Xmas
Merry Xmas! And a belated Happy Channukah to all our Jewish and fellow honorary Jewish friends!
This is my first, actual day off in a long, long time. I can't complain though. This has been a great December. Many fantastic occurrences. It all started on Dec. 3rd when Magdalene and I saw Owen, then hung out with Mike Kinsella for the night. This you may remember from my last blog. Since then, I survived the semester, receiving an A- in each class. Not too shabby. Also, I won an essay contest in my Methods I class. We had to write an essay as if we were going to submit it to the Teacher-to-Teacher column in the English Journal. The essays were submitted to an undergrad class sans names, and my class received the undergrad class' essays. Both classes selected their favorite essays from the other class and three winners were chosen from each class. Mine was one of the Graduate level essays chosen. I was shocked, I assure you. I, also, won a sales contest at work for selling the most Pumas in my region (I believe that's what happened). My prize was a $125 Puma computer bag. I was surprised at how nice the bag is. These are the first times I have won anything big since the jelly bean contest at the Dowling College Easter Egg Hunt when I was 10-yrs-old. I hope this doesn't mean a heap of bad events will befall me now. My fingers will remain crossed for a while.
Sean was quite surprised by his Xmas present. A bunch of his friends and I got together and bought him a brand new, Martin electric/acoustic guitar. It took a lot of work to get everyone to sign the card without Sean finding out, but it was worth it. Sean's a great friend and deserved to have this done for him. I'm sure Celia feels the same, especially now that Sean has proposed to her. He did it in a really sweet way, although he set the bar rather high for everyone else with the way he did it.
I watched Cars this morning. That was fun. I'm going to watch The Benchwarmers in a minute. I have some time to kill before my brother and his fiance, Donna, stop by so we can have Xmas here. These days, we do Xmas late in the afternoon, since no one else lives here, except me & my parents. It's ok though. I like the lack of pressure. And it delays the celebration so it builds up the anticipation.
Also, I donated $100 to the Callum Robbins Family Fund. This is a fund set up to help Callum Robbins, the son of J. Robbins (Jawbox/Burning Airlines/Channels), who was diagnosed with Type 1 SMA, or Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I figured, J. Robbins' music has been a big part of my life for many years, and has influenced me in many ways. The least I could do was donate to the fund set up to help him and his wife with medical bills for their child. If you're interested in donating, go to Desotorecords.com and you'll find a link.
Yesterday at work was fun. I have great co-workers, so it's not so bad having to work all the time. Frank and I even bought each other the same present. A Patron Anejo gift box. Too funny.
Ok, I have a movie to watch. Later.
-Sergei xo
Song of the Day:
Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
This is my first, actual day off in a long, long time. I can't complain though. This has been a great December. Many fantastic occurrences. It all started on Dec. 3rd when Magdalene and I saw Owen, then hung out with Mike Kinsella for the night. This you may remember from my last blog. Since then, I survived the semester, receiving an A- in each class. Not too shabby. Also, I won an essay contest in my Methods I class. We had to write an essay as if we were going to submit it to the Teacher-to-Teacher column in the English Journal. The essays were submitted to an undergrad class sans names, and my class received the undergrad class' essays. Both classes selected their favorite essays from the other class and three winners were chosen from each class. Mine was one of the Graduate level essays chosen. I was shocked, I assure you. I, also, won a sales contest at work for selling the most Pumas in my region (I believe that's what happened). My prize was a $125 Puma computer bag. I was surprised at how nice the bag is. These are the first times I have won anything big since the jelly bean contest at the Dowling College Easter Egg Hunt when I was 10-yrs-old. I hope this doesn't mean a heap of bad events will befall me now. My fingers will remain crossed for a while.
Sean was quite surprised by his Xmas present. A bunch of his friends and I got together and bought him a brand new, Martin electric/acoustic guitar. It took a lot of work to get everyone to sign the card without Sean finding out, but it was worth it. Sean's a great friend and deserved to have this done for him. I'm sure Celia feels the same, especially now that Sean has proposed to her. He did it in a really sweet way, although he set the bar rather high for everyone else with the way he did it.
I watched Cars this morning. That was fun. I'm going to watch The Benchwarmers in a minute. I have some time to kill before my brother and his fiance, Donna, stop by so we can have Xmas here. These days, we do Xmas late in the afternoon, since no one else lives here, except me & my parents. It's ok though. I like the lack of pressure. And it delays the celebration so it builds up the anticipation.
Also, I donated $100 to the Callum Robbins Family Fund. This is a fund set up to help Callum Robbins, the son of J. Robbins (Jawbox/Burning Airlines/Channels), who was diagnosed with Type 1 SMA, or Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I figured, J. Robbins' music has been a big part of my life for many years, and has influenced me in many ways. The least I could do was donate to the fund set up to help him and his wife with medical bills for their child. If you're interested in donating, go to Desotorecords.com and you'll find a link.
Yesterday at work was fun. I have great co-workers, so it's not so bad having to work all the time. Frank and I even bought each other the same present. A Patron Anejo gift box. Too funny.
Ok, I have a movie to watch. Later.
-Sergei xo
Song of the Day:
Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
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