Usually the lights make me feel more Santa and less Scrooge. Maybe it's that there are fewer lights this year, but I just can't force myself to care. I finished my shopping with 3 weeks to go and now all I want to do is make everyone open their gifts early. Christmas is just an arbitrarily chosen day to celebrate a made up holiday anyway, why not open things early? I've gotten a few people to cave, but it hasn't been easy. Still I did try to choose things that were actually useful and individual to the people and didn't pay much attention to the cost. I'm averaging about $35 a person right now. When you're buying for 24 people, that's not small change. Sigh. The truly ironic thing is that this year I actually don't want anything. I guess that's good since I don't think anyone's really getting me anything. Fuck holidays. Fuck consumerism. Fuck the economy.
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