#ps: do u have a favorite emoji dear holiday pal

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hellloooo my beloved 2024 holiday pal :D

i hope you are having a beautiful week so far, i am personally having a wonderful day because i got tickets to a concert i'm v excited about yesterday despite being 13,000 in the queue (hello....) for presale and still riding that high.. and i am traveling home tomorrow for holiday break which despite the flight i am excited for <3 my work graciously let me be remote all of next week so i could travel home a lil early so i am very excited. do you celebrate any winter holidays btw? 👀 and if so do you have any fun plans!! (if u want to share, please do not feel pressured).

perusing your about page, and linguistics and anthropology is such a neat area of study!! for anthro, do you have a speciality? also re: your about page, i saw on there go by two different names on here, do you have a preference for which one i call you during our exchanges? :) for this exchange to make it shorter than holiday pal u can call me j if you want 🫡

v excited to be your pal this season, i hope something happened today that made you smile 🥰

love,

j

hiiiii j thank u so much for this lovely lovely message!!

i have been drowning in work and hence this took a couple days to but it made me smile sm when it popped up :)

so pleased about your concert tickets!! truly there is no better feeling than defeating the evils of ticketmaster (presumably). what artist are u seeing, if u want to share? i just bought tickets to see tamino in spring and am on the fence about getting some for sam fender, although there was no huge for them thankfully 😌 otherwise the week has been....busy to say the least but the good thing about being close to a ton of deadlines is that i can justify spending hours in cute cafe's to get work done so! there's a positive to be found! do u have a standard coffee/treat order? i'm incredibly boring with mine and have been wanting to try new stuff out.

i'm also going home for the holidays, which i'm looking forward to sm <3 i don't realllly celebrate any holidays rn but hey the whole december vibe is so fun and sweet!! and i'm part of a couple holiday card/gift exchanges that should be a good time. don't have any huge plans besides spend a ridiculous amount of time w my cats and get through some of the books i've been piling onto my tbr, but some friends and i are trying to organize a night out for new years so we'll see how that goes....(it's like herding cats i love them dearly but logistically its a little nightmare lol) i'm also on a bit of a baking kick so all the free time will probably result in a large quantity of baked goods for my family haha :) how about you? any exciting holiday plans?

and omg thank u !! i'm primarily interested in cultural anthropology, especially folklore and oral tradition, but recently (and largely as a result of me starting to follow some sports) have gotten VERY swept up in sports anthro. it's relatively new as academic fields go but that's some of the appeal tbh. i'm hoping to maybe start drafting a journal article in that area over break but we shall see if i actually get to it hehe

as for the name thing, tara is good :) i used squish online for years and am still very fond of it but there is some appeal to being addressed with a name and not a verb

thank u again for this sweet message, i'm so looking forward to getting to know over the season 💖 hope u had/have a lovely day !!

love,

tara