I love Barbara Emodi's flypaper thoughts; here is my own version
- Thanksgiving is the final Thursday in November
- unless you are Canadian
- Then it is in October
- If you choose your friends wisely
- you can have two thanksgivings a year
- Because I live over the ocean
- I can never remember when Thanksgiving is
- I've been telling British people it's the third Thursday for years
- This is not correct
- Since 2016, I have had my Thanksgivings
- On weekends
- When you have a job, it's easier
- to manage large dinner parties on Saturdays
- Than Thursdays
- But during my PhD, when I had Thanksgiving on Thursdays
- I would put the turkey in the oven
- go to a seminar
- skip the questions after the paper
- And head back to finish off the meal
- to be joined by a dozen or more guests afterwards
- Being young and fearless sure is something
- the turkey always turned out great
- sometimes things need less effort than we think they do
- My UK Thanksgivings began in 2012
- I borrowed a friend's apartment in Cambridge
- the 2013 one was in Leeds
- I had two Thanksgivings in 2014, 2015
- And 2016
- Small Thanksgivings in 2017 and 2018
- And a very special one in 2019
- Less than a week before I moved
- Nothing was packed
- It was so worth it
- There was no Thanksgiving in 2020
- I hate eating on zoom
- And Lincolnshire in November doesn't allow for outdoor picnics
- But this year, with vaccines and rapid testing kits
- I was able to have a small indoor Thanksgiving
- My guests announced themselves as "Thanksgiving virgins"
- So we began the meal joking and whooping with laughter
- Thank goodness for friends
- I overcatered
- No one minded
- It was so very lovely
- to have Thanksgiving again.
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