A potluck email went out to 52 team members this Monday. When I checked the signup sheet yesterday fewer than 20 people had signed up, including one person who said they hadn't decided what to bring yet. Epic fail.

I am one of those failures, I have no shame in saying. But I don't even know any of the people who have signed up. Who needs new people anyway?

Who needs new people anyway?

If those people are good cooks or good bakers? Then there is a use for them.

Do people tip the resident manager?

Damn, I hope not. Because I never have, and wouldn't know where to start.

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If those people are good cooks or good bakers? Then there is a use for them.

That is a good point. But I'm still coasting on the plantain tarts my sister brought me, and the random brownies that pop up here and there, so I haven't been feeling the craving. And, dammit, I'm a good baker. Just lazy. Maybe this weekend...I wonder if I can get free trade chocolate at Whole Foods. Probably, right?

Speaking of gifting, I don't know what's appropriate for our apartment building manager in LA. In NY, it was pretty clear what we should tip the super. But here? Do people tip the resident manager?

I had the same question. I feel like people don't do that here in SF, but I actually have a pretty great super and want to give him at least something. I was thinking $50.

Listening to a streaming radio station that plays Muppets Christmas music.

"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ONE DELICIOUS COOOOKIE."

"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ONE DELICIOUS COOOOKIE."

"What kind of jive present is that, man?"

Someone wrote in to one of the advice columnists about gifting at work. She was young, in her first job, and living paycheck to paycheck. In her office they routinely collected $75 from each person for a gift for the boss and then, for a "Holiday Party" went out to a very expensive restaurant, at each individual's expense.

She couldn't afford it and the columnist advised her to just say no.

they routinely collected $75 from each person for a gift for the boss

Boss must be getting severely underpaid. I mean, if I got just one gift worth $75, I consider myself ahead of the game.

In her office they routinely collected $75 from each person for a gift for the boss and then, for a "Holiday Party" went out to a very expensive restaurant, at each individual's expense.

That is insanity. Hell no.

Just got back from lunch - it is snowing giant wet snowflakes. Very decorative.

But - if only I hadn't lost my hat.