all puffed up with vanity

So the end of December has arrived. I really didn't think I would survive this long. The month was brutal. Several very difficult papers and PhD applications had to be done. I actually have two to finish at this moment. I prefer to procrastinate and pay attention to my much neglected blog. I'd like to think that this is warming up. Perhaps it is?
After a week in Ohio at C's family I have returned to my usual spot in the Sloan library. I feel like I have created an ass groove for myself here. Two straight weeks of sitting here writing have had an effect I'm sure. I am still trying to recover from Ohio. I am getting more accustomed to being there for the holidays. It has been three years in a row at this point. However, C's mother still insists that we play the "roommates" game for his father. The poor man is old but he isn't stupid. You would think that after three years they would give up. I try to be the good doobie and play nice but it is a little frustrating. You would think my parents would have the issue since they are military. I guess there are some things that growing up in New England make more palatable. I keep forgetting that the mid-west is a whole 'nother world. To compensate for the weirdness C's mother goes on a shopping spree insisting on spending an equal amount on both C and I. This is something that I find very uncomfortable. I don't like people buying me things. If I want something I'll buy it. I don't do forced shopping. His mother made me search store after store until I found something I wanted. Like I said...weird. My parents will give us a x-mas card and that is pretty much it. Maybe we'll go out to dinner someplace nice in Newport but otherwise that is it. And I am fine with that.
C's mother did buy me the book "Traveling Music" by Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. I read it in two days. Great fun, great memoir. I am now in the midst of a rush music surge which hasn't happened in quite a while. It awakened the music nerd in me. I recently moved all of my Rush to my iPod but I am missing a few albums so I might head to Newbury this evening and catch up.
Topher's top 5 lists have also made me realise that I don't own any led zeppelin. I might have to go and get the box set.

I should get back to my statements...
blech!

names out.