A Belated List Of Presents:
In every stocking hung by the fire with care (And also the ones not.) a gag gift in the form of an Official Anti-Telepath Foil Hat Kit dwells, although Dr. Grey says this will -not- keep her from knowing if someone's cheating on a test.
She also contributed a Terry's chocolate orange to each stocking, alternating through the white, dark, milk and raspberry chocolate varieties depending on the recipient's tastes, should Jean know them, and luck of the draw otherwise. Trades, after all, can be made.
Most of the students received a $20 gift card (As Jean's christmas gifts to students do not exceed the $20 range anyways.) to a store that appears to suit their interests, but for the ones Jean knows well enough:
Tim recieved a Moleskine notebook, with a little note on the inside flap saying that every writer should have one.
For Yvette, a full set of oil pastels, and some rubber grip expanders to make them easier to hold.
For Mira, a pair of SoundPads, guaranteed to turn any surface into a speaker. Jean thinks they might combine interestingly with audiokinesis.
For Cassy, a set of Curiously Strong Magnets. Jean is equally sure that Cassy will find a use for tiny magnets that can lift 400 times their own weight, and that she -trusts- Cassy will use them in a fashion consistant with minimal property damage.
For Jeremy, a set of hematite gaming dice, and a somewhat surreptitiously-shared bit of history that she, Dr. Grey, used to play a rogue for a couple months back in college before things got too busy. She trusts that Jeremy will use this knowledge for good, and give her dice a good home.
For Aidan, a copy of How to Survive A Horror Movie.
For Illyana, a hand-bound copy of a treasury of Russian fairytales, with a firebird pattern worked into the leather.
For Jubilee, a box full of FOOSH energy mints, Javapops, Buzz Bites chocolate chews, and other things that combine caffeine and sugar. They are NOT, on pain of Jean's ingenity, to be shared with wee Nate.
For Rogue, the traditional gift from Jean of a pair of vintage opera gloves. This year's feature seed pearls embroidered along the edges of sea green silk.
For Kitty, a copy of How To Survive A Robot Uprising.
For Logan, a new leather biking jacket, lined with sheepskin and undecorated beyond for a circled-X patch on one shoulder, and a Canadian flag on the other.
For Scott, a set of automotive tools that Jean clearly has no idea of the use of half of them, but just as clearly took the time to walk into an automotive store and throw herself on the mercy of a sales rep.
For Kurt, a copy of The Government Manual for New Pirates
For Hank, a collector's edition of Deep Impact, and more seriously geekily a copy, on CD, of an astrophysics paper detailing the nature of the universe from one brilliant NASA mind's point of view that has yet to hit the published journals yet. It appears that talks with scientists have not only been focusing on asteroids.
For Xavier, likely from the same antiquing trip as Rogue's gloves, a particularly fine astronomers' astrolabe in brass and wood.
For Xorn, a copy of the Riverside Shakespeare. She did not go for the mood magnets, after some thought.
Wee Nate recevied a BRIO train set, all little wooden trains with magnet attachments. Jean is hoping to offset the noisy things everyone else seems to have gotten him.
Bahir will receive in the mail a kit that will entitle him to a DNA Art portrait of his genome. A note from Jean says that it's useless scientifically, but looks REALLY COOL hanging in an office, which she's sure he's on his way to getting. (http://www.dna11.com/)
She also contributed a Terry's chocolate orange to each stocking, alternating through the white, dark, milk and raspberry chocolate varieties depending on the recipient's tastes, should Jean know them, and luck of the draw otherwise. Trades, after all, can be made.
Most of the students received a $20 gift card (As Jean's christmas gifts to students do not exceed the $20 range anyways.) to a store that appears to suit their interests, but for the ones Jean knows well enough:
Tim recieved a Moleskine notebook, with a little note on the inside flap saying that every writer should have one.
For Yvette, a full set of oil pastels, and some rubber grip expanders to make them easier to hold.
For Mira, a pair of SoundPads, guaranteed to turn any surface into a speaker. Jean thinks they might combine interestingly with audiokinesis.
For Cassy, a set of Curiously Strong Magnets. Jean is equally sure that Cassy will find a use for tiny magnets that can lift 400 times their own weight, and that she -trusts- Cassy will use them in a fashion consistant with minimal property damage.
For Jeremy, a set of hematite gaming dice, and a somewhat surreptitiously-shared bit of history that she, Dr. Grey, used to play a rogue for a couple months back in college before things got too busy. She trusts that Jeremy will use this knowledge for good, and give her dice a good home.
For Aidan, a copy of How to Survive A Horror Movie.
For Illyana, a hand-bound copy of a treasury of Russian fairytales, with a firebird pattern worked into the leather.
For Jubilee, a box full of FOOSH energy mints, Javapops, Buzz Bites chocolate chews, and other things that combine caffeine and sugar. They are NOT, on pain of Jean's ingenity, to be shared with wee Nate.
For Rogue, the traditional gift from Jean of a pair of vintage opera gloves. This year's feature seed pearls embroidered along the edges of sea green silk.
For Kitty, a copy of How To Survive A Robot Uprising.
For Logan, a new leather biking jacket, lined with sheepskin and undecorated beyond for a circled-X patch on one shoulder, and a Canadian flag on the other.
For Scott, a set of automotive tools that Jean clearly has no idea of the use of half of them, but just as clearly took the time to walk into an automotive store and throw herself on the mercy of a sales rep.
For Kurt, a copy of The Government Manual for New Pirates
For Hank, a collector's edition of Deep Impact, and more seriously geekily a copy, on CD, of an astrophysics paper detailing the nature of the universe from one brilliant NASA mind's point of view that has yet to hit the published journals yet. It appears that talks with scientists have not only been focusing on asteroids.
For Xavier, likely from the same antiquing trip as Rogue's gloves, a particularly fine astronomers' astrolabe in brass and wood.
For Xorn, a copy of the Riverside Shakespeare. She did not go for the mood magnets, after some thought.
Wee Nate recevied a BRIO train set, all little wooden trains with magnet attachments. Jean is hoping to offset the noisy things everyone else seems to have gotten him.
Bahir will receive in the mail a kit that will entitle him to a DNA Art portrait of his genome. A note from Jean says that it's useless scientifically, but looks REALLY COOL hanging in an office, which she's sure he's on his way to getting. (http://www.dna11.com/)