ILX Secret Santa.

it would have been hilarious if id gotten ai lien. i would have had to send it to my own house.

i sent mine yesterday.

kate, you totally got mail!

Dude! SECRET Santa. I don't get how that's so hard. I'm not annoyed, you understand, I just think it's funny.

In any case, whoever gets mine, it won't be much of a mystery, what with the Irish post code and stamps and everything.

from wikipedia:
"There is usually a gift-giving occasion, where all the presents are placed on a table, marked with the name of the receiver but not the giver. Sometimes the gift-giver will personally give the recipient the present, thereby revealing their identity. Some groups may choose to donate the money they saved on presents to charity."

I've only done work SS's and they were only secret up to the time of exchange.

For some really phenomenal accounts of a nightmarish workplace SS exchange, see Sarah's posts on the Chicago thread. Highlight: working balking at a $35 max, countering that it should be $35 MINIMUM.

i beg to differ!

also kenan is all like bah humpbug up thread and look at us all proving him wrong.

I initially read this as "...has been in PRISON."

Me! That's how we do it here.

i hope the the almanac spawns several worthwhile ILE threads in the coming twelve months.

i think i've participated in this 3 times and never actually gotten anything. is abbott organising this again? i would be happy to do it, instead being part of it, but i would suggest that we add the option of a preference for a recipient in your own country, and that each "application" is accompanied by a list of 3-5 things that you like.

there are like five oirish ilxors and four of them are dryballs imo

but i will sign up for this for the first time this year regardless

also, an option to only receive and not give, and an option to give an extra gift, that way no one misses out.

I was thinking about this today and was going to offer to run it if no one else was.

I've never done this before, but it could be fun. I'd be interested!

*raises her hand* I want to participate again this year.

I can't run it this year because I'm both moving and going on vacation and wrapping up grad school semester all in the next two weeks. Also last year I sent out lots of extra gifts to many an ILXor to make up for bums and slackers and layabouts of yore who did not send packages ––– and I am still feeling MAD BURNT because my Secret Santa assignee never sent me anything. THAT is why people are grudgeful, Mark E. Smith!

To reexplain although it's quite clear:
– I sent out 3-4 extra packages I did not need to to spread goodwill
– the person asked to be my Secret Santa did not send me a gift
– no one gets to talk about "panopticism" anymore because I know who the secret person is
– and yet they did nothing
– causing all this NAGL whining

– also I may have misused "panopticism" but TO NO GREATER DEGREE THAN ANY OTHER INSUFFERABLE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSFUKHEAD

okay so i will do this:

email me at just1n379 at gmail dot com (the first part is NOT googleproofed - that is the actual address)

please include:

your full name
your ilx name (not sandbox name)
your address
will you be receiving? y/n
will you be giving? y/n
would you like an extra person to send something to? y/n

let's make the deadline: DECEMBER 10, NOON, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, 2011

i forgot to add:

preference for same-country recipient?

if you have already emailed me, and you would prefer your recipient be in your country, let me know, otherwise i will assume you don't mind either way

wtf @ option to get without giving??????

?

bc lots of ppl sign up but never send anything out - and lots of ppl like to send out extra gifts. this way, if you're just upfront about it, everyone gets something. like me and abbs both said: we never get anything!!

to the sandboxer that just ilx-mailed me: send me your full name, regular ilx username, and address, and i'll hook you up.

can i get Z_S this year?

ooooh, how exciting! i dont' even know who you are, lol sandbox!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcg

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Email sent smoove

I think I got mine already, anonymously? Thank you very much Santa, it is awesome!

i dont think i got the email mentioning where i am to send to

I have honestly never heard of (or read) anything by the poster I'm supposed to be buying something for. Apologies in advance for a potentially generic present.

Kamb I emailed you a few days ago

Fucking fuck I double checked, and I spelled your name wrong in the address

yeah its an a. confusing for sure.

Thank you Secret Santa! The quills arrived intact!

I have to post a picture of my xmas card when I get home today, because I can say without hesitation that it is simply the GREATEST xmas card of all time. And the gifts were perfect. Thank you secret santa, you know who you are.

I have honestly never heard of (or read) anything by the poster I'm supposed to be buying something for. Apologies in advance for a potentially generic present.

I am so worried about disappointing the recipient of my gift, it's not even funny.

I had to share my awesome secret santa card.

WOW

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:)

Mailing mine out this afternoon. Excited!

working on getting mine assembled for the recipient, about whom i know little but hopefully enough to please them...

:) :) :)

THANKS SANTA!

Fuck! I'm so bummed I missed this