every year around this time of the season one of my familiar friends comes around. that's right, the pimple on my nose, right in time for the holidays baby! sometimes it'll be on the tip dead-on, this year it missed the mark by a couple of centimeters and found its home swelled up halfway up my left nostril. ssssssssexxxehhhhhhh. i'm not complaining though, it's a hell of a lot better than the grotesquely dramatic amount of acne i had throughout middle school. man oh man. i used to pop pimples just by furling my eyebrows (ok, sorry that was a little much). for some reason i stopped getting acne once i converted out of my high-school-two-whoppers-and-an-order-of-onion-rings-per-day diet. hmmmmmmm...probably a coincidence.

so my stuff is packed up, i'm debating if i want to go back to see my family tonight or tomorrow. once i'm there, it's no turning back for about a week. i love them all so much, but i feel like it's been foreverrrrrrr since i've had a chance to chill at home in oakland, yadidai? another incentive for leaving early is that my loft here has NO central heating (not a very homey mix with the cement floors and thin walls). my roommate and i have been surviving off this propane flame-thrower-type heater, but alas, tis out of fuel. it'll be good to be able to get some sleep without having to wear double-layer hoodies and cocooned in my blanket with a breathing crack.

lastly, i can finally go back and swap my sister's the office dvd's for my arrested development! oh george-michael, how i miss you.