pre-thanksgiving thoughts.

i am quite proud of myself. while i thought it would be a sleepless weekend spent unsuccessfully trying to get my programming assignment to work, i left the lab by midnight on both saturday and sunday nights, and finished it around 9pm monday, and turned it in a whole 3 hours early! it wasn't working quite perfectly, but the one thing that was questionable was so minute (occasional flickering when using squad interpolation for motion blending) that it really wasn't worth it.

tomorrow is thanksgiving. my flight to manchester is tomorrow morning at 7.45, which means i need to catch a train over to the airport no later than 6am, probably earlier since there will definitely be thanksgiving congestion once i'm there. from there i have to catch a shuttle down to boston. weee... i hate the traveling part of traveling.

this weekend is a much anticipated one for several reasons:

_the last time my whole family was together was over christmas/new year's last year when we all took a trip to spain.

_john+cindy just had a baby boy last week, so i have a new nephew to meet and play with. also, i haven't seen my niece, natalie, in almost a year and she is quite possibly the most adorable and smartest little girl i've ever met in my life.

_probably most pertinent to me, is that theodore will be there to meet my family for the first time. before now, he's only met john, cindy and natalie. now he meets everyone at the same place and time. luckily, baby dylan will probably be the center of attention and that will make it easier to avoid awkward situations. i still remember the first time i told my parents and harv about him. it was during spring break of my freshman year, and we were visiting hawaii. we'd just eaten at a restaurant that a friend had recommended (that charged $12 for a single pan-seared scallop that we split four ways). in no way did i think he would still be a part of my life two and a half years later, much less actually meeting my family. anyway, i can only hope for the best.

_and last but not least, it is rumored that we are having a turducken this year (for those that don't know, that's a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken, and no, i'm not kidding). omg, i've never had one before and it sounds TASTY! can't wait for the tryptophan-induced food coma. bring it on!