oh man, did i enjoy me a five-day thanksgiving break. it seemed my whole team at work was out last wednesday, so i just checked email a few times from home and got my holiday started early. let me tell you, i did very, very little for five whole days and it was pretty much glorious.

thanksgiving with jessica’s family was nice and delicious — ham AND chicken, but no turkey? less traditional, but i will not argue with having two meats in a single meal. i still don’t speak spanish so there were less jokes on my part, but they are very nice to me and we got to just relax and have a mom-cooked meal. i approve. jess also made some great pumpkin muffins i could have eaten about a dozen more of.

the rest of the weekend was spent almost entirely on or around the couch in our apartment. i played a lot of mirror’s edge, which i really liked. we watched a lot of movies we’ve seen before on cable. some people came over friday night to play an MXC drinking game (highly recommended) and rock band, some of the same people came over saturday to grill burgers, watch the USC game and go to little bar for trivia. we won’t talk about what place we came in, let’s just say we were not in top form due to what seemed like a single missed slot every round.

the only other thing i technically did today, as in the aforementioned sunday midnight don hertzfeldt show. he played all the greats and concluded with the new one, i am so proud of you, which is equally as good as the last one. i would have probably rather gone to the 7 or 9:30 show, and been able to convince someone to come with me than go alone to the midnight show, but i still say it was worth it. he was even generous enough to stay for a full q&a afterwards even though it was after 1am.

i didn’t blog because it was an almost purely veg-out in front of the tv weekend (if five days can even still qualify as a weekend), which was exactly what i wanted. the time i did spend at the computer i spent writing a review of penny arcade adventures episode two, if you happen to be interested in such things. and i’m backed up about three article ideas so please do keep checking back there if you’re at all enjoying my in-depth nerdery.