Absent from the Faculty Christmas Party

Friday afternoon and I am blogging instead of going to the faculty Christmas party. I skipped last year, also. The organizers like to have it in a "nice" place in San Pedro which entails a 30 minute to eternity traffic battle into the city and an hour to eternity traffic battle out again. There was a little pressure to attend - which is nice that people want you there and aren't ambivalent to your not going. In the end if you don't want to go to a party, you shouldn't go just to please other people though - unless the other person is your spouse.