Seasons Greetings

Tonight is the company holiday party. Unfortunately we are going to a lousy so-called Mexican restaurant. We had a vote on it and it ended up splitting by gender. All the men voted to go to the old standby with very good food, good service, and excellent desserts. The women mostly voted to go to the so-called Mexican restaurant. You know why? So they could drink margaritas. One of the strange ironies of working at this school is that almost all the male teachers are teetotalers, or if not, rarely drink at all. Most of the female teachers are lushes. They don't believe it is a party if you don't get soused! Rather odd if you ask me.

But enough of that. The term ends next Saturday, and then our Christmas-New Year break begins. It is a bit shorter this year, only two weeks, which means that if I am going to do any traveling I need to get right on it after classes end. I am still planning to go to Nakhon Sawan to visit Bueng Boraphet, the largest freshwater swamp in Thailand. Should get some good birding in. I might also do a motorbike ride up north, although it gets very cold up in the mountains this time of year. We will see.