In which Ruth almost but not quite outs herself

[rthstewart]

Been there, done that, got the turkey coma (and a search at 11:30 PM last night for a grocery store that was still open and had fresh turkeys to accommodate my swelling gust list.  Yes, I cooked 2 turkeys this year as my list went from 7 to 15). 

We have a tradition that everyone at the table must identify a book or movie that was moving, interesting, or memorable in some way.  Two years ago at Thanksgiving, I went on and on about Roald Dahl and the Irregulars in Jennet Conant's book (and TQSiT was the result).  Last year I blathered about the Kladstrup Wine and War book (which I used for Maenad of the Maquis).. 

This year, it was gay giraffes, same sex paired albatrosses, and Biological Exuberance  and that remarkable wikpedia entry.  Apparently I was hilarious and articulate.  But really my wine soaked guests had difficulty getting passed the "OMG GAY GIRAFFES?"  We were very loud.  Good thing the kids were watching Jurassic Park.  I consider myself a pretty dull person in real life.  It's pretty funny when the stories you tell about the fic you saw in a porn challenge involving Pepsi and Coke and John Major and QE2 are memorable enough that people remember them the following year. 

Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it.  If not, I hope you  had a lovely day.  I am grateful to all my imaginary friends.

Comments

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so grateful for some of this information. I have a feeling that some of it will be extraordinarily handy in the future. And to answer min023, there is a LOT of variation for Christmas dessert. There is usually some kind of pie - apple, pecan, and pumpkin being the big ones - and in my grandmother's house it was coookies, cookies, cookies, at least six or seven kinds. She would make up platters of them, add some chocolates, and we would just demolish them during the three or four days around Christmas. She just turned 85, and I still crave her pecan pie.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Because this is such a WONDERFUL topic, I ended up just starting a post on it. But first, I may go have some apple butter pumpkin pie.