I am, finally, officially, on my Christmas Break. To celebrate Wakana and I ran over to Agate to have dinner at Lemon Grass, our favorite Thai restaurant. We had fried spring rolls, beef penang, and Thai fried chicken. Yummy.

I feel as if I have been released from some form of durance vile. Working with the kids I teach is very emotionally difficult. These kids have, as I've come to see, no imagination. They cannot understand the difference between fact and fiction. If you tell them a joke they absorb your words then express concern for the characters in the joke.

I have spent the last two school days showing A Christmas Carol (the George C. Scott version) to my students. They were fascinated and concerned for the people in the story. One student could not wrap his head around the idea of the Ghost of Christmas Present and how that entity only has a life span of 1 day, Christmas Day. He kept asking about it trying to see how something could have such a short life span.

But now it is Christmas for real. I do not have to get up early tomorrow. I can turn off all my alarms, I can stay up late, and I can do stuff during the day, I can take a nap during the day, and generally relax. It's over on January 5 but I will make the best of it till then.

Merry Christmas to all.