Week 2.2: Christmas Names

Every December my friends and I at TCU change our Facebook names to Christmas names because, well, we're just a festive group of friends. Not too sure when or where this tradition began but we love it and find great pleasure in helping others pick their Christmas names too. Allow me to provide an example. I did not participate in this year's Christmas names but last year I went by Elizalittletown O'Bethlehem Stallard. Well this year, Tori Bertschy became Achristmastori Bertschy right around the time we returned to TCU from Thanksgiving break. It wasn't until later that she realized, as did the others, that she was committed to being her Christmas name for 60 days because of a new Facebook setting. So here we are in Barcelona making new friends and the misunderstandings are unreal.

Last week, a guy on our program asked Tori if Achristmastori was of Croatian descent (since Tori occasionally brags about being Croatian to explain how she is freakishly tan in the dead of winter). Today, a club promoter addressed Tori as Achrist. He doesn't even know her and he's already given her Christmas name a nickname!! You bet your bottom dollar that Tori is now counting the days until regular, plain old Tori returns to Facebook. Until then, I will continue to enjoy the confusion.