Mon, Dec 25, 2000 10:49AM -0800

This is probably among the lamest of Christmas Days I've ever had, because, of all things, I am going to Las Vegas, which is apparently my parents' most favorite place in the world, the place I was conceived, and I don't know why they have to take their children on their Silver Wedding Anniversary. Now, with regards to Christmas season as a whole, it wasn't bad. We did the family stuff yesterday. The two really bad Christmases I've had, I refer to as The N64 rental Christmas and The Med School Secondary App Rejection Fest Christmas (which really didn't turn out too bad)

Well, my dad is anxious to get on the road, as he is a consummate gambler. (One of his mottos, stolen from Chick Hearn, the announcer of the Los Angeles Lakers, is "Better lucky than good.") I quote my mother: "Kumakati ang puwet niya." (His ass is itching [to go]) So this'll have to be a quickie after all, without links, and without talking about midnight mass and people who complain relentlessly to people who really can't do anything about it, and other minutiae that seem very important at 1 am, but are more likely a product of being slowly asphyxiated by incense. I'll probably fix this entry up when I come back.