The long Fall quarter is finally over, though it hardly seems possible, and we’ve entered the holiday break before the winter quarter, which is also shaping up to be quite busy. So it’s the time for festivities. We went to the Staff Assembly Winter Warmer event, which was fun, with delicious hot chocolate and cookie decorating, as well as a performance by the all-female a cappella singing group ‘The Spokes‘. They were really good, and so I sketched them performing (and had them all sign the sketch after). I also did a little sketching at our annual department Holiday Party (below) at the Student Community Center. We didn’t have any signing there (we’ve done karaoke in some previous parties, to varying success) but we did have some fun games like Bingo and Secret Santa. And a very nice hot chocolate bar. Tis the season for hot chocolate! We also had ornament decorating, which I love, except a red acrylic paint pen exploded all over my hand. It looked like I was covered in blood, and took some scrubbing to get off.