Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is really not my favorite holiday. I won't tell you why, or I'll just be inviting more invidious comparisons with Andy Rooney. But this year, I am really looking forward to it. I'm even okay with the part where people who are only in my living room once every two years turn my TV on in the middle of the day and try to teach it how to display football. Why? Because - and you work colleagues will understand this well - I am just totally ready for a day that comprises sitting around drinking tea in the early morning, sitting around drinking Pinot Blanc and eating the odd Nicoise olive around midday, making gravy and Zuni mashed potatoes in the early afternoon, sitting around eating poultry in the mid afternoon, walking in the late afternoon, and circling back to sitting around and drinking tea in the early evening. That is JUST EXACTLY my level of ambition right now.