December 24, 2010

  • Kind of full...lots of sap.

    Posted by Sammy

    1pm

    Christmas Eve 

    From Home

     

    So I was wandering around this building the other day. It seemed like a nice place. Comfy too. There was a cat running around loose and lots of gadgets laying around. Then I realized I live here. There is a big difference between days of for someone like me. A free Saturday morning is cool. Relaxing, maybe a movie or something, but youre always on your toes and playing catchup, wondering what the week will bring. Snow days are, well snow days. I really love what I do so its not like I want to not go to work. I actually want to go. Then there is momentary joy over getting to sleep in...always nice, which is immediately replaced with horror at the thought of lost rehearsal time and the onset of snow-brain amongst students who want nothing more than to be spared another day of OGT preparation. But extended break days....oooooh those are speical. Christmas, Spring and Summer break time. Its the feeling that even for juts one or two days....sometimes a few more you have NOTHING to do. In the words of the cinematic giant Office Space: I did nothing. And it was everything I thought it could be and more. Everyone deserves a day to do nothing every now and then. To just stop and be a blob. I think you have to earn it, but if you do it is joyous. :D

    Two things tend to jerk me out of my posting slackerhood: Christmas and road trips. Both are food for writing and the next two weeks bring both of those things. Obviously Christmas is tomorrow (hooray) then were off to Texas for warm(er) weather, a checkup and new years with some great friends. Should be quite the whirlwind day at MD Anderson: scans in the am, Dr Benny in the pm and all on the first day he is back after a break. Yeah thats gonna run on time. So here's hoping for yet another clean scan (jan 3 if youd like to pencil it into ye ol' prayer calendar) 

    Speaking of Christmas...I hear tell we are now pretty much letting anyone make a Christmas music album. Evidence? Bieber. Blarg. Id rather listen to the jingle bells dogs. On loop. From the Clockwork Orange chair. If ever we needed the Krampus to follow Santa to someone's house....yeah. What is Krampus you may ask? Leave it to Europe, the home of Vikings, trolls and liederhosen to come up with such an, um, interesting idea:

    From Wikipedia: The word Krampus originates from the Old High German word for claw (Krampen). In the Alpine regions, the Krampus is represented by an incubus demon accompanying Saint Nicholas. Krampus acts as an anti–Saint Nicholas, who, instead of giving gifts to good children, gives warnings and punishments to the bad children. Traditionally, young men dress up as the Krampus in the first two weeks of December, particularly in the evening of December 5, and roam the streets frightening children and women with rusty chains and bells. In some rural areas the tradition also includes birching by the Krampus, especially of young females. (thanks to our buddy Flint for the Wikipedia info)

    Im pretty sure our little crooner fits the criteria for a visit from Ol Krampy. Oh well...voices deepen, hair styles go out....those 15 minutes will be over soon enough. Want proof? Anyone remember Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Little Simba? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Taylor_Thomas? Yep didn't think so. Our Christmas record collection will be safe once again....at least until Wham! makes a reunion

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!