Friday Before Thanksgiving

I am already planning what to buy tomorrow, which is the last day one can get quality groceries from mainstream American stores. After tomorrow, one has to wait until after Thanksgiving for the stores to refill its shelves to the normal level.

This year will be the first year in my life that I encounter the shortage of rice flours, rice noodles, and sticky rice products, except my years living on the border of Mongolian steppe. I am expected to go to the Asian stores tomorrow to see the price of these items skyrocketing. It is a routine movie scene that when the price of basic rice products shoot up too high, poor people would form a mob to start a rice riot, beat up the merchants, smash the stores. However I hope that kind of lawless scenes only happen in movies and never happen in real life.

I am also going to go to Trader Joe’s for its turkey, both real and vegetarian version. For the last two years, I haven’t been able to obtain the vegan version since it is so popular. This is the occasion when I wish there are not so many vegans living in the vicinity. In all the other occasions, I wish there are more vegans who can help push for more vegan products.

I am also going through advertisement flyers to plan Black Friday trips. I want to buy an air fryer. I mean not a basic one, but a really good one that has the capacity and capability and the volume to cook a very big meal. I also want a new computer. Right now I am having two old computers, neither satisfactory though.

I hope this is not much ado about nothing. I know I can live just as happily without the above.

I still need to help a person with interviewing, a tough one, and coming up with a better beginning for a very boring description of a productive life. This person has worked so hard, but his description can’t invoke any sympathy or admiration from his readers. On the other hand, another person, who doesn’t work half as hard, can write an account of his life that resonates with his readers and get much more sympathy. How can this happen?

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