it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

Actually, it's not, because it rarely snows down at sea level here in Squamish. But it has been beautiful lately - we've had a string of frigid, windy, blue-sky days. Global Perspectives is fulfilling it's promise to illuminate all the dark and horrible corners of the world from child labor to pesticide poisoning. Furthermore, I firmly believe that it is impossible (for me) to get better than 86% in participation. I'm learning many important things, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't unbelievably stoked for December 17th.

However, it's not all doom and gloom. We've all got Secret Santas (I baked some bread for mine this weekend... although the truth is that I'm horrible at baking so I have no idea if it actually was baked or if it's just dough with a baked shell... yikes), Questival (Quest christmas festival?) is coming up, and there's only a week and a half until the glorious freedom of winter vacation. Not to mention, I'm getting pretty pumped for Borneo. I'll try to squeeze in one last post between frantic reading of scientific papers before I return to my homeland. Happy December!