Christmas status update

[luzula]

1) I will probably not get around to digging seriously into Yuletide until after the New Year, because I am prioritizing getting through my bryophyte and lichen backlog before the year is over. I will triumph over my rival! I also have to graaaaade exams, which is less fun.

2) I spent Christmas with only my parents since my sister has started to do the every-other-year thing with the in-laws. But she and her family are coming here for New Year. Anyway, good food was had; there was a political argument in the morning but then we all pulled together to get along. Will spend more than a week at my their place, so here's hoping we can keep it up. My dad was kind enough to come get me in the car so I could bring my microscope along, which is pretty much the prerequisite for 1).

3) Eeeee, Star Wars soon! I am going with my sister, when she gets here.

I hope you are all doing well! ♥

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I'm glad your family is behaving, and wish I could give you an inflatable microscope for just these occasions.

(Where did you sleep outside on the Solstice?)

[luzula]

We have continued to get along really well, except for a brief Garrett Hardin vs Elinor Ostrom argument with my dad about the management of commons. Which is fine, it was not a quarrel, just a...heated exchange of opinions.

Oh, I forgot to write that up! I didn't get anyone to come with me this time, and I didn't have the energy to make a big outing of it. So I just went down to the creek close to where I live and went off-trail enough that noone would see me. And then I put my hammock up between two trees. It was a couple of degrees above zero so I didn't take my winter sleeping bag, though I kind of wish I had. The high point was hearing a tawny owl call before I feel asleep.

And how are you doing?