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Well, my suitcase is packed with gifts and clothes, my netbook is charged and tucked up in my messenger bag, I've cleared the FAA hazards (two knives, one lighter) out of the pockets and replaced them with granola bars, and I've lost and re-found my travel documentation three times, so all the proper travel obsequies have now been observed.

Whenever I travel I wear a Saint Christopher medal mum bought me, because I'm not a Christian but I'm given to understand that Jesus loves me anyway. We joke about the medal because apparently Christopher is not technically a saint anymore, since one can't prove he existed or possibly he didn't perform enough miracles or something. Anyway, Mum always asks if I'm wearing my Mr. Christopher medal. Patron saint of travelers and those brought low by an uncertainty as to their existence, that's Mr. Christopher.

Frankly between him and Dysmas, all my favourite saints are of potentially fictional origin. Is anyone surprised?

Anyhow, I'm off into the wilds. Everybody stay safe and well-behaved and I'll post when I get into Austin around six tonight. (Or from my phone before then, if something particularly interesting happens.)

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MERRY CHRISTMAS, SAM!

Travel safe!

Safe Travels and Happy Holidays!!

What, no Saint Expeditus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Expeditus)?

And he's a saint we could really use, given the transportational cockups which happen around christmas!

Sam - is your St Christophere dog-headed?

I sometimes wonder if these saints were invented by Hermes. It would fit their patronages and their questionable backstories.

I'm guessing I'm missing something, but...no? Should he be?

:D In Anglo-Saxon religious literature and art, and I think in some Eastern depictions, but not in the rest of Western medieval hagiogrpahy, St Christopher is depicted as A Cynocephalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christopher_icon.jpg). No one quite knows why, or why the Anglo-Saxons had picked up this representation and run with it, but there you go! Dog-headed St Christophers are cooler than other St Christophers, I tell you.

That is SO COOL and SO TERRIBLY STRANGE. Thanks for the info!

The patron saint of hackers! LOL!

Safe travels and a merry christmas to you, Sam :)

Happy Holidays and Safe Travels to Sir Samuel and the Cafe!

May I second this as well as to you morgan_lowri. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It actually got kinda cold down here, I think (though haven't been outside to confirm this)! So!

Yay, South-Texas weather?

I'm excited to be going to Memphis, and then Indiana, in a few days. I hear it's snowing up there, and I haven't had a white Christmas (I had a kinda grey-brown one, once, in Louisiana). So that sounds like a good thing to have, maybe.

Have a safe and Happy Christmas! <3

Merry Christmas, Sam! Hope your travel is miraculously free of delays and other inconveniences. And thanks for making me laugh again ("Patron saint of travelers and those brought low by an uncertainty as to their existence, that's Mr. Christopher."). :)

Do you regularly carry knives in your pockets? *is curious*

Oh, not my pockets, the messenger bag's pockets. :) Knives tend to come in handy often enough that they're useful to have. Ditto lighters. :)

Ahaha, okay. I would have had to drastically revise my image of you if you turned out to be smoking, knife-wielding!Sam.

I wonder if they make St Patrick medals.

I'm sure they do! They make medals for everything. :D

They totally do. You can even get them on amazon.

Dude, are you sure you even exist?

Safe and speedy travels anyway...

Technically I have no proof you exist

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THIS WAS CLEARLY A CURSE :D

Lighters are okay so long as they're not in your checked baggage (where they're dangerous just by virtue of the fact that they can start a fire in the clothes if they're bumped wrong).

Happy Holidays, Sam!! Safe travels! We will be here when you get back. :D

Mister Christopher...hm? Maybe he hosts a children's show on the side? The belief must be running a bit low since he got 'outed' as potentially fictional...

Hey, I'm not a Christian, but I wear a St. George's medal, and his existence is in doubt. His slaying of a dragon is in even greater doubt (and yet, that's what's on the medal). But he's the patron saint of the nation(s) of my ancestors. He also (depending on your source) is a patron saint of soldiers, and one of my best friends is a soldier. Plus, one of the most popular Christian saints. Probably because of that whole "slayed a dragon" thing.

I think I like wearing the medal of someone who may just be a legend that my ancestors liked than one of someone we know actually existed more.