Arrgh, it's December

[mamadeb]

*Contemplates rock to hide under.*

Anyone want to join me there? :)

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[museclio]

Maybe, the Christmas decorations just went up in my office.

[kmelion.livejournal.com]

::sends you a jelly donut::

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

oh, poor you.

as much as living where I do can be really hard sometimes, it is nice to not have to deal with the U.S. in December.

*sends soothing waves of Jewish cultural hegemony your way*

[sethg]

Are we having another War on Christmas? How do I fieldstrip this Uzi, again?

[sdelmonte]

I offer a dose of perspective: we live in New York. Compared with how it gets in 95% of the country, we have it good.

That said, I abhor jingly seasonal music and might be prone to smash radios and sound systems.

[cyprinella]

I was down in the cafe in our building, listening to tortured carols and realizing it was time for me to become a social hermit again. Ugh.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I'm already under one, so it's not so bad. The times I do emerge to get hit with the Xmas frenzy are just enough to make me appreciate the peace and quiet of not having any big holidays left for the year.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

Every day from now until December 20th, I will have to walk through the student center, with its blasting jingle bells nonsense, and refrain from poking holes in the Xmas air-filled blowup Santa.

[ratcreature]

At least sound systems are meant to produce sounds. One of the previous Christmas seasons I was traumatized by a squawking, moving plastic Christmas tree that had some kind of motion sensor and was placed near the door of a green grocer. While you waited in line, whenever someone entered or left the place, the thing would react to the door and move and produce these horrible screeching sounds that supposedly were some kind of carol.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Cause of the cold weather, right? :-)

I think we should take a page from their playbook and claim that there's a war on Chanukah this year and that we're fighting back.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

How bad are they? The one office I had that decorated, the decorations were very pretty and tasteful - just holly berry lights.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

*Basks*

It's not so much that - I mean, I don't live in Christmas central. It's LiveJournal and television.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

If only there was someplace to aim it.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Living in Flatbush is a good thing. Other than the (kosher) Dunkin' Donuts, there are no commercial establishments decorating at all.

If I didn't go online or watch television, I'd never know.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I'd think anyone would be annoyed by that.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

The people I feel sorry for in this case are the cafe workers.

They have to listen to that all day. Even the most ardent carol lover is going to feel tortured by the 25th.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Flatbush counts as a rock. :)

My friendslist is getting a bit overwhelming, though.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Well, any inflatable Santa is just asking for it (or snowman or giant palm tree, for that matter.)

But - yeesh.

[cyprinella]

Definitely. I suspect that the kitchen is loud enough to drown out most of it but the frontline staff have nowhere to hide.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Exactly, Michael. The cold weather.

I wonder if I'd be happier if the majority culture acknowledged that other people's holidays happen at other times of year?

[museclio]

Christmas tree and wreaths... pretty, but in my office.

[batdina.livejournal.com]

make room. I'll bring the blankets and the hot tea.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. What really baffled me was that the owner must have put that thing up, and the guy worked there himself the whole day. I mean, if in chain stores, malls and the like with such noise pollution and kitsch assaults, the employees don't have a choice but to suffer through the carols etc, because of some misguided store policy, but that green grocer shop is owned and run by a family, so nobody could have forced them to put up that thing.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Cool. kmelion has supplied jelly donuts. I can provide comfy chairs, hot coffee and chocolate and deviled egg salad sandwiches.