Passing Through

Busy day at work today, but I'm home now and working up the strength to write an essay. I have to finish a 20-page paper before the 10th. This sounds relatively easy since the deadline is weeks away, but I have tremendous difficulty completing work without the pressures of an imminent deadline. Still, with Christmas on Thursday, and the mounting self-imposed guilt/stress, I'd like to make some headway on it tonight and tomorrow. I expect that if I actually put forth even the slightest amount of effort I could put a good dent into it.

I must have listened to this song about a dozen times today.

Just thought that I would update this blog since I haven't done so in a little while. It is natural to assume, therefore, that I am procrastinating.

I'm getting ready for Christmas which will be an unusual one this year. My sister and her family are going to be in England for a wedding, and my Dad is going on vacation to Vancouver. It would have been a good opportunity for my girlfriend's parents to meet my Dad, but neither she nor I could get the time off at Christmas as we are both very low on the seniority level. We won't get holidays at Christmas until we're in our 40s.

That means that I will be spending the few days off that I do have at home. M. and I are going to spend Christmas morning together and cook a nice dinner. We might go to the movies. I've never gone to the movies on Christmas Day before, but I've always thought that it must be a lot of fun. I expect that the number of people sneaking booze in must be higher on Christmas Day. Anyway, we're sticking fairly close to home and we're going to enjoy our 4 days off. With luck, the annual piss-up afternoon of World Junior Hockey will happen, too.