So Christmas was relaxing. I’d been planning on heading down to Atlantic City, but at the last minute: (read: “Christmas Eve”) I decided against it since I learned that the buses and trains were running on a pretty limited schedule and there’d have been a good chance I wouldn’t have been able to get into and — more to the point — out of town as easily as I’d have liked. Maybe next year.
In any case, I got some work done on Christmas Eve, crawled out of bed at about 3:00 yesterday afternoon, and went pub crawling instead. It was actually pretty remarkable, I thought, how few places were open, until I was reminded that in addition to it being (1) Sunday and (2) Christmas, it was also (3) the first day of Hannukah. Talk about a ghost town. None of my normal haunts were open, and the weather was totally ass, but the good folks at Karma, Veselka, Bar None, and Cheap Shots were able to help pull me through… Good times.
Today I woke up surprisingly early and started putting together a massive to-do list for the next few days. I’ve already eaten; paid rent and a few bills; returned a bunch of phone calls and text messages; sent a few school-related emails in anticipation of shoring up my schedule next semester; confirmed my flights and seat assignments for my little Seattle jaunt; dropped some NetFlix movies in the mail; fed the cat (twice); and burned a bunch of data CDs to dump onto my iPod before I leave. I think if I can keep the ball rolling I might go catch a movie tonight. Maybe “Narnia” or something.
Time to rant. It shouldn’t suprise anyone that this bugged me, but I couldn’t believe the nerve this woman at the drug store down the street had earlier this morning. I’d popped in to pick up toothpaste and she was waving a box of Christmas lights in one of the checkout lady’s faces and bitching, “Why aren’t these on sale?!?!? Christmas is over already!?!?” I mean, the unmitigated gall.
By that logic, I suppose candles should be cheaper after Advent and Hanuukah are over, or turkey should be cheaper the day after Thanksgiving, or paper bags should cost less right after Earth Day. Or, uh, perhaps more appropriately, the purchasing power of food stamps should increase the later in the month it gets. How ghetto. I mean, are people really so dumb that they just don’t appreciate the economic reality at play (i.e., that Christmas lights, while seasonable, are a fungible good easily stored and sold next year), or is it just a bizarre sense of post-holiday entitlement rearing its ugly head?
OK. Done now. Back to work.
