why with my regal beezer i could be another caesar if i only had a drink

alright, y'all. I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. I know mine...was um...eventful? Drunken certainly. I saw a lot of people i like, a lot of good friends that i haven't seen in a while. So that was cool. Also saw a few people i don't particularly care for. Namely a good portion of my extended family.

But hey, that's why Benjamin Franklin invented alcohol. and jack daniels took a swig and exclaimed "I will found an entire civilization upon this sort of beverage" and jim beam said "me too!" and so they got to fighting. meanwhile a young samuel adams was taking notes in the corner - he had been searching for a way to get women to sleep with him at frat parties. And captain morgan went wee wee wee wee all the way to the caribbean. because he ain't got a home. now is it whee like an exclamation or wee like urination? i think the urination makes more sense in this context - assuming that captain morgan is a business drunk, which is easy to be if your business is piracy - because remember kids - alcohol is a diuretic.

but fer real folks, I remember earlier this fall when i considered how someday thanksgiving would come, and I would eat lots and lots of food for free. and what a concept for a young, poor, starving man. but as always, i had to sit through some family guff. and now it's all gone. i have had some good times with some good friends with good food and good booze. well, alcohol of varying qualities.

anyhoo, i reckon this thanksgiving is the first time i have felt legitimately thankful. serious gratitude. for all of my friends. all the generous, lovely people in my life. am i supposed to give thanks to, or give thanks for? or both? well i would like to do both. so here and there you are, wonderful human beings of my reality. Thanks. And you know, as much trouble as i have had this whole semester with life in general (but a lot having to do with being effing poor). maybe it's true that money can't buy happiness. maybe i'll move to the middle east and become an ascetic. or perhaps i'll just stick around here and be an aesthete.

but then, perhaps i'm only realizing my contentment because i have done somewhere around zero homework and i am at my home in grand haven, and i just find the paradox rather humorous - i can't do homework at home. since my college years, this house has become a complete mental sanctuary from academics. I just sit around, watch tv, and eat. all day. it is ridiculous. and there is so much to do before the end of the semester. it is completely vulgar how much i have to do in the next three weeks.

so don't be mad at me if i don't write another one o' these for awhile.
though it's kinda early (and kinda late too i guess, what with thanksgiving and all)...

...happy holidays.

i know its coming. i can see the light. al otro lado del rio.