Having been a lucky recpient of Vortex gifts (that I was annoyingly impatient for), I can attest they're well worth the wait.

You do remember that any sort of I'm-slacking-but-not-gone or still-looking-for-this-one-last-thing messages you'd like to send to your holding-their-breath-in-anticipation giftees are more than welcome to be mediated through me, right?

Oh hey, I almost forgot about this. Should we have an amnesty or something? I Slacker-gifted, but not Slacker-giftee'd.

There are still a number of us that are active on the slacker front. I have neither sent nor received my slacker gift. I have two parts of my gift ready to go but haven't gotten the third part done yet. I do slacker each year because I'm quite exceptional at being a slacker.

I am such a slacker that the entire gift is sitting in my office. Why? Because I have to write the card. PATHETIC. I swear, if I don't get to it by lunchtime, the card is going to say - "I suck. Hope you like it"

I have been gifteed! Or... something! I got a watch. But no, not just a watch, for this is more of a swiss army knife compactly enclosed in a watch, adorned with a compass, dangling from a carabiner. So I can check the time and direction, remove splinters, open bottles, and slice things, all without getting an allergic reaction on my wrist and, therefore, losing the watch. I love it. It's like geek-butch-chic with a side of apocalypse readiness. Thank you, d! Plus, it comes with a plastic case which has an attachment so you can hang that from your belt, too -- unlikely, as it's probably 3" x 6" x 1". But if I were the hard-smoking fisherman they seem to think I must be to have this watch, maybe I'd have that much space on my belt. Maybe I'll let them know about the vast geek-butch-postapocalypse market they're missing!

Check d off the list, for she has given, and given well. I've been showing it off to selected (geeky) students all week and bragging about my holiday present.

YAY it got to you ok! It looks very cool; might need to get it for some other people as well!

sighs

So I'd be right in thinking that I no can haz seekrit Santa?

I know I shouldn't be sad about it, 'cause I know it's karma that I've earned, in a number of contexts, and I should just suck it up. (But it does make me laugh a bit at how much of a slacker I felt back in December, when I mailed my gift and thought '...that'll not get there in time for Christmas.')

Ah well.

Fear not, Fay. I finally gave my gift to mfnlaw last freaking week. It could still happen. I hold out hope. And you might even get it at the F2F! (which happened to me before when my gift from Connie went awry and I got a lovely scarf as a makeup)

If anyone plans to send anything to me, they might need to know that I'll be at a different address for 6 weeks during the summer.