final stretch

last day of school. essay due in 4 hours and then (hopefully a bit before...) i am going to write christmas cards and distribute, take back 1, maybe 2, sets of overdue library books, and put some pictures on here!

[about bloody time? i know... what can i say? essays have priority... it does happen. occasionally]

had american studies dept christmas break up last night - everyone piled into frieda's house with lots of food and met john and eric's wives, shenan's husband, talked about england and scotland with shanan and husband who are headed there for 10 days over break, and about nz and africa with eric's wife. and i'm bearing gifts for them, back to nz. their requests: nz wine, coffee sugar... strange americans.

back to work. will finish essay and then be useful again.