I went to work to find everyone giving each other baked goods and alcohol and other gifts. I had made cards for my own team, but several people had made gifts for every single person at the firm! I walked out of there with several different sets of baked goods, a gift card to Panera, and a bottle of Merlot. Plus my team had its own Secret Santa and Nanci got me a 500 recipe 5-ingredient cookbook. Yessss. I made Ian an elaborate and purposefully difficult Harry Potter crossword, which he is looking forward to. What's more, several people in the office wanted their own copies of it. It's pretty spectacular when people thoroughly enjoy a gift that took so much effort. It was also a convenient segue into many Harry Potter-based conversations, which were fun.
The morning went by quickly and then everyone headed over to a local restaurant for the firm Christmas Party. This firm has a tradition called the Rookie Show which they host every Christmas. Every person who was hired within the last year has to perform in what amounts to a silly talent show. Since today is my last day, I probably could've gotten out of it, but I'd already re-written "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" for the occasion, so I decided to just go ahead and do it. I was the 4th act up and the ones before me included a very good violinist, so that was tricky to follow. In the end, though, I didn't get booed (a common occurrence at the Rookie Show) and actually got a fair amount of applause, so I was satisfied.
The rest of the show was a lot of fun to watch. Some people were truly talented (great pop-and-lock routine, for example) and others embraced their talentlessness wonderfully, and it ended up being a lot of laughs. Afterward I gave my team the Christmas cards I'd made them (which had included copies of my poem, hence not giving them out before the show) and got my bonus and said goodbye. Two of my team reiterated that if I ever need recommendations or other support to let them know, which was very sweet.
I'm really glad today ended up being my last day because I doubt I could've left on a higher note than that.
On to packing to go to ST. LOUIS tomorrow!! Woohoo!
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