Random lists

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Things that annoyed me

• Randomly flipping open Paste magazine to get music recs only to find people decrying a past Kanye West cover story in letters to the editor. "We don't like rap! Why do you write about rap? All this awful stuff about skanky hos!"


• Getting the Gourmet magazine to drool over the pictures and the recipes, reading the letters to the editor on a past issue on Latin@ food and culture only to find several of them going off on how irresponsible it is for the magazine to glorify Latin@ culture when all this illegal immigration is ruining the country OH NOES!

I would just like magazines for the plane ride that don't make me want to throw something, is that too much to ask?

Things that amused me

• The insane amount of people at Whole Foods. I always forget how crazy Thanksgiving here is.


• The insane amount of food pre-ordered by people at Whole Foods. I goggled at the piles and piles and piles of bags and boxes.


• Random things people left everywhere in Whole Foods because they didn't want to put them back. Included was a box of cranberries on top of a display of sodas, and a lonely yam abandoned by bottled water. It looked very sad.

Things that are happy

• Fondue for dinner! Alas, I forgot to bring my camera for food pictures.


• Thanksgiving plans! This year it is just me and my sister, and I think we are already planning too much, even though it's just a chicken, green bean casserole, dumplings, and mashed potatoes. I am dorkily excited about green bean casserole, which I have not made or really had before. Casseroles! So weird.


• I am in New York!