Writer's Block: Is your goose (or tofu) cooked?

[Error: unknown template qotd]

Well, I'm certainly not hosting one; hell if I'd even know how to cook a turkey in a spacious American kitchen, let alone my tiny-ass galley with less than a square foot of counter space and nothing but a grill and a microwave with a "stove" setting. (And that doesn't even factor in the mashed potatoes and pies).

As for going someplace else, I've already blown about half of my savings on tickets to come home for Christmas, so I'll wait until then to see my family, my boyfriend, and a few of my friends. I feel like someone would be throwing one here, but I've heard nothing (yet). Or I'm just not invited. (I feel like the most likely scenario, considering how small our apartments are and how hard it is to get-- let alone cook-- a turkey here, is that a few small groups are having small Thanksgivings together and I'm not particularly intimate enough with any of them to be included. Which is fair).

The prospect of not doing anything for Thanksgiving bothers me less than it did last year, however. Last year, being in the US, I would have been conspicuously alone working in my dorm room while everyone around me vacated the place to go home to family and home-cooked dinners. (Thanks so much to Brandy and her family, and Oren and Mimi, for saving my Thanksgiving!). However, here I could probably just sleep (or, erm, work) right through Thanksgiving. Even if there are pockets of American and Canadian expats having small makeshift Thanksgiving dinners without me (which would have to be on the weekend afterward, anyway), it's not like I'll be obviously missing out because there will be just as many British, Kiwi, South African, and Korean expats and millions of Japanese nationals not even noticing there's a holiday. Plus, I've got three extra Thanksgivings saved up in my system from having thrown them for our French exchange students the past three Julys. Considering Thanksgiving isn't even that big of a holiday anyway, I think I can go without for the time I'm here. It'll just seem that much more nostalgic when I get back.

( However, sure, I'll talk about Thanksgiving traditions )

But I just have to say . . . Boo for questions aimed at a narrow audience! LJ does not serve only Americans and Canadians. First "Did you like New Moon?" and now this? Sigh. You know, I actually submitted a couple questions (anonymously; I hear they tamper with them and then credit you anyway, and people come harass you on your journal about how stupid they are O.o) which were abstract and universal, so I know it's not because they don't have anything to work with.

Writer's Block: Is your goose (or tofu) cooked?

[Error: unknown template qotd]

Well, I'm certainly not hosting one; hell if I'd even know how to cook a turkey in a spacious American kitchen, let alone my tiny-ass galley with less than a square foot of counter space and nothing but a grill and a microwave with a "stove" setting. (And that doesn't even factor in the mashed potatoes and pies).

As for going someplace else, I've already blown about half of my savings on tickets to come home for Christmas, so I'll wait until then to see my family, my boyfriend, and a few of my friends. I feel like someone would be throwing one here, but I've heard nothing (yet). Or I'm just not invited. (I feel like the most likely scenario, considering how small our apartments are and how hard it is to get-- let alone cook-- a turkey here, is that a few small groups are having small Thanksgivings together and I'm not particularly intimate enough with any of them to be included. Which is fair).

The prospect of not doing anything for Thanksgiving bothers me less than it did last year, however. Last year, being in the US, I would have been conspicuously alone working in my dorm room while everyone around me vacated the place to go home to family and home-cooked dinners. (Thanks so much to Brandy and her family, and Oren and Mimi, for saving my Thanksgiving!). However, here I could probably just sleep (or, erm, work) right through Thanksgiving. Even if there are pockets of American and Canadian expats having small makeshift Thanksgiving dinners without me (which would have to be on the weekend afterward, anyway), it's not like I'll be obviously missing out because there will be just as many British, Kiwi, South African, and Korean expats and millions of Japanese nationals not even noticing there's a holiday. Plus, I've got three extra Thanksgivings saved up in my system from having thrown them for our French exchange students the past three Julys. Considering Thanksgiving isn't even that big of a holiday anyway, I think I can go without for the time I'm here. It'll just seem that much more nostalgic when I get back.

( However, sure, I'll talk about Thanksgiving traditions )

But I just have to say . . . Boo for questions aimed at a narrow audience! LJ does not serve only Americans and Canadians. First "Did you like New Moon?" and now this? Sigh. You know, I actually submitted a couple questions (anonymously; I hear they tamper with them and then credit you anyway, and people come harass you on your journal about how stupid they are O.o) which were abstract and universal, so I know it's not because they don't have anything to work with.