For every last-minute shopper at Academy on Vance Jackson on
Monday morning, there was another excuse for being there on
Christmas Eve.  "I'm shopping at the last minute because I just
got paid," Paul Cervantes said.  He was buying boots for his
grandmother.  Letty Gomez had a longer list. She still needed to
shop for six people.  "I started on Friday and I didn't shop
Saturday or Sunday, so today's the last time," she said. "I'm
looking at the clock and I know stores start to close, so I have
no idea what to do."  Carolyn Hall had to finish her shopping at
the last minute because she said it's hard to pick gifts for her
husband.  "I'm a little overwhelmed because he's one of those
who just goes and gets what he wants, so I'm trying to find him
something different," she said.  The Carpenter family took the
divide and conquer approach. They had just a few more items on
their shopping list.  "We decided to come here and now we're
going to split up, because they're for each other, so we're
actually going to spli