Random bullets of preparing for the holidays
- The nice thing about this time of year is that you can give in to your impulses to do the most soothing activity on earth: baking.
- I know that administrators and support staff are still in the office, but grades are in (hooray!) and I am not. Do you really think I'm going to work on task force/committee/other service things this week? No? Then why do you keep sending me things? I'm guessing it's the "tennis ball school of time management": you lob it to my desk so it's off your desk.
- After all these years, I actually associate listening to holiday music with working on papers for MLA. How sick is that?
- The "buy local" thing is going pretty well, but I would like to give retailers once piece of advice: if you are any store that does not cater to children, playing Alvin and the Chipmunks as holiday music is a surefire way to send adults scurrying for the exits whether they've bought their virtuous local goods or not.
- About buying local: yes, some things cost more than on Amazon. I just bought fewer things this year. It's not about things.
- Technology brings us many gifts this time of year, including this one: If you are going to MLA and are not yet anxious about it, just check out anything on Twitter with an MLA hashtag. I guarantee you will start to fret and hyperventilate--or is that just me and is everyone else excited about it?
This post began with the comforting thought of baking at home, veered into the annoying sound of those god awful Chipmunks and then ended with anxiety-triggering references to The Beastly MLA.
ReplyDeleteOMG. And, yes, the Christmas Music=MLA link is very very wrong.
:-)
I have kids and I don't want to hear the Alvin song, either. ;)
ReplyDeleteV--I know -- so wrong! I want to write a more comforting post soon.
ReplyDeleteInk-- that's the persistent mystery: no one wants to hear it, and yet . . . It never goes away. If I were conspiracy-minded, I'd say it's a plot.