Christmas is…

• the best traffic day in Los Angeles.
• a day when what you want to do is probably closed.
• really boring on Facebook.
• a time to see who was blessed with an eye for lighting design and who was not.
• similar to hurricane coverage in Miami: starts off slowly until, by the end, you just want to kill yourself to be spared the horror of its wrath.
• a terrible time in television.
• cruel to children. (Specifically, the lengths adults go to to lie about Santa {NORAD, Google Earth, etc}, only to admit it was all a hoax. How is that kind?)
• a day to celebrate the “fisher of men” with a tree adorned by various plastics and popcorn.
• awkward. (“Merry Christmas!” “Oh…thanks!” “What are you doing for it?” “…nothing.”)
• a lot of work and a lot of pressure.
• unoriginal 
• a great excuse not to get things done.
• sweet.
• well-intentioned.
• annoying.  (I don’t begrudge anyone a bad Christmas, quite the opposite. I just get so tired of hearing about it.)

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