thankgiving is thursday.

i have to work this week, at least through wednesday. thursday's the holiday, friday i get off as well, it's a paid holiday, which is nice, since i get jobbed out of days off/holidays later this year. my regular day off is thursday, i've probably mentioned that before, and this year both christmas and new years fall on thursday, i'm not sure it'll be a huge deal though, i don't think i'll use up any more than three or four vacation days going home anyway.

it's mildly irritating, having to think about vacation days and stuff like that. when i was in college, we'd only get wednesday-friday off for thanksgiving, and i heard that until a couple years before i showed up there, they only gave thursday and friday, which struck me as odd, since it was a private school that had students from all over the country, as opposed to a state school that drew regionally where it wasn't such a hassle for kids to get home.

in any case, i never stuck around for those two days of class the week of thanksgiving, i'd always go home the weekend before and take the whole week. being able to do that was cool, i was usually pretty disciplined about not missing class to that point and figured that taking those two days off would be my reward for not cutting any class up to that point in the semester.

being at home on the monday before thanksgiving watching the price is right beat the smack out of listening to a social theory lecture, hearing about the theoretical implications of george mead's or thorstein veblen's research.

feeling: inadequate circulation
thinking of: turkey, i guess
music: "southbound" MxPx