So, in case you haven't noticed, it's christmas time. You know every shopowners opportunity to sell things that they haven't been able to during the year, and at an inflated price too. Don't get me wrong I don't mind the idea of christmas, people being nice to one another, giving stuff and an exaggerated consumtion of food. Things that I do mind though is the stress, the pressure and everything around it that's designed just to make us spend our money.

I was at a christmas fair this weekend, after 10 minutes I was getting tired of christmas already, after half an hour I was on the virge of collapsing into a catatonic state on the ground, right between the stand with handmade garden gnomes and the booth with christmas-reindeer-sausage. If someone would have walked up to me and said "merry christmas" with a smile, I swear I would have punched him in the face... repeatedly

What christmas needs is a year without hysteria, without ultra-mega-super-duper-christmas sales and no bright shiny neon-santas in every corner. No, I don't see that happening either.

At the moment we're now three people living in our apartment. A friend of my roomies is living with us. Not an ideal situation spacewise, but we manage. This has lead to a slightly neater apartment since our new guest has kinda another level of tolerance for disorder than me and my roomie.

Tomorrow is the award ceremony for the noble prize winners. Oddly enough, I was neither given a nobel prize or even invited to the party. Must have been some kind of mistake, I will have to get in touch with the nobelcommittee so this won't be repeated.

I'm watching David Letterman with one eye as I'm writing this. And something struck me. Why do all talkshow hosts need an announcer that shouts out the hosts name in a loud and annoying voice, you know "Aaaaaaanddddd live from the Ed Sullivan theatre, it's the Deeeyaaaavid Letterman show". Is it just to remind himself what his name is? Is it for the tv-audience ? Are we that illiterate that we can't read the large letters on the TV-screen, explaining to us just what the guy with the annoying voice is shouting ? Or maybe it's the other way around, it's really some kind of subtitle to what the announcer is shouting. Yeah well in my opinion... the world needs announcers about as much as it needs another online-poker site.

Random quote that made my day
"Cleaning is for those who are just too lazy to search"

Until next update,
Good night cyberspace, wherever you are