Of Last Days and Christmas Dinners

Today is the first day of the last week of term. Then I get one whole week off! Pretty quiet at work as there are no students and no one is really doing much. Just winding down and pottering about. Suits Andy and I just fine. Not much admin going on and any that come in we are putting in to a list to do once we come back. Can't really do much with myBU at the moment as it's going down tomorrow while they move it to a new server. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And head. It's never going to come back up without a hitch (or three) somewhere.

It was also the SM staff Christmas dinner today. The admin staff served and cooked for the rest of us. If I never see some of them in a french maid outfit again I'll die a happy man. Dear God it wasn't pretty. Still, free food and free wine, can't complain! Andy, Lou and I are going to go for a Christmas drink later in the week as well, which should be good!

During the dinner Andy and I came up with an alternative to the story of Christ's birth. An interesting, and honestly, a plausable one. Not actually sure where Jesus came into it, but the three kings where three drunks coming out of the pub. They followed a (neon) sign to the local kebaby where they met three devlivery boys (shepherds), the three gifts were scented towels (from KFC for example), aka. myrrh. Hot sauce, aka incense. And finally half a toasted burger bap, aka. gold. The stable was the local Travel Lodge.

Maybe Jesus, Mary and Joseph were staying at the Travel Lodge over night on they're way to visit family. Or maybe old Jo got offered a job in a new town and they were moving. Either way, the rest of the story works and seems slightly more likely. So there we are people, we are celebrating Christmas, not as Jesus's birth but in rememberence as one of the best nights out on the lash in ~2000 years! Rejoice and enjoy your own drunken stumble!