december

-- is upon us, which means that it's time for:

X'mas wish list, 2004

1. DVDs:
- Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, 40th anniversary special edition
- Schindler's List, widescreen edition (keeping copy)
- the Arrested Development Season 1 Box Set (lots of extras)

2. Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, one of the best books on defense out nowadays, IMHO.

3. A heart rate monitor, for jogging.

4. This Swatch Irony, which I think exists in green, although I cannot find one on the webpage

5. A small bedside lamp that can clip onto my bed (couple inches of wood). I don't have a bedside table so the clipping bit is imperative.

6. A one-year renewal of my Bridge World subscription

7. Low-maintenance fish, with fishbowl, that will swim around and give me inspiration to write.

8. A dock for my Ipod mini - a completely superfluous accessory, I admit, but what is Christmas for?

9. (family only!) A pair of sneakers. It is embarrassing, but I don't have any.

10. To take each moment, and live each moment, in peace eternally

(P.S. I encourage other people to put up similar lists so that I don't feel like a greedy bastard. Thank you.)