AND A HAPPY BOXING DAY!!

...or Feast of St. Stephen. whichever you prefer.

i have to teach a lesson tomorrow all about Holiday Traditions around the World. so i spent all last night and this morning (in fact i should still be doing it as i type) researching winter holiday traditions of different countries and religions. there are a lot more than i had previously thought! and i FINALLY know where Kwanzaa comes from!! ...but if i tell you the Panthers might come a knockin`... eep.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

...that is all...

oh yeah...

Happy Winter Solstice!!

... whatever the hell that means.

how is this for a new post-modern definition of irony? i, a young
and healthy Canadian boy, am planning to take my very first
Snowboarding trip next week in Japan. and (get this) i will be taught
to snowboard by (wait for it) A MEXICAN!!! *sigh* the world is a
strange and wonderful place... except for crappy Christmas Trance
re-mixes, which seem to exist in abundance here in JapanLand.
weird.

i blog?!

so it was brought to my attention recently that i have a blog. this is news to me! apparently sometime back in August i was drunk and bored created a blog. then i promptly fell asleep and forgot all about it through the fog of hangover. at least this is what i am piecing together from blurry fragments of computer log, memory, and empirical evidence (the last of which is how i know it happened in August).

so now, feeling like a rockstar who is faced with the results of a paternity test (Mr. Rossdale, i`m looking in your direction), i must now take responsibility for myself and nurture and care for and blah blah blah.... or delete the damn thing. but since you`re reading this that obviously hasn`t happened (unless you live in a Twighlight Zone episode). any guesses as to how long this`ll last? i don`t tend to spend more than 30 minutes in front of the puter on any given day.

so word to "Word." be what it may. place your bets....