Lizzie: (reading out loud from our family's not-so-annual christmas letter) "Katherine graduated with honors from Berkeley in May and received a fellowship at UCLA where she is pursuing her doctorate in English. Lizzie is a sophomore at Cal State Long Beach studying Japanese. She has a job in "facilities" there and gets to drive the golf cart around campus. She's 20 minutes from Disneyland and is actually having fun without flunking out!"
Me: hmm.
Lizzie: (laughing) Oh, GREAT, Mom...GREAT. (mimic-y voice) "Katherine graduated from Berkeley. She's got a fellowship." And I have NEVER called my job "facilities." It's "facilities MANAGEMENT." And you forgot to put in here how I pick up TRASH. And I like the "actually having fun without flunking out part."
Me: Don't worry, Lizzie. Most people in our family will probably just think that I'm off with a ring and some hobbits.
Both: :::sigh:::

And then we talked about Family Guy and Lizzie did her (remarkably good) Stewie impression.

Because that's what the holidays are all about.

Random:

For Josie: You know your life is cool when you're totally hot and great and successful and have the greatest bf and bff and everything.

For Becca: I have been procrastinating all day. But I made a nice graph. And there's prospects of free food tomorrow, if I can just make it until then.

Other Stuff:
Why my day has been really good so far:
1. Got 2 1/2 full hours of work done before 11am.
2. Ran 3 miles before 12.
3. Had the biggest orange I've ever seen for lunch. Like, big as your head. If you're...a newborn. And have a small head.
4. Did laundry and came out with an even number of socks!
5. got to work on Austen paper! (okay, so really I just threw that one in there to buck myself up.)
6. Talked to Kay on the phone!!

Conversation with my Mom from earlier:
Mom: So did you guys give out the cookies you made?
Me: Oh yeah! People really seemed to like them. But they also seemed a little surprised and confused when we showed up to drop them off...
Mom: Well that's because they're used to dealing with academics. Regular grad students probably don't have enough time to do things like that, they're probably too bogged down in their books. Just wait until you get a real job, people in the real world know it's Christmas time.
Me: What? I...I have a real job!! I *totally* live in the real world!!! What are you TALKING about?
Mom: Oh, honey...

Absolutely nothing happened today. Really. Nothing. I mean, I am merely driven to blog because none of YOU people have updated yours. And I just finished a seminar paper. And no force on God's green earth short of SUBSTANTIAL monetary compensation will get me to look at my other two papers before tomorrow. So take that. I'd rather shred cheese, you know?

huh. maybe I should see this as a window of opportunity to totally revolutionize the art of blog writing by posting thoughts that occur to me on every average day and therefore are not noteable. Or should I say, blogable? (oh yes, I went there...) Hmm...or maybe it's an excuse to make the substance of a normal blog only seem revolutionary. Anyway. Here's a list of stuff that runs through my head lately on a normal day, in roughly chronological order:

not now.
stop it.
shut up.
no really, shut up.
oh, fine.
crap, it's cold out here.
I love hot showers.
What's this piece of hair doing?
I really will get decaf this time. I will. You watch me.
Not the christmas music again.
Feliz Navidad....Feliz Navidad...
bitch, please. (haha...because Katherine is my fellow starbucks junkie friend...)
Feliz Navidad...Feliz Navidad...
I wish I had purple book post-it tabs.
Caffine is bad for you.
I want chocolate.
I'm hungry.
Feliz Navidad...Feliz Navidad
I'll only watch tv until I'm done my lunch.
I want chocolate.
who's online?
has anyone updated their blog?
this hill really isn't so bad.
maybe I'll run faster.
My legs are going to FALL OFF. NOW.
no, NOW.
Feliz navidad...
maybe if I wear a different outfit, they won't notice that I'm the same person that comes here every night.
Caffine is bad for you.
Caffine is bad for you.
Feliz Navidad...

aaaaand repeat.

hmm...and I used to always get the theme song from The Price is Right stuck in my head.

Wonder which one is worse.