merry christmas

as retribution for a few good night's sleep, the universe (or my neck) made thursday night a nightmare in which i was in so much pain that i couldn't sleep until about 4am, and i woke up yesterday still hurting and dizzy and exhausted. i got through yesterday (it calmed down after a few more hours) but i was still slow and basically took a full day to do less than half a day's work, which did not feel good. at all.

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gd's documents finally arrived! and we *just* managed to catch our rabbi in time (before he disappeared for a week's vacation) to get another document updated, hopefully we'll get our interview invite soon.

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i tried to purchase the ps3 king's quest collection today, but the playstation store website is broken. after giving up, i've just installed the king's quest series on my old windows machine and we'll find out tomorrow if mr smear is ready for a (relatively) text-based adventure!

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this morning being christmas, and my child possessing the critical thinking faculties of a six year old, and my wife accommodating the santa klaus thing in spite of us all having had a very serious conversation about jews and christmas, we had two conflicting experiences: the first, him waking up excitedly to find santa's hat - convincing evidence, of course, that ol' saint nick had been here, eaten the oat energy bars and dropped off the present - and the second, that i was telling him about this week's parasha and we ended up watching joseph: king of dreams before "zoomagogue" which was surprisingly good in spite of the less-than-inspiring soundtrack (even my six year things the music is super cheesy and the singing is far from heartfelt).

speaking of which: gd was talking about having a heart murmur today and i told her she was heart-lithp.

we spent this afternoon with hido's family and had a really great time! and then came home and jumped in the pool, which was also great. now we're arguing over whether to put on the hogfather or the nightmare before christmas.