Happy Thanksgiving from China!

I am writing this at 9:40 PM China time, which is 7:40 AM on the morning of Thanksgiving Day.  I greet you, people of the past.  Your ways are quaint.

I have little to say at the moment, as there has been a lot going on at work and in life in general...but little of it is particularly interesting.  Mostly it's tiring, and that means my energy to continue History Bites or explore other ideas/concepts/topics is quite insufficient.

Today I went to an American barbecue-style place, Texas Smoke Haus.  They had a special Thanksgiving Dinner thing.  Pretty much all the traditional trappings; green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, Hawaiian rolls (how exactly did this become a Thanksgiving standard anyway?)...the dumpling-shaped thing in the top left corner is a fried apple pie.  And of course the turkey, in the form of an enormous turkey leg.  The coworker with whom I went commented that it was vaguely Renaissance Faire-esque.

Whatever it was, it was quite good, and I'll be wandering back that way to see how the rest of their food is.  It'll be nice to find something familiar.  I love Chinese food, and I've had very little here that I didn't like, but comfort food is comfort food and it's usually what you grew up eating.

Anyway.  I wanted to put something up for Thanksgiving; it isn't celebrated here, of course (Christmas music started a couple days ago), but most of this blog's readers (and its author) being American, it couldn't exactly be passed up.

Zaijian!

-L