i have now acquired all my hanukah presents. well, my sister's is still in transit, but i bought it, so. i just needed to share that. :D that's what i did today, plus i bought comics and tried and failed to write this week's entry for
therealljidol - i have to start over, but that's ok - and went to my sister's house to watch catching fire in preparation for theoretically getting to see mockingjay before it leaves boston. i'm not sure if i caught anything i didn't catch the first time i saw it, but it's still kind of hard to watch. and i really want to know how it ends.
today's december babble is my thoughts on today being the last numerically lined up date we'll get until the next century (12/13/14), for
beeker121. that's both really cool - because i love that kind of thing - and a little depressing, because it's such a neat significance. but i guess if it happened all the time, it wouldn't be worth mentioning when it did.
how do monks who took a vow of silence sing the hallelujah chorus? hint: with giant flash cards. it made me giggle at work.
all about that space, about that space, space travel - nasa interns write a parody of meghan trainor's all about that bass, and it is ADORABLE.
the controversial physics of curling - i didn't realize the physics were that controversial, but apparently they are! (look, it's curling season. you run the risk of getting curling links for the next few months.)