Done!!!

I'm done with my finals! The stress of the semester is over! At last, I can relax and spend a decent amount of time with my wife.

Now, I can get on with the Christmas shopping.

Possessed

Lauren and I went out today and took pictures together in the snow. Unfortunately, as this picture shows, I appear to be possessed by some kind of goblin.



Fortunately, he didn't come out for EVERY picture.



Merry Christmas!

I love me some David Sedaris

It's no secret that I love David Sedaris. Earlier this year, I blogged about how I tried (unsuccessfully) when I was single to use one of his books as a dating activity.

On the episode of This American Life from two weekends ago, they included a fantastic reading by David Sedaris. Do yourself a favor and take the time to listen to this. I cropped out the Sedaris portion from the rest of the show and made it the audio for a movie, with a picture of him as the only video.
Enjoy this.

(from "This American Life, 11.21.08, #104: "Music Lessons")

I think I could have cropped out everything else, and just played his Billie Holiday version of the Oscar Meyer commercial jingle, and that by itself would have been hilarious enough.

If you're really interested, the This American Life website has an archive of all of their episodes. On the episode broadcast on Halloween of this year, the last portion of the show is another David Sedaris piece (it begins at 41:56), in which he describes his thoughts and experiences when he volunteered at a city morgue for a few days. Hilarious.