It's December now. Doesn't it seem a little sudden to you? Last week, we couldn't wait for this term to end. I come back from Cadet Camp, and lo and behold, term's ending in a week! Not only that, but it's time to get your stockings (and wallets) ready, because you're going to need to get into the Christmas spirit.
I just spent a good half hour of my life searching for those very elusive Christmas cards from years passed, and eventually found them. I also found the list of every single person in the grade (and their classes) that I had somehow managed to sneak from the school administration (hush, don't tell!). So now it's time to start cutting down to who I want to send cards to, and start writing them out.
I can't get it under 50.
Unlike Vivian, who has a solid group of friends that she hangs out with every lunch and does her fun stuff with (and if her mother ever reads this, let me inform you that she's quite popular enough to have well over 10 friends, thank you very much), I don't actually have a very solid footing in the social ladder.
Unlike Sheldon (BBT), I can't make my own technically advanced escalator and allocate a certain amount of steps to whoever I deem worthy, removing said person when someone of higher worth comes along. I'm not that socially deprived.
Unlike Dennis, I at least have some kind of social life.
Just kidding! Just kidding!
To be honest, I don't know who Dennis is and what kind of friends he has... if he has any...
And unlike Kripa, who has deserted the blog (shame on you!), I'm not known by everyone, I don't know everyone, and I'm not going to write a card to everybody in the grade.
I'm a nomad. I have no best friends.
Vivian has, let's say, 200 facebook friends. But she has 10 friends that are really close to her, and she's labelled these all as her 'sisters' and 'brothers' (and in some cases, children... which is kind of disturbing actually).
Sheldon would have 5 facebook friends. Everybody else, he would deem as people he 'knows' but not as 'friends' so he wouldn't add anyone or accept anyone else. Since he would find it pointless to label the chosen 5 as family members, he wouldn't do it, but if he had to, these 5 friends would certainly be siblings.
Let's skip Dennis... because I don't know anything about him.
Kripa would have 500 facebook friends, but have something ranging from 5-20 siblings. You can't really tell who's close to her, because it seems to ever change.
Do you get what I mean now?
As for me, I'd probably have somewhere around 300, but none of them would be part of my family. Forget that I think it's pointless too, and weird. I have no actual group of friends of my own to actually have a family anyway. Not to say that I haven't had family requests before, because I have (rejected them too, as you can guess). I'm just a nomad, and prefer to have my large circle of semi-friends than have a small circle of best friends.
Wow... off track, much? What the hell was I talking about before?
Oh right, Christmas cards. Anyway, because I have so many semi-friends, and not that many close-friends, and certainly no best-friends, it's hard to narrow down who I want to send cards too. If I kept it to my close friends, I'd probably only end up sending it to ten people. But then my close-enough-but-not-really-close friends would be offended for not getting a card.
So I send the cards to the close-enough-but-not-really-close friends, but then my semi-friends in their class will see how many cards I gave out, and feel left out.
So then I'll have to give the cards to my close friends, close-enough-but-not-really-close friends, and my friends-who-aren't-that-close-at-all-but-still-are-friends. This will end up being 80% of the grade. So the remaining people will feel incredibly left out, because I'm sending so many cards out, but still managing to forget them.
So then I'll have to send a card to everyone I know, which is 90% of the grade. Then, the last 10% of people who I don't know will know that I gave out a lot of cards, and wonder why they didn't get one. And then I'll end up sending a card to every one in the grade.
See my dilemma?
So anyway, the fact that I've actually got it down to 50 is a great achievement in itself. And now I realise that I've got a bit carried away, so I shall end my post here. Congratulations if you actually made it to the end! You deserve a Christmas Card!
Ok, I won't start that again. Thanks for reading!
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