Ho Ho Whore!

Santa is a fat money-sucking Elf.

The Miracle on 34th Street - this

Santa need not apply today!

Back in the day a trip to the Mall Santa was an exercise in innocent hope.  Now it is merely preparatory school to the fleecing of parents.  Until the late 1980s - Mall Santas were hopelessly ersatz with fake beards, hair, and stained outfits.  Malls and large department stores brought in Santa to lure shoppers to their stores - sort of like the the 99-cent shrimp cocktail in the casino bar in Las Vegas.

In The Miracle on 34th Street - Santa was very good and probably real or crazy and flanked by sadistic elves as in A Christmas Story.  A visit to Santa was free with parents taking the snappy-flash photo and for a price - the professionals could take one for those parents who forgot their camera or had the humility to accept that their photos sucked. 

No longer.

Finals Week Care Packages

The Resident Hall Association Strikes Again!

Mrs. Cardona must be very happy to be so loved.  December brings Christmas Lights, Office end-of-the-year parties, mistletoe, and at campuses like VBU across the country - Finals Week.  That end of semester week marks furious studying and writing.  Finals week marks the point when it is less important that the term-paper be perfect, than finished.

Apparently Finals Week also strains the stomach and body as well as the mind.  The VBU Residence Hall Association offers parents to fill out a card of encouragement - to be delivered FREE to our cherub during Finals Week.  For an additional $25.00 to $42.00 we can send one of four suggested care packages filled with "wholesome" and "high energy" snacks.  With names like the "Exam Survival Pack" and "Support Basket Pack & Cup of Inspiration" - the VBU Residence Association promises that not only will ordering be a snap and guaranteed to be loved by our student.

Then I can be just as loved as Mrs. Cardona.