Holy crap. I cannot express how surprised I was when 5 minutes ago a man with a thick French accent came in with this massive basket of fruit. I - and my lab mates - are extremely grateful for your generousity. This is by far the greatest Secret Santa gift EVER!!!11 Thanks so much.

Did I also mention a year of Reddit gold?!?

I SHALL BATHE IN YOUR ENVY, REDDITORS!

UPDATE: already floored by what I had gotten so far, today 5 large pizza's, wings, and bread sticks, all appeared at my office. We're a relatively small lab and it was such a wanton amount of awesome food that there was enough to share with the entire psychology department at Simon Fraser University. Thanks, secret santa, from me and the entire department! I was also told to expect something else in the mail within the next couple of days, so I will post another update as soon as it arrives.

UPDATE 2: Receiving a notice that there was a parcel waiting for me, I arrived at the post office a half hour ago. I started opening the tube-shaped package in my car. COOKIES! I fucking love rolled wafer cookies. And two packets no less. "WAIT! What's going on? They're taped together." A messaged scribbled on the side: THIS IS NOT COOKIES. Getting more and more difficult to open and drive at the same time, I put the package aside for a moment.

I just got to my office and ripped it open to find that on top of everything I've received so far, my SS just sent me a bottle of fine, 100% agave Mexican tequila. Tequila is my absolutely favourite alcohol, and, with some rocks, will be my exclusive drink of choice into the new year - should the bottle last that long :) Thank you for everything SS. And if you're ever in Vancouver, look me up. I owe you a drink.

Merry Christmas, everyone.