The worst thing about christmas

The worst thing about christmas is not: the packed shopping centres or supermarkets (with people stocking up as if for WWIII, despite the fact the supermarket will indeed open again two days later...); it's not the fact that if you buy a real christmas tree it's guaranteed to die before christmas day; it's not even that we feel the need to roast various types of animals in 40 degree Australian heat (I'll be guilty of that one too!).

The worst thing about christmas is that suddenly you start to see otherwise sane-looking humans suddenly dressing in oversized t-shirts with christmas designs on them, with tinsel in their hair, or blinking christmas earrings. The worst thing about christmas is christmas clothes. I find them incomprehensible. We don't break out the easter egg shirts for Easter, and I've yet to see any Passover earrings. It's obvious that a lot of these people have had their shirts a while and wear them every christmas - which indicates foresight and the wish to wear this hideous clothing again and again!

Maybe I just don't enter into the whole christmas spirit enough. I can accept christmas spirit - but only so far. Christmas clothing is taking it too far.

Slackness

My god, I've been so incredibly slack not posting in almost a month! Some things I have concluded during this month: 1. Library system changeovers are not as fun as your superiors would have you believe, and 2. The Public Record Office is a totally awesome place and I want to work there. It rocks. In a kind of archive-old stuff sense.

In other good news "Liberry" school is over for the summer and I have one semester to go. I am actually doing some RRResearch subjects next semester which should make a refreshing change. I am hoping the worst is behind me, although I do have a knowledge management class to do next semester which has been taught incredibly badly the last couple years. Ehh....

I have also got into the christmas spirit with a mini christmas tree with suitably tacky decorations and a big gold star on top. My plan to spray the windows with fake snow was vetoed...and of course we'll be doing the christmas-day roast - probably in about 40 degree heat!

A proper post will follow at some point...