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Good morning and happy holidays from in front of the Yule log on tv.  Very festive.  I'm feeling much better today — thank you to everyone who said kind words earlier this week.  It means a lot to me.  I have this whole year-end wrap-up post to do, in which I will expound more on my love for all of you, but I'd be remiss if I didn't also thank you today.

Happy Yule!


 

It's the longest night of the year!  Somehow this year it didn't feel like it. I guess I just had too much to do.  Including but not limited buying myself a $7 block of Gouda and watching (and blogging about) the San Francisco Ballet's reimagined Nutcracker.  The production is set during the 1915 SF World's Fair, and uses the setting and the style of the Exhibition to wonderful effect.  Definitely recommended.  I'm pretty sure PBS will be repeating it this week.  Also, Maria Kochetkova is absolutely stunning, and she makes the Grand Pas De Deux literally worth crying over.

( Clara and her Prince, from the SF Ballet's Nutcracker )

I almost died while driving to work this morning, which did not but also did make me reevaluate my stance on this holiday season.  Melody gave me three wonderful adjectives to focus on, so we'll see how it all goes.  If nothing else, I will lie on the floor listening to Leonard Bernstein conduct The Rite of Spring, which I bought on vinyl for five shiny dollars the other day.  Also Erik Satie's piano pieces, which do amazing things for my soul.

I need to start thinking about goals for 2010 (beyond the oh so obvious "get into a fucking grad program and then figure out how to afford it"), but first I'm going to eat some more Gouda and then probably go to bed.

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The last days of a decade!  This year I'm feeling pretty melancholy about the whole thing, and I think it came through in my song selection.  We've got Christmas songs by Camera Obscura, Glasvegas, Ella remixed awesomely, Kristeen Young, Leighton Meester and others.  Then there's the motif of being cold or being warm, a badass rock song from one of my favorite Christmas movies, the new Frightened Rabbit song (oh god can I not wait for that album), and a couple other winter-y things.  It's a little somber overall, but that makes it all the better for putting on while you try to get warm under the covers at night.

So endless thanks to bodhipuff and her wonderful husband, and their awesome friends, for keeping me company and giving me that breakfast bar. And also for the idea of having Waffle House afterward, because that was the best.

And shouts out to musical_junkie, who I recognized because she was carrying her uke (!), and to house_kitten, who I didn't even get a chance to see.