It embarrasses me to admit it, but this 16 degree (~60 Fahr) weather late at night actually feels a bit chilly to me. I hate to think of how cold I’ll get in real cold weather.
I went hiking yesterday behind the school with one of the tutors and a friend. It was refreshingly wooded. I could see the evidence of the big forest fire a while back, too. I’ll be back up there.
This album is helping me recover from the pain of Jusco’s Christmas music at TMTP yesterday. I’m glad I didn’t pass by the Hello Kitty Christmas Castle again. I guess it’s a lot less sacrilegious than the one in the shrine in Ayutthaya.
I’ve tweaked the blog to add a strip of recently-uploaded photos from my gallery to the right sidebar of this blog, so check that out if you aren’t reading past the latest entry. Do try to ignore the umbrella picture until I upload some better ones. I also added a feature which should be able to notify you of responses to your comments—a great reason to start leaving comments if I ever typed one.
I’m in a bit of a weird place mentally with the impending departure of the semester-long exchange students. I’ve been hanging out more with the tutors, but there’s always the shop talk barrier there (now I finally know what it’s like to be on the outside of the RA groupie fence). Hanging out of any sort is complicated by the onslaught of last-second papers and exams. I suppose I’ll get past it one way or another. Maybe in Laos.
I’ve seen some people for the last time, most likely. A lot of people are leaving for a beach trip on the 5th and returning on the 11th—I’m leaving for my December trip on the 12th and I might be mainlanding between the 6th and a bit before my lone formal exam on the 11th. This time I’m really going to make it across the border. For real. I’ll forgive your skepticism if you’ve been following this blog.
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