Today I'm going to brunch at my aunt & uncle's in Brookline and then going to see my cousin sing in Handel's Messiah . Should be a nice day, I hope. I even have put on makeup for the occasion!

I flipped through Time Magazine's photos of the year, and it's all Katrina, Katrina, Rita, Tsunami, Kashmir earthquake, Iraq, Katrina...by the time I left the waiting room, there'd been not one photo unrelated to a war or disaster.

eta: No, there was one, a woman from a country I don't remember who used all her savings to run for office and lost. So not like, happy, or anything.

Entering the years of the tracks. I have smart playlists that'll give me high rated songs from a particular decade. The CDDB isn't that good about putting years on, not to mention I need to give each track in a compilation their correct year.

I really need to do that, but it's so daunting! I have a ridiculous amount of compilation albums.

I am clearly insane, necause I woke up in an excellent mood and now want to go to the mall. I mean, we need to go to the mall to get one thing, but I WANT to go.

I hope flea has already left, because that's the kind of feeling you need to take advantage of ASAP.

I need to do some Christmas shopping online and pick up my apartment before my study date later.

This is so sad -- polar bears drown as Arctic ice melts:

SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.

The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.

[eta: As an antidote, I recommend looking at this picture of bunnies in cups, courtesy of CuteOverload.com.]

Damn. Certain individuals in the current administration who are in denial about global warming should be required to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. IJS.

Timelies all!

I have gotten all my holiday shopping done. Yay. Today I will watch eps of Samurai Jack, pay some bills and read fanfic.(Currently working my way through the archives of sga_flashfic)

Be sure to check out Shalott & Sperenza's Rumble video, Sheryl.

JZ and I slept in on a cold and rainy San Francisco morning. We've consumed oatmeal and cappucino, and now we are trying to imitate the face of the boxing cat recently featured on The Colbert Reporrr.

Damn. Certain individuals in the current administration who are in denial about global warming should be required to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. IJS.

I love this comment and want to marry it.

Ooh, I wanna live in New Zealand....

Santas go on rampage in New Zealand

40 drunken Claus imposters storm through city, wreaking ‘Santarchy’

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus costumes, many of them drunk, rampaged through New Zealand’s largest city, robbing stores and assaulting security guards, police said Sunday.

The rampage, dubbed “Santarchy” by local newspapers, began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty.

She said the men then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage containers, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on buildings.

I'n trying to decide if "Santarchy" is a good word. I mean, it's clever, but I'm not sure how smoothly it slides off the tongue...