Very Funny Christmas Commerical

The past few weeks have been loaded with final projects, final exams, and my qualifying exam. Now, it's time to kick-back for a few weeks and enjoy the mild winter. Ithaca has not even had a substantial snow this year. I realize today is the first day of winter, but Albuquerque had a ton of snow over the past few days. The weather machine is totally out of order.

Is anyone going anywhere exciting over the holidays? We're traveling down to NC over New Year's. It will be a short trip, but it should be tons of fun. Did I mention we're taking the mini-van! Oh yeah, I know everyone is jealous now. Honestly, I'm scared. A minivan has tons of cargo space. On the other hand our apartment does not, and I fear that we might be returning with stuff from NC that might otherwise find its way at the landfill. Even worse, did you know Ithaca has no decent stores at the mall? Oh, and the Syracuse mall is hardly worth a 20 minute drive--we are an hour away! So, I'm certain that we'll find ourselves at SouthPark to replace our tattered clothes.

What did you ask Santa for this year? (I'll be shocked if one person actually posts a comment answering this question.) Whatever you asked for, if it smells like beef and cheese (and it isn't actually beef and cheese) consider yourself cheated! If the last sentence made no sense to you, you have missed the movie Elf with Will Ferrell. Should you find yourself watching this film, notice how the elves are modeled from Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (see a funny critique of the film here). It looks like Buddy the Elf wears the same clothes as Papa Elf.

Finally, check out the video shown below. A friend of mine emailed this clip to me a week ago. It's pretty clever.