Happy Boxing Day!

As we are a half English household, we celebrate boxing day. Since we spent most of Christmas playing the wii, we are very sore...and are celebrating by resting....

But tomorrow we are off to San Louis Obsipo for a few days...then back home for New Year's Eve with some of our pals and probably some more wii!

Happy Holidays from the Gerbil-Bear-Cat Family

Wishing you a Happy Christmas (if you celebrate it) and New Year!

Tiger finally agreed to let me take some holiday snap shots of her...she is kind of a pain like that.

I won't regale you with our adventures, because you can skim through them here.

We are looking forward to an exciting New Year with the Gerbil part of the family moving to LA, getting a new Cat family member and a big trip to New Zealand.

Huggles to all of you out there!

Who was afraid of Santa

Of course it was me. In general I was scared of all men with facial hair. Gerbil family legend states that it was because of me Papa Gerbil had to shave his cool 70's facial hair. Sorry!

But Back to the holiday theme....there is an entire photo gallery of kids being freaked out by santa....click here. But there is also someone who actually studies this topic...click here.

Honestly, if I was in charge of a kid, I would be glad if they were freaked out by Santa. Who wants to be held by some weirdo in a red suit, usually with a fake beard and probably smells...

Luckily, Tiger is not into sitting still so, she is spared a trip to animal santa....but she did find her christmas presents...this is the problem of buying catnip toys for your cat....she was trying to wrestle them free of a petco bag...she is a very special kitty. But you are in luck, in the next day or so her holiday photos will be posted right here.....

So the moral of this tale...santas are creepy and don't make your kid sit with them....

TA DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I managed to get myself an assistant professor position. In July I will be starting at Cal-State Northridge. This will be my first experience in a school of this size, but I am sure I'll be able to figure it out....

It will mean that Sir GB and I will be living in different places for awhile, but we'll figure it out. It is only an hour flight and about $100, which these days is way cheaper than driving...

But the other good news, is that means we get to add to the Gerbil-Bear-Cat family. Tiger will be getting a sibling, a little brother or sister kitty to keep me company in SoCal. Soon, I will be soliciting entries in the cat naming bonanza....

Job update

Unless something changes in the next 30 hours, I'll be moving to LA this summer. Not such a bad thing. I liked the people in the department, I can definitely get tenure there...and I need a change of pace from around here.

So I'll confirm on the blog tomorrow....but tonight I am having dinner with the delightful and ever charming, Dana D, who is out here interviewing at Santa Cruz...

But until confirmation...here are some holiday whales...b/c we all need to see whales in santa hats

Who has a wii

I have a wii!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But Sir GB says I have to wrap it for christmas...I think he doesn't want to be distracted by it....

We are busy getting ready for the holidays! I am very excited for the break!

How I think that Sir GB thinks I drive

Not only is this a good song, but it pretty much depicts Sir GB's description of my driving