holiday cheer

[vaznetti]

OK. I am going to go out on a limb here, but it seems to me that a meme that has questions like "How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? and "Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?" and lacks questions like "Do you exchange gifts every night of Hanukkah?" or "Do you puree the potatoes for your latkes or just grate them?" might as well just go ahead and have the balls to call itself a Christmas meme rather than a holiday meme.

In other news, I am looking very hot today in a new sweater and new jeans. Note to self: buy more clingy sweaters.

My task for today is to try to be less bitchy. As you can see, it's not going so well.

Comments

[vaznetti]

As with all questions to do with Jewish practice, the question really means, "Do you do X my way or are you WRONG?"

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

No no, please. Be MORE bitchy. :D

[vaznetti]

I fear for my students, a little. I very nearly laid into a colleague while we were talking about showing documentaries in class, because I was getting more and more irritated by the whole conversation.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

What she said. ::points to comment above::

[vaznetti]

Will I make it through tutorial without saying something cruel? I rather doubt it. At least I managed ot avoid saying something that would have been completely unforgivable to a colleague during a conversation earlier today.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

And I'd like some questions to the effect of, "Do you hate holiday music, or do you just have no taste?" "Will you be going to a Kwanzaa celebration this year?" "Do you bellow Here comes the sun to yourself on December 21?"

[vaznetti]

"Do you bellow Here comes the sun to yourself on December 21?"

I have not done this yet, but I will from now on.

Oh, holiday music. Ugh. Especially, modern holiday music. I want a meme where you can select popstars who record Christmas songs and subject them to horrible torments.

[rhi]

Oh, *yes*. ::shudders:: I heard part of an Enya album in the store the other day. Eep. And Barry Manilow doing 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' just feels so wrong on so many levels...

[alysswolf.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up we had pop stars who could actually sing -- people like Perry Como, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and so forth. Their Christmas songs are now the classics the modern popstars are trying to imitate and doing a pretty poor job of it, I must say.

[rhi]

Hell, when I was growing up the rockers were doing their takes and some of them were damn good.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

I love Christmas music personally... though not the contemporary pop kind. (And for the record, 'Rocking Around the Christmas Tree' is one of my unfavorite pieces of all time.) The kind of stuff I like was written in the 5th, 6th, 9th centuries. There's some very cool, incredibly lively early Spanish Christmas music that just makes you want to get up and dance.

[vaznetti]

I like traditional Christmas carols. But I don't need to hear them every time I enter a public space with piped music, every day from late November to early January.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Anything that becomes too frequent (or, needless to say, is imposed upon you without your input) loses its specialness and impact. Or worse, becomes something you dread.

Though stores and malls don't tend to play the stuff I'd like to hear. Time to pull out the Chanticleer Christmas CD. Now that's my idea of cool: ancient music done a cappella by amazingly good voices.

[cofax7]

I think you're awesome. And right on. And hot. And stuff.

Besides, it can't be Christmas: my birthday hasn't happened yet.

[vaznetti]

I like Christmas! Honest! I just don't see why people can't remember that it's a Christian holiday.

Thank you. I think that you are all those things, too, even though I will probably never stop being amused that you too have fallen into the great pit that is SPN fandom.

[ms-pie.livejournal.com]

Now lets be honest here... if it were a *real* holiday meme, it would also have to reference Festivus :-)

Good luck with the bitchy thing - I find that when I get in robo-bitch mode, it is best just to stand back and let me go with it... Or at least that is the lesson that Mr. Pie has learned!!

[vaznetti]

I think I frightened my students into participating in class today. They could probably sense the agression or something.

[rhi]

::winces:: You're right. I'll go change that, and mention it to Dragon, too. Sorry!

[vaznetti]

Oh no -- you didn't invent that meme, did you? I just assumed you'd picked it up from someone else. I didn't mean to be offensive. Well, I kind of did, but I didn't mean to be offensive to you personally.

[rhi]

Nope, I didn't invent it -- Dragon and I got it in email from his stepmom and it'd probably hit LJ well before *then*, since she's always a couple years late with urban myths and such. However, none of it changes the fact that you're right: it's more a Christmas meme than a holiday meme. Sorry about that, dear! I'll go change my header.

[rhi]

And now that I think about it, what's worse is that I'd have enjoyed questions like the ones you listed. ::giggling:: The latkes answer would be, "Let me try one made each way and then you'll know by what recipe I ask for..."

Hmm. Needs your questions, a couple each for Eid, Kwanzaa, and Yule, and then we're good, I think....

[alysswolf.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Eid in October? Not that learning about how people celebrate the feast wouldn't be fascinating, though.

[rhi]

I honestly don't know. I do know the post office has a list of stamps for sale for the holidays starting with generic snowflakes and then running down through Hannukah (which I can never spell), Kwanzaa (same comment), and Eid. Time for me to go Google...

[vaznetti]

The Islamic religious calendar is lunar and unmodified, so holiday dates cycle through the year. People in England end up fasting a lot longer when Ramadan is in June than they do when it's in December!

[rhi]

How cool! So it's just 'every x moons'. Thanks for explaining!

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Go you with your bitchy hotness! Clingy sweaters can do that to a girl.

[vaznetti]

Bitchy and hot -- it's like a win-win situation!

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

It's all the things *I* like about you!

Also, your smarts, and your dry wit, and you sane fannishness, and...you get the picture. *g*

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

Goofy me was hoping you'd answer the question about the latkes.

Latkes confuse me. How can both those foods be the same thing? But, as long as you dump applesauce on them, I'm happy to eat either one.