{"id":8,"date":"2004-12-20T21:38:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/12\/20\/gift-giving-grief\/"},"modified":"2006-04-30T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T19:29:13","slug":"gift-giving-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/12\/20\/gift-giving-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Giving Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love getting gifts.\u00a0 Especially nice, useful, thoughtful gifts.\u00a0 I just hate it when I don’t realize that we’re at the nice, thoughtful gift-giving level of friendship (which for me usually occurs after\u00a0the ten year mark, mostly because I’m lazy\u00a0and not particularly thoughtful).\u00a0 I try, I really do.\u00a0 I mean, I buy souvenirs when I can, often send postcards while away, and generally remember birthdays,\u00a0give or take\u00a0a few months, but buying so many gifts in such a short period of time is soooo hard!\u00a0 (whine, whine, whine)<\/p>\n

In any case, today the other first year in\u00a0my group,\u00a0someone who’s fast becoming one of my best friends in LA, gave me a beautifully engraved business card holder\/clock.\u00a0 It was thoughtful on so many levels: (a) I have nothing decorative in my office whatsoever right now and she thought it would be a nice place to start, (b) I like my name on things, it’s sad but true, and\u00a0(c) it’s the first, and likely only, thing I have that says “Esq.”\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately, it also left me scrambling to buy a gift that shouts “THOUGHTFUL” and not “I BOUGHT THIS AT THE LAST MINUTE, AND IT WAS THE ONLY THING LEFT IN THE STORE.”\u00a0 Although, perhaps I shouldn’t bother.\u00a0 I think I may have given it away when I gasped and said, “Wait, we’re getting each other gifts?!”<\/p>\n

On a brighter note, I had a great time at a friend’s potluck\u00a0last night in Long Beach, despite\u00a0somehow getting lost (keep in mind I’ve been to her house several times now since I’ve\u00a0gotten to LA)\u00a0on my way back and ending up at the LAX airport trying to figure out how\u00a0to get home.\u00a0 Oh well, at least I can take comfort in the fact that I provided some\u00a0holiday cheer\u00a0for friends when I called them up, repeatedly, asking for directions on how to\u00a0get back to my apartment, only to hang up and call again when I realized I’d forgotten half of what they had said.\u00a0 At least I’m assuming it was an overabundance of\u00a0holiday cheer that lead to the\u00a0non-stop laughing on their end.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love getting gifts.\u00a0 Especially nice, useful, thoughtful gifts.\u00a0 I just hate it when I don’t realize that we’re at the nice, thoughtful gift-giving level of friendship (which for me usually occurs after\u00a0the ten year mark, mostly because I’m lazy\u00a0and not particularly thoughtful).\u00a0 I try, I really do.\u00a0 I mean, I buy souvenirs when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}