Better to be heard than to be seen

I'm in the middle of the most insane school week I've ever witnessed or even heard of, but I wanted to take a moment to thank my Mom and Dad who equipped Sara and me with several gifts to be opened before Christmas, all wrapped nice and pretty while we were at their house for Thanksgiving.

Thanks Mom and Dad!

The best thing about being able to open them now, is that we won't have to truck them along with us on our 5 state and 1 territory Winter vacation jaunt that starts this Saturday and contributes to this week being so insane for me. For those of you who don't know the details yet, we're off to Seattle, Washington where I have a job interview with Microsoft, while Sara visits Juneau, Alaska for work. I meet her up there and then we'll fly to Utah for Christmas, then to Los Angeles for a friends wedding, then back to Utah, then to Hawaii for another of Sara's business trips and then on to the U.S. territory of Guam on the other side of the date line before coming back for hopefully a more relaxing semester at Brown.

Some of the fun presents included some candy treats and cookies, a cute little pillow, and a magazine for Sara to read on her business flights, really fun and thoughtful gifts. But one of the presents we opened yesterday was a DVD of the forgotten carols. Since we were cleaning up our house, we popped it into the DVD player and started playing it while we were in other rooms cleaning up.

Now, I like listening to the forgotten carols, well, some of them I love, others I don't mind and still others make me want to torture kittens (more than normal) - if you "cry every time you take the tree down" then maybe you should leave the darn thing up all year round, or buy another house to live in during the non Christmas months or something. I would rather listen to this dog bark out an endless stream of Jingle Bells than hear that song every again.

Like I said, I like listening to the forgotten carols CD, but I'm fairly certain that my parents have never watched this DVD. It is ridiculous, the silly costumes, the sappy looking audience shots, and worst of all the inability to skip through every Afterglow song and the aforementioned tree mourning song. So, I recommend that you stick with the CD, because sometimes seeing people trying to perform a song distracts from the beauty of just hearing it.

Now, back to trying not to have 3 months of work flushed down the toilet by not getting final projects done in the next 4 days.