wow! What a drive-by-Meara that was from Shir! Thanksgiving is the 25th. Most folks also get the 26th off from work.
She went on a rant about how Barack Obama (complete with slapping her hand on the table with each syllable) is taking her hard earned money against her will.
It turns out that, completely unknown to me or any of our friends, she is a Teabagger and Anne Coulter fan.
I had this discussion with my Uncle. I said in a nice/inquisitive manner "I didn't realize you made over $250,000 net! That is awesome. You do realize that puts you in a class of 2% of Americans. And you do realize, that graduated income tax you despise so much only taxes at a higher rate the net income OVER the $250,000. Right?"
Which then spurred a whole "too much taxes is killing the jobs" rant. I pointed out that true growth comes from need, i.e. supply and demand. I don't care how much you make, if folks aren't demanding your product, you will not create jobs. If you want more demand, you need to decrease the taxes for those in your target group so they have more spending. That would be the folks who make less than $250,000. Unless you are a maker of luxury goods or something. When that demand increases, so will your net income, and thus that will help fund your new employee(s). But I don't buy the taxes over $250k killing jobs BS.
ION - I had the most delicious dessert tonight! The dinner was good too, but the dessert! I ate is slowly to savor it as long as possible. Thankfully the dinner conversation just kept going and going, so it was easy to do that. It was a Pumpkin Cheesecake at Maggianos (Italian restaurant... I think it's a small chain out here in CA). I described it like fireworks in my mouth. You take a bite, and you can feel the taste buds time release activation. First the pumpkin, then the cream, next the upper crust stuff (sorry, dunno what it was, pecan spread maybe?), and then the brown sugar/graham crust. I think. I'm not foodie enough to pick out ingredients. But oh my god it was delish! And the whipped cream on top was fab too. I usually don't care about whip cream. Doesn't do anything for me. But clearly this was not cool whip! MMmmm so heavenly.
OK, I need to get back to sleep.
My university gets the entire week of Thanksgiving off. One of my students emailed me to ask if I'd be canceling class the previous Friday because of the holiday.
jealous! We only get the two days. And since I am in the School of the Arts, I get to work that weekend. I'm hoping that I can still take Friday off. That is still up in the air. We go into tech for both an Opera, and the big dance show for the fall quarter. In order for the Uni to have the Thursday and Friday off, they have a "Week Zero" for fall quarter, which is only Thursday and Friday. M-W of that week is orientation stuff. Rather interesting. Gotta love the 10 week quarters.
Well we don't even have Thanksgiving.
But then, it would be odd if we did.
We're doing Thanksgiving on the Saturday this year, because neither of us has enough holidays left to cover a day off (which I usually take because there's a lot of cooking) and G is working and staying in Kent weekdays at the minute, so he'd have to drive up and straight back the next morning, which would suck. This way will be better, if untraditional, I think. But then, it's Thanksgiving in England, not much tradion there anyway.
My Thanksgiving is definitely going to be odd. We have some major family drama and then everyone else decided to lose their minds with regards to said drama. This is the first time in four years I have been home for Thanksgiving and I'm sort of wishing I were out of the country again now!
I do quite like the holiday in principle though.
I did Thanksgiving when I was in New York (actually, we went to join people in New Jersey for it). All that food. Fantastic holiday.
I am not really a fan of any holiday that is based on family togetherness. You may have already guessed that. The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday. The food is easy, there are fireworks, and no one expects you to drive hours to be with your family.
Maggianos (Italian restaurant... I think it's a small chain out here in CA)
There's Maggianos in the midwest too (Chicago metro area), but I'm not sure how far their reach is.
Who was it who said that Thanksgiving is just the excuse Americans give for having Christmas dinner a month early?
And I did manage to forget someone, in the end: Hil, the story with your student does suck. I'm sorry.
