Thanksgiving for not giving Thanks

Sorry if the title is sacrilegious or harsh (somehow I doubt it is either...) Thanksgiving was...interesting. I was going to say near disaster/underwhelming but I don't want to be too downtrodden and pessimistic while I am abroad in a country that does not understand the importance of Puritanical fanatics feasting with American Indians, unaware of the fact that they will shortly be genocided into oblivion by their dinner guests! So the Brits don't even get Thanksgiving. I didn't really ask anyone about it but it passed completely under the radar in common day going-ons in London. A shame.

Ah yes so how does this relate to the story I am trying to relate to you? Well the first sign was that there was no prevailing Thanksgiving spirit. The next problem was that I had work due for my classes the day after. And of course I said I would work ahead, but did I? No. So guess what I spent my Thanksgiving day doing? Well if you said work, I would give you an A for effort. The days before I had tried to work, but I was sidetracked. Now I should probably put a disclaimer on this: I did not think once I got to London anyone would give a shit in the least about me and that I would disappear off the face of the Earth from my friends not here. Bizarrely enough, I was surprised people actually still wanted to talk to me and keep up with things from the States and elsewhere. Can you believe that? I can't. I'm flattered, thank you all, I guess this is one of those Thanksgiving "I told you so"'s. I guess I underestimated how much I was interesting enough and non-boring for my friends to keep things up with. However, when you get a torrential flood of people Skyping you right before Thanksgiving (and during Thanksgiving) and you are trying to do work...doesn't turn out so well...

So yes, as I feverishly tried to get my work done, the evening and expected Thanksgiving dinner crept precipitously closer and closer. I checked the usual channels of what we were doing with my crew here. I thought we had agreed to go to "The Monument" for dinner: evidently not. A misunderstanding where some thought we were going to there and then those who were going to the Rosebury Hall dorm to have a turkey dinner there. So I acquiesced, gave in to peer pressure, and headed up to the Angel tube stop. I was a little late because of work and ran into Jess a little after 7PM. W e walked for a good 10 minutes in the wrong direction and then by the time we finally go there, they had run out of food. So I stopped turn to Jess and we both start laughing: obviously we know what is on our minds. We say goodbye to everyone after just arriving and we hop on the tube to the Monument stop.

We get to the pub and sure enough our eagerly awaited food is on the menu: however, this time it is not turkey but chicken in the sandwich! (later we figure out that the first time we were there it was indeed turkey and we weren't imagining things. They must have changed it because of the bird flu outbreak and the culling of flocks to stem it.) Maybe we were lucky we didn't drag everyone there, as we probably would have caused a riot of disgruntled Americans.
So in other news, the LSE campus has been bitching about a Miss LSE beauty pageant is "sexist" I don't even know where to start with that one except...yeah I just get pissed at this leftist trash sometimes. Why don't they try to integrate our bathrooms while you're at it? Also I received an email saying I cannot be the treasurer of different societies simultaneously. Ooops! I realized it must be the corruption of being the money book keeping authority in two different places, and the potential for corruption and political intrigue. Hahah too bad they caught me!
This weekend a whole slew of Hoyas comes to London. We'll see how that goes and I'll report back. Hopefully I will get time to explore more of London, though I feel like I have less time to do this (as I said before) and I still need to hit the O2 with King Tut, potentially expiring special exhibits at the Imperial War Museum, and hit Notting Hill. All the while I am going to Edinburgh and Praha and I will be going home to the States in 3 weeks!