Bah, humbird
Silver bells, ring-a-ling, here them ring, soon it will be Christmas Day.
... for reals? Despite the efforts of mass commercialism everywhere, I've failed to notice. While most folks have departed for the break, I have made a seamless transition to school and work to fieldwork and work. Mustcollectdatamustcollectdata... I just hope I'm doing an okay job of it. It's really hard to keep experimental conditions similar when the subjects are free-living and free-minded. Tis a good thing I like chasing them around, because that's how I'm spending my Christmas.

I might as well. I can't be home, I can't visit elsewhere, the house here is pretty empty. My mum mailed me a few ornaments (in a box with real peanuts for packing material my mum is so awesome), but I have no tree to put them on. At least in Australia we had that saggy Casuarina tree bedecked with flagging tape and hibiscus flowers. I'm sure I could do something here, but it just seems pointless to wrangle up that level of motivation.

I hear it raining again. So far the weather has been fairly cooperative in the mornings, which is all I care about. Except yesterday, which shifted continuously to rain, hail, sun, rain, sun, sun and hail, etc. Biking in hail is kinda painful.
I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas.