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[goytoy]

I've been feeling a bit down the last few days, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is related to what Neil has dubbed "The Chinababy Syndrome." Luckily, he bought me a big box of crayons and a nice sketchpad for Hanukkah. I mentioned this to a couple of people and they laughed, as if this were a silly present. Do Not Mock the Crayons! I adore crayons

Comments

[darryn]

I end up buying one of the small boxes of crayons just about every year.

[goytoy]

'Cuz you are teh cool.

[je_reviens]

yay hannukah!

[goytoy]

I am actually of two minds about Hanukkah. On the one hand, I am all for holidays. I love to sit in the candlelight on Shabbat, so the more candles, the better, say I. But it's such a minor holiday and I hate the way that it has been made into some kind of substitute Christmas. I mean, I never see anything in the mall at Passover or Rosh Hashanah, say, but at Christmas-time there will always be a menorah stuck amongst the holiday trees as a sign of respect "for our Jewish customers." Or people will say "Happy Hanukkah" to me weeks after it has ended, because they just know that it's "The Jewish Christmas." I know people mean well and I don't really take offense, but personally, I'd just as well have people wish me Merry Christmas under those circumstances. Around the people I know, it's so secularized that I don't really feel that it interferes w/ my religious principles. (Of course, it goes both ways. I know a Jewish guy who refused to accept a holiday gift because the bearer called it a "Christmas present." Honestly. Jerk. I would