By the slimy tentacles of Cthulhu, Cephalopodmas is here today, and I'm not prepared! I only got my grades submitted at 11:00 last night, and I slept in, and now I've got to get the tree up and drape it with squid and octopuses and do my cephalopodmas shopping, all at once. Why can't we have finals in like October, where they aren't tromping all over our holy sacred days?
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