It is 11:21 pm on a Saturday.� You know what I hear?� Nothing.� For the first time since..when?..sometime in July?, my apartment is quiet and peaceful. The bars are closed.

The optimist in me wants to think this means that the bars closed for the summer since all of the students are gone. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the bars are closed in honor of some Buddhist holiday I don't know about. Now that I think of it, Mod mentioned something about Monday being a holiday…� But surely someone would have told me if we were having a 3 day holiday, right?� Unless it's some kind of religious observance that really only affects bars. Which is possible. When I was in Kanchunaburi for the start of Buddhist Lent all the bars were closed and everything else was open.� hmm..

Anyway, keep your fingers crossed.� It would be great to be able to go to bed at a decent hour during my last week and a half here!