Bugging Out
      by James


Friday,  December 19, 2003 - 10:25 PM

            Greetings to my loyal and much loved fan base.  Wait a moment; I don’t have one of those.  Well greetings poor, bored schmoe that is reading this.  As you may have noticed there has been a lack of posting anything on this site for quite some time.  I, for my part, have been incredibly busy since my last rant and have not been able to make the time to write these little life changing words of inspiration of mine.  Why? Well if you really want to know, and even if you don’t I’ll tell you.  For the past month I have been busy out of my mind typing 10 page research papers, writing and delivering presentations for multiple classes, and to top things off spending what seems like more than half of my natural life in a lab looking at insects through a microscope.  Fun, I know. Doesn’t it just make you want to have my life?  But now that school is out and my time is once again my own, I shall promptly return to doing that for which you people read this site to begin with, ranting.

            Is it just me or does it seem that Christmas time is becoming way to commercial?  The last time I checked Christmas was a time for spending time with your family and loved ones and, stay with me on this last part, celebrating the birth of JESUS.  But with today’s society Christmas has turned into a season of money.  The abuse starts first with your senses.  The T.V. networks in all their programming glory start showing Santa and Rudolf movies in July.  July!  December, which is the month that Christmas is in, is usually cold and comes at the end of the year.  I don’t know why that’s just where the Romans put it.  July on the other hand is this part of the year we call SUMMER.  But this is just the beginning of the marketing ploys.  When good old October rolls around what do you see what I see?  Do you heat what I hear?  If you do then you know that before Halloween is even over these stores have already unloaded all the Christmas decorations and songs.  Evidently it takes two whole months now just to get in the Christmas spirit and get all that valuable shopping done.  It just seems to me that the holidays have adopted a spirit of “Give me more” when it just shouldn’t be so.  The only songs the stores are sing go a little something like this: We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, Only if you shop here. Oh we won’t stop until you buy things, we won’t stop until you buy things, we won’t stop until you buy things, so buy them right now.

            The other thing that bothers me at this time of year is the really bad T.V. specials.  Don’t get me wrong, I like some of them, but if I see one more Herbert the millipede saves Christmas I swear I’m going postal.  Every single one of these great works of cinema feature something happening to Santa so he can’t deliver presents and then the hero saves the day against all odds.  How wonderfully predictable and rewarding to watch. No really, I mean it.  Well if you will excuse me I have to go and deck my halls, they’re acting up again.

 "The Mick" - Bah! Humbug! Such wonderful words

Currently listening to: Memories Off piano collection
Currently reading: nothing
Currently reading: A Charlie Brown Christmas.  Yes, I do have Christmas spirit.
Currently missing:  My girlfriend