A Very Special Set of Thanksgiving Anniversaries

(that’s @carsondial@mastodon.social, btw)

This upcoming week will be a double anniversary! Not only is it five years since buying this house in Cincinnati (but not actually living in it - that’s next year), but it is also twenty years since my first-ever Thanksgiving in America! Which was vaguely documented on the blog at the time.

What my somewhat annoyingly terse entries of the time lack, mind you, is just how horrible that weekend was. It was probably the final straw that saw me wanting to throw in the towel on the course just a week later. Because my dorm was shut for the holiday, those of us that had nowhere to go were transferred to another dorm, where we were sleeping six to a room. I don’t have a complete recollection of that time, but what I remember is that I slept there on Wednesday night, and then spent the rest of the weekend sleeping in my TA office at Sitterson Hall, watching My So-Called Life on DVD and struggling to get a handle on some assignments that were due the week after. God knows what I actually ate, and thankfully the building had showers so I wasn’t a disgusting mess by Sunday, but it was such a wretched few days, and perhaps the loneliest part of my time at UNC.

On the bright side, every Thanksgiving since has been a lot better! And hopefully that continues next week - seven of us, enough roast potatoes to sink a battleship, and a healthy-just-over-double-figures number of desserts. Totally sane.

Finally for the week, the art for my third comic story (of four!) has come in and it looks fantastic. Now if I could just come up with a good title for it, that would be grand…