i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

Jed Bartlet: Morton, I can't pardon a turkey. If you think I can pardon a turkey, then you have got to go back to your school and insist that you be better prepared to go out in the world.
Donna: You can't pardon a turkey?
Jed Bartlet: No. I'll tell you what I can do. I'm drafting this turkey into military service.

Jed Bartlet: Stuffing should be stuffed inside the turkey, am I correct?
Butterball Hotline Operator: It can also be baked in a casserole dish.
Jed Bartlet: Well, then we'd have to call it something else, wouldn't we?
Operator: I suppose.
Jed Bartlet: If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I could kill my guests? I'm not saying that's necessarily a deal-breaker.

i'm thankful for every single one of you, who make me laugh, and commiserate with me, and share stories and pictures and squee with me, and for all of you who brightened my day by posting on the love meme. i'm thankful for the nc axis of evil, and its various satellite offices in canada and baltimore and the greater new england metro area, and for the carls, who've stuck with me through a million years of crazy and love me any how. i'm thankful for the fact that my beater of a car hasn't given up the complete ghost yet this year. i'm thankful that i live in a country that -- with all its flaws -- lets women get an education, and i'm thankful for the fact that i have an education. i'm thankful for good fiction and the food network and joe flanigan and library book sales and live music and college basketball season¹ and canada, which airs my tv shows before they air in the states. and i'm thankful for the boy, and my family, and his family, and that i'm alive, and happy, and safe and warm and secure.

happy thanksgiving, kids.

1: i am not thankful for the damn jesuits from gonzaga, though, and you can't make me be thankful for them! *pouts*