like an old man easing into a warm bath

happy holidays! holy like wow! i'm a really big christmas fan, and so i've been loving the past week. i've made christmas cookies, gone shopping, listened to cats meow "silent night" (along with over 15 other christmas classics!)... i think the snow helps. frontloading also helped, now with only a presentation tomorrow and the oral final next week, i can turn my attention towards happier things. like sleigh bells.
so, i took kringla to work and sold it today. i wasn't sure how it was going to work out, but i made $20 selling two and a half dozen cookies. i'm going to call it a pretty decent success. because, i mean, that more than covers ingredients, and i enjoyed the time in the kitchen, so i don't really count that as labor... so, you know, profit!
anyway, only two more class periods to go. then it will be tomorrow. and then it will be tomorrow afternoon...and that will be awesome. dances will be danced. songs will be sung. shots will be chased.
i really hope jeff's surgery went well. worst time to get injured ever.
also, holiday party at Keri's. huzzah. but will there be eggnog? do people actually enjoy eggnog, or is it just tradition, like haggis? i mean, generally i have about a cup and a half of eggnog every year. while drinking the first cup i think to myself "man, i really enjoy this. why don't we have this all year?" however, when i go back for the refill, about two sips in it hits me. "oh, that's why..." and then i set it down and go and feel kinda queasy for a couple hours. and this happens seemingly every year, without fail. you'd think i would have figured it out by now, but no.
and i'm off!
marko

Hooray!

For getting an extension on Kevin's paper!!!!
Up Next: An Extension on my sanity!
After that: The amazing story of how Mark Olofson became Marko... where did the "O" come from? My best guess: He stole it from chuck nrris or a zmbie or the entire state of Clorado. Also possible it came from a Vlcano.

In Class 2.0

If anyone told me six months ago that I would watch a Hi-C chugging contest during class one day I would have called that person a liar. I feel that this was a really rich experience in enhancing the power of my transparent facilitation as well as the pedagogical epistemology behind my lens. Bacon and Shinko Maki.

P.S. Brandon won because Jeff can't handle the fact that you cannot substitute kissing noises for the sound of an empty Hi-C container.