Ugh, having to feed cats medicine is the worst. Now Molly is acting all afraid of me (she did get both her pain med and antibiotic though) and hiding as opposed to the lovey-doveyness earlier. Oh well, the plan was to keep her in my room for several days, but Jackson is easier to corral and maybe won't keep me awake with the mewing if I'm right there in the room with him.

Pluraling Jess is almost as much fun as pluraling buffista!

The folks in the big house on the other side of the parking lot get to leave early. Us tech support peons in the bunkhouse, though, keep to business as usual. And yes, we have a shift in place on Thanksgiving, to cover the non-USians in our clientele. Though I would think Canada would say "Oh, yeah, big holiday down there, they're probably closed."

To be fair, I know people who`ve worked in call centres here that have had to work our Thanksgiving to service US customers.

While I am not a big fan of Walmart having Black Friday Trample-Fests at 5pm on Thanksgiving, there have always been LOTS of people who have to work on Thanksgiving: restaurant employees, gas station employees, supermarket employees, cops and firefighters, doctors and nurses, professional football players, show dogs...

One thing I have found interesting is the creep in schools being out and travel times. I saw a lot of people traveling yesterday (Tuesday), and a bunch of schools have the whole week off. I am pretty sure when I was in college we had class on Wednesday - and the Amtrak up the east coast that night was jam-packed, since there was no reservation service - it was all college students sitting on suitcases in the aisles. (It was actually kind of fun.)

Typically I'd be in that Amtrak crush, too. Felt safer than the bus!

One of those times sitting on my suitcase in the aisle, I realized it was a smoking car, and lit up. People near me were PISSED. But I was following the rules! Sorry they got in the wrong car.

And then I learned that USAir had student fares.

Amtrak had a station in Wallingford, CT, where I lived! Flying to CT is such a giant pain in the ass, unless you live in Windsor Locks, which, who does?

Come to think of it, Jesse and I might have been on the same train at some point!

I remember taking the Amtrak, and I wasn't even going to my house for Thanksgiving! Always packed.

Yes, schools have the Thanksgiving Break creep. In our district, we had been furloughed for the three days before Thanksgiving for a few years and it's hard for the District to take those days back now. I love having the time off, but lots of parents get pissed because school is their day care and it screws up their schedules.

Come to think of it, Jesse and I might have been on the same train at some point!

Ha! Probably. Although I really only took the train my freshman year -- Philly to Boston is a long train ride, and the plane was the same price, I figured out. One time, I got off the train to see a family friend waiting at South Station, and my immediate thought was that there was a crisis in my family. Yeah, no, his daughter was on the same train as me, coming from NYC, and my parents were just standing somewhere else.

there have always been LOTS of people who have to work on Thanksgiving

Movie theaters never close for any holiday.