Ah, the Company Christmas Party

On Monday, our department celebrated Christmas in the usual fashion: with a company party. Everyone brought food to share, we helped to lay out some lovely decorations, some tasteful holiday music was played in the background, and then we all sat around nibbling cookies and drinking spiced wine. The event started out somber and quiet...maybe because the spiced wine didn't have enough rum, or because the Christmas tunes were more like opera music than party music. In either case, this portion of the party was happily short-lived, and soon the party developed into an event with memorable highlights....

Once everyone had relaxed into the party, it was time for the annual secret Santa (Weihnachtsmann) gift exchange. To everyone's surprise, Professor Arzt decided to dress as Santa himself to hand out the gifts this year. Very funny. Kids at UIUC...just try to imagine Ian doing this...impossible, right?.Of course, no company Christmas party is complete without a healthy dose of embarrassment, so Shravanthi and I decided to perform a holiday line dance to show 'em how we do things in the south. The song we chose was "Santa Claus is Coming on a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train", which you can sample here. It actually turned out to be a success, and by the end we had half of the department on the dance floor trying to learn the dance along side us. Sorry, no video, but you can get the gist from the pics. Check out our amazing coordination!
So, until the next embarrassing moment, I bid you adieu!