Misc.

American Gangster: long, languid, dull-ish, but sort of interesting as far as the story. Denzel Washington=completely impressive. The Departed: ten times more entertaining on every level.

Enchanted: Unsurprisingly delightful. I've talked before about how fantastic I think Amy Adams is, and she proved it again here. Just a peachy keen holiday movie good time.

Football games: Fun when you're with your brother and your mom even when it's really, really cold and your team loses in triple overtime and squanders its shot at the national championship.

Sushi: Delicious. Consumed with B. and his school friends tonight as they talked about things I did not remotely understand. Though my crunchy roll was a bit puny.

Weird: Not having Thanksgiving in N.O. for the first time in my life that I can remember and my sister being in South America instead of with us. The Katrina-flooded convent where we've always had it is still not fixed. The house we went to last year in lieu of the convent is no longer available due to family strife. (Not our family, but our dear family friend who is like family's family.) I called my aunt early Thursday morning to tell her it was Bizarro Thanksgiving and had to fight back the tears. Embarrassing, sort of. So we just had it at our house! Very small and quiet but enjoyable and with tons of my mom's excellent cooking. Baked turkey, fried turkey, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, broccoli casserole, rolls, cabbage crunch salad, ice cream dessert, cookies. My dad read aloud an e-mail from my sister, and we all laughed and cried. (Well, I cried.)

The weather the entire weekend: Vile beyond belief.

Group projects at school: Utterly sucktastic in every way. Not the people, just the organization and the experience and the ridiculousness of trying to pull it all together this late in the game. UGH!!! Don't even get me started; it is making me unreasonably upset and crazy.

I don't know what else to say. Except that my sister will be here Saturday, which is not soon enough for me.