Asymptomatic

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Secret Santa Redeux!
December 20, 2004

Man, I’m just the luckiest guy this Christmas! My Secret Santa had already sent a wonderful gift of the System of the World, but today a postcard arrived from Amazon informing me that she has ordered me a gift subscription to Interview magazine! Isn’t that cool?

Interview has been on my Amazon list for so long… I’m so glad that it’s finally coming. Mucho thanks to my Secret Santa, who will be revealed to me officially on Christmas. (I have a good idea who you are, but I don’t want to assume anything and post my foot into my mouth.)

Weird Wawa
December 17, 2004

I stopped at Wawa between dropping Abby off at school and going to work so I could get something to drink. (Wawa is the regional convenience store, named after a local farm, which was named after a tribe of indians.) A large van belonging to some car servicing company was parked oddly - it was blocking several prime parking spaces. I didn’t really get a good look at what was going on, but I was thinking, “That’s somewhat rude to just sit there and block all of those parking spots, not to mention the traffic flow, just so you can talk to your buddy while you drink your coffee.”

When I came out of Wawa, I realized what was going on.

EarthSea
December 16, 2004

I watched the rest of EarthSea last night, and I have several thoughts about it.

First, the director must have been a fan of the EarthSea books. You can tell because he allowed an amazing amount of detail from the book to fill in the parts of the movie that made no sense. It’s as if he applied his book knowledge to the characters in the movie, and as a result, those parts are missing.