It’s the day before Thanksgiving, which is a holiday for me. But I shan’t be lallygagging around, instead I’ll be making pies and doing prep for tomorrows dinner.

How exciting!

So today’s word is: busy

I love Thanksgiving week in Morgantown.

Students are gone the entire week. Since WVU faculty and staff have to work other holidays (like Veterans Day) because of the class schedule we get Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off this week. Which means that a lot of people take the entire week off, which means that things at work are incredibly slow. So I have a two day work week, and those two days are gong to be slow, so it’s a good time to get caught up. (There will be a lot of cleaning these two days.)

Even better, traffic is almost non-existent, since almost all the students are gone, as are some faculty and staff members. You can get across town with no difficulty, so this is a good week to take care of all those errands you’be been putting off since school was back in session.

And of course, there’s Thanksgiving itself. I love Thanksgiving. No gift giving, and it’s all about food. We pick up our fresh turkey Tuesday evening–they’ll be at the Spruce Street parking lot Tuesday evening from 6 to 7. I’be never had turkey this fresh to the best of my knowledge, so I’m very excited.

And of course I get to make pies. I’m planning on pumpkin and sweet potato, but I may make an apple next weekend since it is Grandmom’s favorite.

Only bad thing is this is also the beginning of the pre-Christmas insanity. Of course, that make me even more thankful, since most of my shopping is done already

Better Be Good to Me

Because what’s not to love about Tina Turner?

It’s right there!

Look! Over there!

You didn’t see it? Hmm…. Must just be me then.

Let’s associate!

Today’s word is: bacon

When we say Avenue Q on Sunday, I realized I’d heard one of the songs before: Schadenfreude.

I actually like the song quite a bit–nice and upbeat and extremely funny.

But later I started thinking about the song. And realized that although I enjoy the song, I don’t quite get schadenfreude as a concept. Yes, I know what the word means, and I understand the idea intellectually, but I don’t really feel the concept.

All those teen movies where horrible things happen to the characters for comedy? I cringe. Those YouTube videos of people falling down the stairs or off ladders taking a nasty tumble? I can’t watch them.

Anything along those lines horrifies me. I have to look away and feel almost ashamed at having seen someone’s suffering.

Let me make it clear, I’m not saying I’m a better person because of this. I’m most certainly not a saint, and I will admit to feeling a certain satisfaction when I hear something bad has happened to someone who was cruel to me in the past. But I don’t like to hear about anyone suffering a physical trauma, no matter what they’ve done. And I know entirely too well what it’s like to be laughed at, and it’s a feeling I wouldn’t wish upon anyone.

I know there have to be other people who have the same reactions I do. But a whole lot more people seem to get it.

Maybe it’s the fact that (to the best of my knowledge) I don’t have any German heritage.

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Show your work.

Just got back from seeing Avenue Q.

It was good, although prude that I am, the puppet fornication made my blush.

This weeks game of word association was postponed due to my Veterans’ Day post. But I couldn’t let a week pass without a game, so here we are, better late than never.

Today’s word: Duck

Here’s your weekly does of word association.

Today’s word: five

It’s word association time!!!!!

Today’s word: carriage

I do not think it means what you think it means.

female big brust picture
I’m not sure how Steven Brust would feel about that.

james madison admitted states to union
All by himself?

I just realized that my web host is only saving the top twenty search terms. Why on earth would I want just the top twenty? The weird ones appear only once.

Everyone needs a little silliness in their lives.