O Tannenbaum

I wasn't planning on blogging today (mainly because of a splitting headache) but I guess I'd better write at least a little bit. Christmas was good, though I've found that in the last few years my interest in getting presents has almost completely evaporated. Not that I'm not pleased when I do get them, of course, but I wouldn't be troubled in the least if I didn't get a single present. Spent most of the latter evening getting caught up on e-mails (and I'm still not quite there). One of my presents today was a book, Richard Paul Evans's The Christmas Box Miracle. I loved it! It's his story of how he came to write The Christmas Box and everything that happened afterwards. (Side note: I discovered today that the presents I like most are books. Good thing I'm going to become a librarian, huh. :)) Well, this coming week I'll be working 20-30 hours a week, writing Beyond, and getting ready for the new semester. But first I have to get some sleep so I can get rid of this dratted cold. Eating lots of peanut M&Ms today probably didn't help much... (Second side note: I'm not a big candy fan, but M&Ms, particularly peanut and/or peanut butter, are almost irresistible. Ditto for Snickers.) Okay, it's bedtime, buckeroo. Oh, one last thing: I finally switched to OS X's Mail app today, after using Mutt (a command-line client) for I don't know how many years. Why? Unicode, ease of use, searching, easy access to old folders, and a few other reasons. I'm happy and it's working great for me so far. I think the new Mail in Tiger has a few cool new features I'd like even more, but I haven't saved up enough money yet to upgrade. Maybe next month...