merry christmas.

yet another winter gift-giving holiday.

w00t, etc.

i'm not even awake yet ^_^

i don't know what proportion of you this is relevant too, but the 11pm christmas eve service last night came off really well. hopefully the podcast will be able to go up. it was just very, very cool.

time to wrap presents and make pancakes.

snow.

holy shit, it snowed. quite a bit. although we didn't get as much as some people. still going to have to dig the car out, nevertheless.

following the advice of some friends, who were also snowbound last night, we made a fire and hot chocolate. yum.

1 heaping t unsweetened cocoa powder
2 level t sugar
(adjust to you preferred levels of sweetness and chocolateyness)

1. put into a mug and mix together.

2. pour in just enough milk to make a sludge. stir vigorously until all the cocoa is wet.

3. microwave for 30 seconds to melt the chocolate

4. stir the hot mixture again until it's more or less smooth

5. while stirring, fill up the mug with milk. microwave for 2 minutes.

completion.

last paper finished last night. now it's just waiting to be taken to the post office (has to be postmarked by today).

first semester of graduate school completed successfully.

w00t. or something.

anyone know if starbucks is hiring?

happy hannukah.

since i'm going to be making latkes for a party next week, we just went to dunkin' donuts tonight. sufganiyot they're not, but they are fried.

also, via wired comes this. i don't know whether to laugh or cry.

fuck google analytics.

i am so sick of having firefox practically fucking hang because of google analytics. half the fucking time i try to load a webpage, i get the status bar stuck at "waiting for google analytics..."

yes i know, it's a great way to get info on your page visitors, stats, blah blah fucking blah. it's slow.

half the reason i started blocking ads was because i was getting sick of pages not being able to load because the damn browser was waiting for content from a third-party site.

come back tomorrow, and i'll tell you how i really feel ;)