I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord

The work Christmas function. The proper one (the gig last night could have stood in, there were so many library workers there). We'll see if I fare better at this event, but the heavy Karaeoke element has just about got me broken out in hives. Its BYO so maybe some messiness will occur? How I long for some entertainment, and how tragic it is I seek it among work colleagues.

Hmmmm

I was sure that there would be some major Christmas events going on in Dunedin, like a Christmas in the Park. It seems I was wrong. Yesterday the civic Christmas tree was ceremonially lit up, and the flying anuses have reappeared along George and Princes streets, but there is no mention of a carols in the park event. Checking out the Coca Cola Christmas in the Park site I see mentions of Auckland and Christchurch extravaganzas. Other centres miss out, such a shame. Perhaps as a nation we have to finally admit to ourselves that we just don't have enough celebrities to sustain the heady festive bunfight. It was ridiculous, a community could guage their relative importance by who was sent down to MC the event. Auckland got Shortland Street actors, Wellington politicians or something, Dunedin got Nick Eynon, several years after his fifteen minutes. Who is he? I hear you cry my little cabbages. Well, I don't know either and I don't care. Both he and the good folk of Dunedin can heave a sigh of relief because he is not coming here.

We do get a Christmas in the Pa though, but I may not be in town, I might be experiencing the many splendours of Alexandra.

The next door neighbours are screaming. See, they are getting frazzled already too.