Karma Sue is back...

...a little early from Prague, due to an ultimate frisbee injury and upcoming knee surgery. We went to her homecoming/Bennion family Christmas party yesterday out at the new church in Vernon. I tried to get more photos, but I hate using a flash, and a lot of the ones I got are blurry. People watch the white elephant event,

Johnathan contemplates his options while eating a chocolate chip cookie,

and John models his Christmas vest with attractive action figure accessory. And Chris eats one of "about twelve" rice krispie treats.

And here is Karma Sue as her true self:

Buffy Anxiety

We're almost through with Season 3, and I just read this:

...even though I loved Buffy, after she started sleeping with every vampire in sight and morphed into Buffy the Vampire Layer, it became harder to watch.

Tell me it ain't so! I realize that vampirism is on some level a stand-in for sex, but it isn't only about sex, and it's a lot more fun when the sexual tension etc. is sublimated and disguised. Like flying dreams are "really" sex dreams--except they're not--if you're going to have a sex dream, just have a sex dream, but let the flying dreams be about flying. If you're going to have vampires, let it be about vampires, not porn of whatever degree of disgustingness. Or let it be vampire disgustingness at least.

I [Heart] Austen

OK, so now you know I've been surfing the net all afternoon instead of working on case notes and novel revisions. But I really like this. Check it out, English majors. It's an early valentine.

I [Heart] Krugman

Here's the link if it's too hard to see. And here's the link to the Shrill One's blog, FYI. We're all economists now!

Chris Sings

Chris sang with his school choir at the mall the other day (he gave me about 30 minutes warning that he was supposed to be there). The sound quality in the clip is about what it was at the mall. I hope we get to hear him in a more favorable venue--he has a beautiful and versatile voice, as well as being a great musical mimic.

For My John

..because he's such a hippie.

News in Brief

Chris is off to California for a cross country competition, and won't be back until Sunday night. It's too bad that John and I are so busy we will hardly have time to see each other while he's gone. We look forward to Tena's party on the 19th, and we're trying to figure out which day will work for John's family's party. When should we have Mom's birthday party?

It's always amazing how much work partying requires (not that I'd trade it for not partying). There are our three writing groups, various student groups, my office partners, and the ward party to consider, to say nothing of friends we want to see.

Is everybody ready for Christmas (ha)?

I've been blogging instead of doing my case notes. So much more fun to be a fake psychologist than a real one. I bought Dreamweaver so I could manage my website by myself. I've watched the "user friendly" training video several times, and I still have no idea what they're talking about. Hopefully I can hire Rob to show me what to do.

Do you think having a blog/blogs is a good enough reason not to send cards with the usual Christmas newsletter? I'm such a show-off though, I actually like sending the newsletter. We want to keep the PO in business, afterall, during this economic downturn.