Holiday

Today was the first day of our winter holiday. We woke up before dawn to catch and overcrowded bus to Nong Khai, the Thai border town across the Mekong River from Laos. Thirteen hours on the stuffy, slow-moving vehicle gave me a numb ass but also plenty of time to defragment my mental harddrive, allowing backed up thoughts to process and finally settle in my brains's filing cabinets. After four months of screaming students, vegetating on a bus all day ain't half bad, even if I do have to share my seat with a flatulating weirdo who stares at me for half the journey.