Turkey Day was excellent. There is nothing like an entire holiday devoted to eating!

Let's see. David and I spent Wednesday night cooking (boys that cook = good thing). He made salmon cakes for brunch and pumpkin pie for dinner. I made deviled eggs and caviar for brunch and stuffing for dinner. A lot of stuffing.

We woke up way too early to run the 5K. Though once again, I ran the entire distance (which I wasn't able to do until only a few races ago), I was actually slower than my last 5K, and way slower than my goal. I don't know why. But I must not have pushed myself very hard, because usually after a 5K, my legs ache at least a bit, and so far they've barely been stiff. But, congrats to Sarah who finally broke 30 minutes!

At brunch, one of Kennda's friends spotted all my Star Trek books (and trashy fantasy, such Peirs Anthony and Anne McCaffrey) on the bottom rows of my bookshelves. I like to joke that they are the bottom shelf because I like people to look at the middle shelves filled with books that have a bit more literary merit. Yet a total stranger noticed them in about 30 seconds flat. Of course, I think he may have noticed them because his reading interests are similar to mine. I really have a lot of books. I outta do something about that.

Dinner was a little more casual than brunch. I was very impressed at Josh and Paul's preparation of the turkey. Even though I don't eat turkey, I was a bit worried about them when I heard that Sarah told them they should start defrosting their turkey and Paul responded "Don't worry, we have a bag." Yes, a non sequitor. As David pointed out this would only result in a more moist frozen turkey. But, Paul called 1-800-BUTTERBALL and figured every thing out.

After dinner, I was exhausted, but Dave and I ended up talking for several hours before I finally called it a night.

Today, I'm putting in about a half day of work, which is still a little less than I put on my timecard (due to the holiday, we had to fill it out on Monday, very inefficient). I was planning on coming in tomorrow to do some homework, I'll just squeeze in a couple of hours of real work too, in order to make up for it.

Its cold again. It was cold at the beginning of the week (low 30s), then it climbed to the low 80s. When I went to dinner it was still hot and humid. When I left dinner, it was downright chilly. Now, it must be in the 40s out. Houston is so weird.