worst I could only eat a little and then eat something when I got home. I didn't know what to bring, so I went to Safeway and picked up some oatmeal cookies, wine, carmelized onion and roasted garlic dip, and pita chips. I thought I would eat that if everything else was gross.
But luckily, it all turned out really well. Dinner was actually very fantastic! We ate roasted acorn squash with butter and salt and pepper, vegetarian stuffing (from the box), salad (tomatoes, mozzerella, basil, and olive oil), steamed asparagus, and even salmon. The salmon was actually my least favorite, just because it was a little dry. Anyway, Elizabeth's apartment has the same layout as mine, and the perfect size for the five of us. Oh, and this is funny: Elizabeth found a nice, 80 gb ipod in the classroom where she TA's, and is trying to get it back to the student but they won't respond to her flyers, so last night she plugged it in and put the playlist on random and we listened to it at dinner. This girl loves 80's rock and show tunes. We also got Metallica, Bright Eyes, and Britney Spears. Love it.
Elizabeth's mom is crazy-cool. She lives in D.C. and uses the f-word and says g-d a lot. They have these really great stories about their family and friends back home, and how everyone goes to Harvard, or works for the CIA, or have these awesome upper-class scandals. Elizabeth is working on her PhD in philosophy and she is incredibly smart and passionate. We've only hung out a few times, but we get along well, and I am so glad she invited me over! And dinner conversation was really interesting, since Elizabeth, Rachel, and Andrew are philosophy majors and Elizabeth's mom is really opinionated and smart. We talked about the war, but also tons of other neat stuff. I drank entirely too much wine (I think we all did) and decided to call it a night when I started texting people at the table...
All in all, I would call my vegetarian thanksgiving a raging success. I also have a raging hangover from too much wine. Should make for an interesting study day. My other friend Emily invited me to go to Olympia today for her family's thanksgiving, but I cancelled to work on school stuff. Hers would be an overnight trip and I just didn't think it was a good idea. But I was so happy she asked!
Anyway I hope your thanksgiving was delicious, too. Now I'm going to take a nap then *really* start studying.
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