Emerging from my hole

Last exams handed out, last candidate has left campus. We hosted three candidates for a position the past two weeks, and I underestimated the stress of just being the person in charge of the whole thing. For a host of reasons I can't/won't be more specific, so you'll just have to trust me on that.

The Dear One's Aunt arrives tomorrow, and her annual December visit has become mythic in the eyes of our children. "Auntie brings Christmas" as they say, and we'll be getting the tree and generally breaking out all the decorations. I relish all her visits, but the Christmas one most of all. Sunday night is Lessons and Carols, one of my favorite nights of the whole year.