How are you doing? December is continuing to crawl on. Everything isn’t Christmas-themed now. I went to the fancy grocery store in town to get my nut-allergied American friend some fancy foreign Christmas treats — and only one Christmas-themed thing in the entire store did NOT say “May contain nuts”. It was so hard. I also had to check that the normal grocery store didn’t have something. It didn’t.
One of my friends had a birthday party at a pub a few days ago. It was pretty nice. Everyone was fairly tired though, so they all had a crisis about getting old and not wanting to party. I did not want to party anyway so I was very contented. Other than that I have mostly been studying. I have no more assignments due so now I can just focus on my undergrad dissertation (fancy word for long essay) for a month. Which will be nice. Mine’s about birds on Minoan coffins.
I am mostly just excited to get on home, you know. Everyone this time of year is rolllllling to a stop. You’re probably feeling it too. I am sleepy. It will be nice to sleep in my bed at home and see the cats. Also, I’ve learned to cook bagged rice. It’s pretty easy. They hide it in normal boxes of rice. Maybe try it if you’re feeling too tired to make anything normal (which, for me, is most of the time).
Christmas and Hanukkah kind of of suck. This year will be our tenth without each other. These holidays just make me sad for that reason. Especially Christmas, after what happened in 2016. Do you feel the same? All we can really do is keep trudging on. You are kidnapped, I am abandoned. It’s easier to think about the longer it goes on. Someday it will be better. But for now we must continue on. And ignore the saccharine Christmas music in the grocery store.
With love,
Alice