Thanksgiving Weekend
posted on november 28, 2004, tag: me
The weekend was extremely full. Thursday I spent Thanksgiving at my mother's house in Staten Island, where we ate lots of food and watched a few movies. The drive back to Brooklyn at midnight was like driving during rush-hour traffic. Apparently most people only want to see their relatives for the day and then high-tail it out of there. I'm not saying that's how I felt, of course.
Friday we were in New Jersey for our five-year high school reunion. Ugh, what a nightmare. I was not a fan of 98% of those people five years ago, and I'm certainly not any more so now, so it wasn't a lot of fun to be crammed into an American Legion hall with 80 of them for nearly 4 hours (and we left early). The place immediately fell into old patterns—all the "cool" kids hanging out at the same table, all the "uncool" kids clinging to small groups on the outskirts. It felt patently high school. Disgusting.
And Saturday was Katia's mother's birthday so we spent the day readying a large dinner party and then spent the evening eating and hanging about. Some of our friends came later that night and after a few hours of tea and dessert we said congratulations to her parents for their 25th wedding anniversary (which is actually today, but it was past midnight) and headed back to Brooklyn.
Today we cleaned up the apartment, took a walk in the nice afternoon and finalized some Christmas lists. The last few days I've been up until at least 3AM and this morning we forced ourselves to wake up early so we'd be tired tonight. Well, it worked. I'm struggling to make it to 11PM.
How was your holiday weekend?
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mathewhoy@gmail.com on 11/28/2004:
daang. my weekend was the shitty. don't even ask. today was a terrible day. gaah. not even the 2nd season of 6 feet under starting up could quell it.
Nick Findley on 11/29/2004:
Five year reunion seems a little premature. Not that a ten or twenty year reunion wouldn't end up reverting to the same old cliques, etc., but after five years I still see everyone I went to high school with regularly anyway, or at least remember their names. Gotta give it a few decades for people to graduate college at least, and maybe even have families and do something with their lives, or perhaps die, or something interesting, so it's not just like lunch in the cafeteria again.
Jason on 12/01/2004:
i did not go to my 5 year reuniun. i most likely will not go to my ten year one either. i hate those people. The only reason i would go would be really for a boost of self confidence since i became a computer programmer and all those jocks just work construction. But knowing my luck they would all become like investment bankers or something. blah. classmates.com must die.
Darin on 12/05/2004:
I was down in the city visiting my girlfriend. The upper west side was a complete ghost town and I couldn't understand why. That is until I went into midtown and saw the thirty million tourists standing in a big clump on 42nd and Broadway. Jesus. I suppose the way it works out is that as many New Yorkers as possible get the hell out of the city and those unlucky enough to be stuck there have their family out ninteen cousins removed come and visit.