Wednesday is a full working day and I had to send an academic article in a hurry, so I didn’t do very much. The morning was spent on the article, which was about Ethiopian Christianity. I am quite the expert on Ethiopia having edited two monographs and countless articles on various aspects. Dashed out to get some lunch, a noodle soup which I brought back and added lots of vegetables to. I do like how easy Bangkok makes eating out. Then I wrote a web article, so close to the opposite end of the spectrum as far as popular appeal would go. Wednesday evenings I have a meeting to attend at which my role is really only to listen, so I made dinner as I listened, pausing occasionally to take notes. By the time the meeting ended dinner was also ready and my working hours were done, so I had dinner reading my Gurnah book. I finished it later in the evening, and it was very good indeed, and with an interesting structure.
Then returned to the academic article, did some final edits and sent it off. Finished my book whilst eating a half plate of mango sticky rice (the other half was yesterday), and to bed.
I have finally got to grips with the logos and imagery of the main political parties so I can now identify them on the street. Every now and then one comes across something unexpected, like the banner which had, in English, sex worker/ sex creator/ sex toy, and in retrospect must be related to a bill currently passing through its various processes, or another with a black and white image of a tormented Frankenstein monster in a rain of paperwork, but these are almost invariably smaller parties. By and large the posters have a demure image of the candidate, maybe an image of another better known party member, a small party logo, a line of Thai text and their number on the ballot paper. And that is it.