I managed to get myself with the scissors while wrapping the last of the gifts. I now have a 5 inch long scratch up the under side of my arm. Lovely.

I'd put a tag on this gift, but I'm too afraid I would somehow manage to stab myself with the pen.

Sigh... no one believes me when I say for me, wrapping gifts is hazardous occupation.

At least miome will appreciate the gift.

The last of the Christmas gifts I'm sending out are packed up.

OH THANK GOODNESS THIS WILL SOON BE DONE.

skylark97 I got your package today! Don't worry about having to get men's shoes. I have a hard enough time getting shoes my size. I didn't expect you to have any more luck, but you did manage to find shoes that fit. I love the socks and I love the notebooks. Thank you!

I also got a card from paisleyavenger. It's gorgeous.

Today was spent wrapping and shipping packages for my family. I am pooped. And still not done. o_O

Gah, I am so tired. Do not think that I'll get any writing done. I didn't sleep well last night and it all caught up to me at once.

silverthunder, I got your card. Thank you!
skuldchan, I got your card as well. Thank you!

I also got a card from my sister and her husband. Not only did it have a picture of them, but it also came with a great picture of me with their English bulldog Charles. I am amused.

I have two more Christmas cards to write and then I shall be DONE!

I have also already found out one of my grades for class. I got an A in statistics, meaning that my GPA for my graduate program continues to be a 4.0 (meaning I've got the highest marks you can get for all the classes I've taken in my program, for those who don't know the US's grading system). Since I do not expect to get anything but an A in Adv. Remote Sensing and all I have left is thesis, I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep that GPA.

I have no idea if my university will put summa cum laude on my degree. I know I graduated magna cum laude with my undergrad.

Also, I just had to share this paragraph from the Wikipedia article on honors:

A fourth distinction, egregia cum laude, "with outstanding praise", has occasionally appeared: it was created to recognize students who earned the same grade point average required for the summa honor, but did so while pursuing a more rigorous honors curriculum. One of Fordham University's student newspapers translated this as "with hysterical praise", and so the university dropped the distinction and awards such degrees with summa honors, and a notation In cursu honorum, "in the honors course". This latter notation is used by some other schools as well.

I don't know about you, but I would absolutely love to graduate with hysterical praise. XD

I got my Secret Santa package today (and obviously I fail at this whole "secret" thing because the package I sent out had my name all over it -_-). And since other people had already opened their package, I had to open mine. It was only fair.

OMG UNICORNS! I hadn't realized that Michael Green had put out an updated book with more drawings of unicorns, but he has, AND NOW I HAVE IT. I am thrilled. I didn't even know he was putting something new out which is strange because usually I keep an eye out for his stuff. I love his drawings. They are so pretty.

I also have a gorgeous unicorn print which I need to go buy a frame for so I can put it up on my wall. EEEEEEEEE!

Thank you!

PS - I told you I act like a five year old over unicorn. ^^

Today I discovered that you cannot ship certain packages from the automatic kiosk. Looks like I'll be trekking over to the campus post office tomorrow to get these things off. I did manage to get Christmas stamps so I have my first batch of cards ready to go out. Yeah me!

I probably should wrap at least one more present tonight, but I don't wanna.

I'm having to ship my Secret Santa present(s) in two packages because of the size.

Er...

In other news, I still suck at wrapping. This is why I love gift bags and gift boxes. That way no one can see how truly terrible my wrapping skills are. In good news, one of miome's gifts is wrapped and pretty up under our tree. Yeah!

I'm going to rest a while and then make myself finish my take-home exam like I intended to do yesterday.

Despite what some people might tell you, the reason we have a lobster on our Christmas tree is not because he was boiled for our sins.

First day I'm back in Indiana, and there's at least an inch of snow on the ground. miome assures me it was sunny and mild while I was gone. I'm not sure I believe her.

In other news, our Christmas tree is up though it isn't decorated except for the lobster on top of it. We will probably be putting all the ornaments on sometime today or possibly next weekend.

I have part of my secret Santa's gift bought. Now I just need to find some other things to get him/her.

Today I need to at the very least get some of the Christmas cards done so I can get them out tomorrow.

Life is good, if busy.

My mom's package arrived today, so our trees looks very nice with all the presents underneath it.

I got maderr and rykaine's package, and the cookies you two sent are being slowly eaten as we speak (the stuff in the cartons will not be touched until tomorrow because I'm counting the cartons as wrapping and therefore they go under the tree until Christmas).

I also got mechante_fille package today. Next time I play Monopoly, I am so totally going to be the Triceratops. XD

Finally, I am formatting the last two stories to go up on my website as we speak. Once that's done, I will do an update for Christmas. Then I will pick through and put some more stuff up on Fictionpress.

Everyone enjoy the holidays!

EDIT: Site updated. I was going to put the Ransom story up, but that's too much HTML at the moment. Witch King, Pied Piper, and Trick or Treat (snail_mail_porn Halloween story) are now up.

Cavalcade of Bad Nativities 2006
Calvacade of Bad Nativities 2007 (still going)
Awry in a Manger

Remember to laugh during the holidays.