Happy Pumpkin Pie Day!

Happy Thanksgiving! I spent the day in Irvine, since the Oceanside crew had Thanksgiving plans with their other sides of the family. My friends got together and we had a great dinner. Sho, a visiting fellow from Japan, celebrated his first Thanksgiving with us. He seemed to have a great time taking in this very American tradition. It was a dinner of firsts for him- first tastes of turkey and first tastes of pumpkin pie. Of course, we have photos to commemorate the event:

I have been spending the day after Thanksgiving hard at work on data sets and lit reviews. Progress is slow but sure, and my impatient self can't wait to be done. We have 3 weeks left of the quarter, and it is hard to believe that I'll soon be in the blustery cold of Minnesota.

In other news, it was simultaneously a happy day in California and a sad day in Minnesota: Torii Hunter is trading his Twins uniform for an Angels uniform. It has been strange to see such a familiar face covered in the LA Times these past couple days. It will be even stranger to see him in Center field, wearing red, next spring.