Parties of Christmastime

I think I thought there were a lot of Christmas parties and festivities in college. But this year in particular I have never been to more Christmas parties. They included:

• The Olin Business School Staff Ornament Exchange
• The Eliot Society Dean's Holiday Brunch (this one was actually work)
• The Olin Business School Faculty and Staff Holiday Reception
• The Olin Alumni and Development Gift Exchange (this is just my department)
• The Alumni & Development potluck luncheon
• David Blasingame's Alumni & Development Holiday Reception (this one I didn't end up going to)
• plus two different ones with friends from church.

.... all within about 10 days. Needless to say, I was rolled all the way from St. Louis to the Carolina's this year. I took very few pictures, but this was a particularly fun white elephant with some friends from our church... where we saw and received some particularly interesting gifts.

Susan Peck and her GIGANTIC bronze basketball award from the Pollacks.

This wasn't actually ours. It was another gift from the Pollacks to the Pecks. But Yanni looked so good that Schub just HAD to take his picture with him.

This, in fact, was our gift. Chinese vodka of some kind. It was like 60% alcohol or something crazy like that. I promptly gave it away at another white elephant exchange about 3 days later.