by Laura Druda
Santa

Who Made This Site?

A picture of me
"Who made this site," you ask? Well, I did, Laura. I'm a 24-year-old graduate student of Library and Information Science at C.W. Post Long Island University and I made "Secret Santa, Simplified" for a class called "Passive Website Architecture," or more commonly "LIS650." I graduated with my bachelor's degree in Interpersonal/Intercultural Communication from SUNY New Paltz in May 2006, and I've been sad about leaving since the morning I drove away. I like travel, music, writing novels, photography, interesting food, and children's books.

Baby me with a light up Santa Claus
I consider myself to be the biggest December holiday fanatic around. One year, at about 17½-months-old, I posed for the picture to the right with a light up Santa Claus my grandparents had on their lawn, and I'm pretty sure that's the moment that I realized Christmas was special. I also celebrate Hanukkah, which definitely gets more elaborate and exciting every December. Each year, starting on November 1st, I listen, pretty much, only to holiday music, and I even sneak an occasional Christmas tune in July or August. Crazy, maybe. I call it "festive."

Considering what a holiday fanatic I am, I have partaken in a shockingly small number of Secret Santa exchanges. There were two, to be exact. Both times I have been faced with the same awkward gift confusion. With this site, I've really tried to help Secret Santa's either choose gifts, or get a jumping off point for choosing a gift. Basically, I shopped for a school project.
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