Don't finish up in work until the 21st, have an ever growing pile of stuff on my desk to get finished before then and lovely assignments due mid January mean that I'm going to be bringing laptop and half a ton of books with me when I go to visit the folks.
'Aunty Squiggle, read me story'
'ok, once upon a time there was a guy called Plato, and this is what he had to say on the subject of Drama... or I could read you this story by Hegel on Aesthetics'
'What's astetics?'
'not far removed from anesthetics and since I'm supposed to be getting you to go to sleep that should be just grand'
'Aunty Squiggle, read me story'
'ok, once upon a time there was a guy called Plato, and this is what he had to say on the subject of Drama... or I could read you this story by Hegel on Aesthetics'
'What's astetics?'
'not far removed from anesthetics and since I'm supposed to be getting you to go to sleep that should be just grand'