Holidays!
I can’t beleive that I’m at the Christmas break of my first year of medical school! While we are at the half-way point of our current unit so I can’t completely forget everything that we’ve done leading up to the break, it’s still great to have some time off.
We accomplished our goal of staying “mall-free” with our Christmas shopping this year. Online ordering is fantastic! I should have posted more details about good sites we found along the way, but I was worried that the people for which we were buying the gifts would get too much insight into their gifts. That being said, anything we wanted to buy for someone, we could find online – ie. we didn’t have to change what we were getting people based solely on internet availability.
We’ve got the Barenaked Ladies concert tonight which should be a lot of fun. Based on the setlists of some of their recent shows, it looks like it will be a good mix of Christmas songs and some old favorites. I missed out on their Christmas tour last year, so I’m really looking forward to it. The other thing that they have been doing is making all of their concerts available for download a few days after the concert. It’s cheaper than buying a CD and I applaud them for coming up with more great ways to get their music out to people – especially since the music industry these days seem to waste more time complaining about piracy than actually promoting the music.
Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season! Be safe and I’ll write more soon!