"Check if there's a hole in my underpant? No! I saw a vomiting crab."

Okay, I'm going to give this holiday thing one more try this year. After the abysmal failure to get anything sent out last year, I've decided I got too ambitious - I won't plan on sending anything out besides cards, and if something else DOES get sent out it will be totally unplanned and spontaneous. (Last year the problem was I had like a billion things I wanted to send out and had like 2/3 of them ready but waited on the other third until it was too late and pointless.) However, most of y'all's addresses were lost when my UMKC account closed earlier in the semester, so the only person's address I have is jokersama's IL address.

So! Y'all, post your addresses here if you'd like a little somethin' over the holidays. (Any replies with addresses in them will be screened, so you won't have to worry about other folks seein' your addys.)

Anyway, things are windin' down! I met with my Chaucer prof today to discuss my paper, and she seems to think it's really good. (At least, all her criticism was "this is good, you just need to expand it more rather than rushing over it" rather than "er, I don't think this'll work," so that's a Good Thing, right?) She also really liked my reading of the Manciple's Tale that I talked about in class yesterday - REALLY liked it, apparently, because she mentioned it several times yesterday and several times during my meeting with her today. So maybe I'm not coming off like a brain-dead moron 100% of the time. XD

It's funny, though: yesterday one of my classmates mentioned, in a discussion of Chaucer and alcohol, that he'd never been drunk. The prof was like, "Now, I don't mean to advocate booze or anything, but I think maybe you need to have been drunk before to understand the Canterbury Tales. But no peer pressure!"

( The Santa meme, from everyone on the flist... )

( ...and the anti-santa meme, from janaki )

( True Rune quiz result )

Let's Positive Linking!
- Cafe stirs debate over kids' behavior. I actually get livid when dealing with parents like this, who are all "ZOMG WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU EXPECT MY KID TO BEHAVE, OBVIOUSLY YOU JUST HATE PEOPLE WITH KIDS YOU...YOU...PARENTIST!" I kind of want to punt them through a wall.
- This is a fetish I had not been aware of. That's pretty bad though, I'm glad the guy's been put away.
- Best Gift Boardgames Guide 2005. (This and the above link from rathershady.)
- If you like Engrish, check out these bad Hong Kong action flick subtitles. "How can you use my intestines as a gift?"
- To be honest, I don't know how to describe this link. It's more Engrish though! (Not worksafe; this and the one above from jokersama.)