My Shakespeare professor decided to send us off to Thanksgiving weekend (Shakespeare was my last class for this week until Monday! Woohoo!) by playing a rotten trick on the folks who started their vacation early and didn’t come to class today. He passed out a class exercise for the play we’re reading right now, and next week we’ll be turning the exercise in for points. Watch the AWOL Shakespearean scholars start screaming.

However you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you have a great time. Me? I’m gonna get crackin’ on a 12-page (minimum) whopper that’s due next week, plan for Thursday’s lunch with the family, and finish reading George Orwell’s 1984.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Y’ALL!

UPDATE: A couple links for your perusal. Cam Edwards takes on some college grinches who want to pour gravy on Turkey Day (methinks they’ve been smelling too much ink in the newsroom). I mean, I can get pretty cynical/sarcastic, but I still enjoy the turkey. And the WSJ published a nice Thanksgiving tribute to our troops by Karl Zinsmeister on their op-ed page.

(links via Jay and the Instaman, respectively)

UPDATE II: Uhh…HELLO? I pronounce it as Nev-AH-da, and it’s certainly allowed. California memo to the reporter who wrote this stupid article: you’re doing a poor job trying to make the prez look dumb. Try harder next time. (via Jay again!)

Okay, okay, I’m gone for real. See ya on the other side.