Vacation!

It's very weird to have something of a winter break when you're not in school anymore. When in school, it's expected. When not, it's a gift, but a very strange gift, since not many people get it.

The show doesn't tape for two weeks during the holidays, and everyone works ridiculous hours when we do tape, so they pretty much shut down for the length of the holidays.

So now, I've got nothing to do until January 5th except go survive a week in Connecticut with my insane relatives, sit on the beach, and watch all the movies sitting on my TiVo.

It's also not like I'm going to be missing my paycheck, since I'm not so much getting one right now. Thank god for little things like savings and the ability to mooch heavily.

It is going to be a little weird to not be able to socialize with the folks at work. One thing that I really undervalue about having a job is actually getting out of the house all the time and talk face to face to real people.

I'm kind of sad too because a couple of the really kickass other interns are gone now, so it's gonna be a bit odd to be back with a new batch of interns plus one or two from before.

But overall, it's gonna be nice to be able to sit around and do basically nothing except maybe give my apartment a thorough cleaning for the next couple of weeks.

I Am Such A Sixth-Grader

Because I cannot stop laughing at this headline, even when co-workers give me the evil eye for doing so.

Stolen from Dave Barry's Weblog

They Have No Idea How Right They Are

From The Onion:

Network Pushes The 'Dumbing It Down' Envelope
LOS ANGELES—Already home to Extreme Makeover, Trista & Ryan's Wedding, and According To Jim, the ABC television network is now looking to develop some really, really, really dumb shows, network sources announced Monday. "With all the competition in television, we have to make the ABC brand stand out," said Susan Lyne, president of ABC Entertainment. "That's why we want a slate of projects that will out-dumb the dumb shows like Whoopi, The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and The Next Joe Millionaire." ABC's pilot orders for Fall 2004 include The Naked Ladies, Extreme Explosions, and America's Shiniest Objects.

Irritating

You know what annoys me? Well, a lot of things. But this morning, it's inexplicable pronunciations.

I was semi-watching Headline News, as I do in the mornings, and they had a story about sinusitis. Except they were pronouncing it "sine-you-site-is," and doing so every 2 seconds.

Not only was the newscaster pronouncing it like that, but so was the Medical Expert Of The Day, who probably told the newscaster that's how it's pronounced.

I have always pronounced it (and always heard medical professionals pronounce it) "sinus-itis," since it's, you know, an inflamation of the sinuses. Not the sineyouses.

It probably wouldn't irritate me so much if they weren't saying it every 2 seconds. But it really got under my skin. But at least it didn't irritate my sineyouses.

Any pre-meds or bio students want to correct my pronunciation?

OK, Northwestern, Top This!

The Washington Redskins lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 27-0. They gained a total of 161 yards. THE ENTIRE GAME!

If Northwestern chokes worse than that at the Motor City Bowl, I'm not sure whether I'll be disappointed or impressed.

Continued Adventures In Stupid Injuries

It can't top the Tomato Sauce Incident, but as I was getting ready to bring my laundry downstairs, I somehow managed to cut myself on a laundry basket.

It's not like it's a wooden laundry basket that has things poking out everywhere, either. It's just your standard issue plastic laundry basket with holes in the side.

I was trying to compress my laundry so I wouldn't leave a Hansel-and-Gretel-like trail of socks from my apartment to the laundry room, and my finger caught on one of the holes.

I thought it had just scraped some skin off, but given my recent string of stupid injuries, I should have known that the next time I looked at my hand it would be bleeding semi-profusely.

You know, I have a bunch of really sharp knives in this apartment, and I cut bagels every day at work. Have I ever gotten a cut from one of these normal slicing apparatus? No.

Apparently, I can only injure myself in contrived and ridiculous ways.