i’m listening to skinny puppy right now - the singles collection that i picked up at generation last week. or the week before? something like that. i can’t think of a better way to start a monday than with loud, stompy industrial. well, ok. let me qualify that. loud, stompy industrial and a disturbing quantity of coffee. i went to starbucks this morning, and they’ve gone all festive already - the holiday marketing season is in full swing, apparently. their cups are all red and snowflakey and they’re pushing their christmas blend as though it were crack. maybe it is crack. hmmmmm.

in spite of my best efforts to ignore it, christmas has shoved its way into my awareness. probably because i’m going to visit my dad for thanksgiving this week, and thanksgiving is closely linked in my mind to christmas. now, i have no problem with christmas in and of itself. i’m not a christian, but christmas is about as pagan a holiday as you can get so that’s not even really an issue. in high school i made a point of not letting anyone give me christmas presents unless they called them solstice presents, but that seems a bit much now. after all, i’m not a practicing pagan, either. there aren’t really any agnostic holidays, heh. but so to return to my point [if i had one]: christmas is a perfectly good holiday as far as holidays go, but it’s also quite possibly the most commerically whored one. i’d like it more if it weren’t shoved down my throat starting the week before halloween. at least it’s another excuse to watch the nightmare before christmas, though, and i just can’t see that being bad.

so i went to sphere on friday, and i really enjoyed myself. the only thing was that it was such a fucking bitch to get there, at least from brooklyn. it would have been less of a herculean trek if we’d been going from manhattan, but i had to go home to get dressed first. it ended up taking about three hours, all told, and given that we only stayed for about three hours once we were there, it all just seems a bit excessive. that said, i did have fun. jim and i were a couple of sexy geek bitches [me in my chicks dig unix, he in his i heart linux one], and i got to meet gundam, who has incredibly cool hair.

after friday night’s excursion, jim and i didn’t even get up till about three on saturday afternoon, and ended up spending the day lazing around the house. which was really nice, actually. we skipped batcave and stayed home working on our various respective projects. and then yesterday i managed to get myself out of the house and went to bed bath & beyond, land of the overpriced housewares. spencer spent obscene amounts of money on sheets for his new bed, and i snagged some more penguin mints and the fleur d’orange candles they have that i adore.

last night was spent lounging around in my pj’s, talking to tycho and playing tekken 3 on jim’s playstation. too much fun. i’d rather still be home doing more of the same, admittedly, but i’m actually in a fairly good mood, for a monday morning at least.