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I went with friends to watch "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies" today.

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So that was it! In all likelihood the last of the Middle-Earth movies. I'm not too broken up about it. It was nice while it lasted, but the LotR movies were imo clearly better.

The plan is that I'm leaving with my parents tomorrow morning to visit relatives and for my brother to join us later. Unfortunately he got sick today, so I might stay with him for a day or two longer.
I'm taking my laptop, but I doubt there'll be wifi. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe that'll make me write. And maybe I'll get around to doing another Yuletide rec post before reveals.

In other news, the Penguins have accumulated even more injuries, and that Sidney Crosby is in a scoring slump just makes the problem more obvious. Ugh. Olli is not out for the season, but now Hornqvist is out for a while and we already had a bad top 6 problem. Fortunately they have enough points so far that they don't need to worry about reaching the playoffs anytime soon.

Merry Christmas everyone, and/or Happy Holidays! I hope you're having a good time.

I'm still exhausted from my week of much too little sleep, but naps are wonderful things and it's getting better. Also coffee.

Yesterday I finished making and wrapping Christmas presents an hour before dinner - no pressure - and then instead of taking a nap I listened to another episode of Cabin Pressure. How is it this funny? I don't think I can listen to it on the bus, the other people would be annoyed.

Quotes from Little Brother during Christmas lunch:
"I always thought seals look like a combination of teddy bears and clubs."
"Austria looks like a club. But it's not in 3D. So it's more like a projection of a club on a spherical body." Me: "But not a smooth sphere. It was nibbled on by space mice." And then we both started humming one of our favorite Christmas songs that starts with "Es kommt ein Schiff geladen/A loaded ship is arriving."
LB currently has math disease: everything he sees reminds him of math. It's funny for me ;)

We sang about twenty songs, some of them in four voices, that's my favorite part of Christmas.

I got "Freebird" from layla! I read through it immediately on Christmas Eve and I loved it.( A bit more, no spoilers )

And today I finally saw "The Hobbit"! It's fantastic. ( General impressions, very minor spoilers )

Signal boost: kitakatzz lost her vids and is asking people to re-upload them for her if they have them here. She is the creator of such wonderful vids as "Welcome to the Black Parade", "Static", and "Fix You", and I hope she gets all of them back so I can watch the far too many I haven't seen yet.

Tomorrow I'll attempt to clean my room, phone everyone I didn't reach yet to wish Merry Christmas, do some homework, watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special, watch a DVD I got (The Great Debaters), visit friends for lunch, and read some Yuletide fics. I still want to do some sga_santa recs, but didn't have the time yet, and there's some OTW stuff to be done. Still a lot to do, but now I can sleep again, it feels great. And on Thursday I leave for the World Universities Debating Championship in Berlin! I think it'll be a lot of fun.