Holiday moments

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The timing this year feels quite odd to me - it feels like it's been years since I've had this much time between classes ending and going off to my family for a few days for Christmas. I've made good use of it this year, though - wrapped up the last of my shopping in the last two days, along with a number of other tasks in New London.

(Mrs Malfoy - thank you again for making the time in what I know is an incredibly busy week for you. As always, please let me know if there's any additional information that would be helpful to you.)

I've distributed several of the presents for folks here, and wrapped most of the ones that are coming back for the family celebrations. (Pomona - I haven't managed to catch you anywhere today, it seems! If I don't find you tonight, I'll leave it by your door. It doesn't need tending.)

And for today and tomorrow, I've got evening plans with a telescope, no need to reset it for classes, and a number of things I'm looking forward to checking out. (One of my finds in New London was an older title comparing the varying ways to measure and predict various astronomical events. While I'm quite familiar with most of the methods, there are a couple of variations discussed (some Mesopotamian, some Greek) that I've not seen put that way before, and I'm looking forward to testing them out.