Julia writes:

I’ve survived yet another holiday season! I guess it’s not really a big deal, except my holidays tend to be filled with torment stemming from my surname: Christmas.

Oh, the winter break: a time of gathering, be it for a recognized holiday of significance or just for those government-mandated days off, coupled with gift-giving, food-eating, and lazy-being. I’d go on and on about how warm and fuzzy the winter holidays can make one feel, but FUN FACT: it’s over.

Congratulations, Julia! You, as well as everyone else reading this column have survived yet another holiday season, as well as another year! Is this that notable? Absolutely. To the person who lives day-to-day and scoffs at this, you sound like a hardly injured sports professional, but please, allow me to explain.

Julia’s survival of the holiday season seems pretty noteworthy to me. A lot of things are noteworthy to me, and that just so happens to be the purpose of this column. You Are Superfantastic! is a column about congratulating you and all interesting shenanigans that you are up to!  Even if those shenanigans involve an overwhelming hatred for the word shenanigan (honestly, if that was the case, I wouldn’t blame you), I will heartily pat your back and tell you shenanigan looks rather awkward for a word.

Julia, I urge you to take a look at my last name. What is it? Chui! No, I am not related to Chewbacca. Take a look across your copy of Imprint (if you’re reading one), and check the names. Is there a Johnny Thanksgiving? Is there a Jackie Family Day? Is there a Cuba Good Friday Jr.? To the best of my recollection, there are no such people at Imprint! Chances are, those people are pretty rare, if not non-existent all together!

(As an aside, ten points to you if you can find a person in the paper with a Pokémon for a last name)

The basic idea is that Christmas is a reasonably uncommon last name. I’m sure that at Christmas family reunions, there are tons of Christmas people and a few lost holiday shoppers, but the point stands: you have a name that stands out!

However, as the case is with anything that sticks out is the fact that someone will take note of it and attempt to be funny about it. Multiple people have probably tried to wish you happy birthday on Christmas Day, thinking they’re original and hilarious. I bet you’ve watched the film “The World Is Not Enough,” and oh, I bet you absolutely loathe the ending quip by 007. I’m sure Pierce Brosnan is a nice guy and all, but no exceptions, am I right?

But like I said at the very beginning of the column: the holiday season is over. Winter break is done. Classes have started again, new issues of Imprint are filling up the shelves, and holiday memorabilia is on discount now. You’ve survived, and if anything, that’s a testament to your strength and toughness! Sure, you might consider it to be “torment,” but when you’ve dealt with this for years, you build up a resistance; it becomes familiar.

To quote a rather morbid idiom, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words simply can’t hurt you! You’re extremely resilient, and this Christmas-abuse isn’t something everyone can handle. It’s almost like a superpower, if you were a heroine with extremely underwhelming abilities! Your archnemesis might try to figure out new ways to hurt you with words, but you’ll always manage to bounce back and defeat them with your imperviousness to them!

Regardless of superpowers or not, you’ve still got a pretty sweet last name. You’re also unsusceptible to its associated jokes, and you’ve made it past the holidays to the new year. Not everyone can lay claim to those achievements, so congratulations, Julia! Enjoy what benefits your surname might bring you; I’m sure something nicer than a column will eventually come up.

Also, you can’t really blame Father Christmas for your name.

You Are Superfantastic! is a column about you! Specifically, it’s about congratulating you! If you’ve done anything you think is worth getting congratulated for – acing a test, making friends, not being dead, so on and so forth – send it over to rchui@imprint.uwaterloo.ca, follow @YRSPRFNTSTC on Twitter, or hit up youaresuperfantastic.com and you just might get congratulated!