What do you want for Christmas (i.e. any commercial holiday this month)?

Most of you were gunning for some cash for Christmas, though not all of you wanted to spend it on yourselves. Either way, we're not judging. Some of our most selfless readers asserted that they wanted to be able to afford gifts for others. Others had this to say:

"Money, a trip for seven to Paris, Rome or London, and a new pair of shoes."

After going on in a guilt-laden fashion about wanting good sex for Christmas, being tired of going on dates and having their hormones take over and the result being sex with someone when they wished they hadn't, one reader claimed, "I guess what I want is just to meet that right someone."

Here's more of your responses:

"This morning I wanted new clothes for Christmas, but this realization made my inner child jump up and down on my inner couch screaming 'LEGOS LEGOS LEGOS LEGOS LEGOS...'"

"Four days of frozen time so I can sleep. This last couple of weeks with finals and trying to scrounge money and ideas for presents for my enormous family sucked. Since I can't have that maybe some little T-shirts. I like the ones with cute cartoon figures like the Powerpuff Girls on them."

"I have a wish list of stuff. And any time anyone asks me what I want for my birthday or something, I select some things off the list. But they never want to get me any of the damn stuff, 'cause they don't think it's not fun enough. Well, damn it, I do want the most recent edition Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Geez."

Do you get headaches? What do you do to relieve them?

"Migraines! Five days of pain and nausea. In the old days I would merely roll around on the floor of a dark room and beg to be killed. But I recently discovered that attacking it early (when the first twinges start up behind the eye) can help head off the worst of it--it doesn't even take much, just a couple Tylenol. This keeps it at a dull roar."

"The solution for truly-terrible-I-am-unable-to- get-rid-of-this-heaches? Pot my friends. Plain old-fashioned dope smoking. Gets rid of the nausea and you float away from the migraine."

"Depending on the type of headache, I usually take about six aspirin throughout the day. If I get them later in the afternoon or at night, I try to sleep it off. Also, try squeezing the section between your thumb and forefinger, that sometimes works."

"I find myself pressing my skull as hard as I can against the wall for long periods of time when the migraine sets in. It seems to displace some of the outrageous throbbing driving pain. Another remedy is taking an aspirin bottle (or any hard plastic pill bottle) and placing it straight up on my pillow then lying temple down on it for a bit of a cramped nap. Another remedy is taking ice cold followed by scorching hot-as-the-water-will-get showers. The final chapter of my migraine home cure is sticking two or three fingers down my throat and vomiting as much bile as I can. This usually turns the tide--soon after a successful purge I feel woozy, then tired, then elated to be normal again."

"Migraines, stress headaches, hunger headaches--you name it. My solution? Cafergot (for migraines), Excedrine for everything else."

What class, if any, in college do you remember liking the most?

"I just finished a gothic art class that was fantastic, the professor is the key to a great class. She was funny, round and extremely intelligent--a good combo."

"I had a class that was a study of cartoons. You would think it would be an easy A but damn was it hard. Trying to figure out how Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse have influenced Rug Rats is a bitch."

"Classical Chinese--the class made my brain hurt, but the Professor took us all to Disney World for spring break."

"My favorite class as an undergraduate was Anatomy & Physiology. I'm a Science Geek!"

"Ceramics. It was an all day class and my teacher was really liberal. She'd let us go at our own pace, we could come and go at our own discretion as long as we got our work done. I never arrived before 10:00 though the class began at 9:00. That was nice. And I made some pretty cool things that I still have."

"John Mill Thornton, the most brilliant Professor you ever came across. He taught The Ordeal of the Union, his amazing class on the American Civil War that never actually studies the war, just before and after. He's brilliant, this guy, with the most outrageous Alabama accent. One of those unattractive types who becomes wildly sexy as you watch him lecture."

Would you send your food back in a fancy restaurant if it was ill-prepared?

"If I was footing the bill yes. I would feel agonizing terror upon doing it but I would have to. Of course I would try not to make a big deal about it, maybe even corner the waiter while I'm not at the table. If someone else pays, it's hard to say, I would feel like I'd be insulting them by sending it back so I'd be less likely to."

"FUCK YEAH!"

"If the food is just off from the way I like it I look at it as an opportunity to expand my horizons (and avoid calling attention to myself.) If it was inedible, I would agonize over it and maybe hope I could possibly get the courage to ask...if they don't mind...thanks...no offense..."

"I did. Last week. At Kas Bah. Three times. I had ordered a steak (you can't buy good-quality steaks at the market anymore) and they kept giving it to me practically still breathing. By the third time, they got it right and I got it for free. If I am gonna pay $25-30 for a fuckin' steak it better be the way I like it!"

"No! Two reasons... I would too feel guilty sending it back. I always think the Chef is too busy. And I'm a very picky eater and will never get food the way I want."

"Definitely send back food in a fancy schmancy restaurant! You're paying for service and quality."