obligatory Christmas haul post

[ankah]

-milk chocolate (100+ pieces

Comments

[an_amadan]

Ivanhoe (one of my most favorite books everever) has been made into several films/miniserieses, each of indifferent quality but not too bad.

[ankah]

good to know. I was thinking it needs to be a block buster comedy, like Men in Tights.

xmas haulin'

[conculcate]

I thought y'all did the chanukah thing...?

Re: xmas haulin'

[ankah]

trying to explain to 9 million Chinese people in this town that "Christmas is a CHRISTIAN holiday, and I'm not a Christian" is impossible. The Australians i'm friends with complain about getting wished a "happy thanksgiving" every year. For the Chinese there is Chinese and Foreign. They think: you are foreigner, so the holidays McDonals, KFC, pizza hut and Walmart sell me are YOUR holidays. I tried arguing, but it was pointless.

I asked my students what Christmas means to them, and they said mostly it means people in stores wear red hats and you give gifts to each other. So, they give me gifts. Chocolate, to be exact.

[arpiana]

Just last night I made myself sick by eating an entire bag of Trader Joe's cookies. Isn't it great to finally be an adult?