I find that I *adore* christmas shopping online. Easier than slogging through downtown Paramus, and getting the deliveries is almost as much fun as Christmas itself. And now that my familiy’s spread across the eastern seaboard and into the rockies, gift shipping is a lot easier too. (As opposed to… last year was it… when I bought my sister a present and forgot to send it to her for six flippin’ months.)

One of my biggest flaws in real life is that I’ll drive a point to death and then jump up and down on it some more. Because I don’t want to inflict this particular part of myself on the world at large, I find myself not posting as often as I used to, because I can’t think of anything to say that isn’t a retread of the disgust and dissillusionment I’ve felt with the world at large, and my government in particular, for the last three years.

It’s not that I don’t have hope that things will eventually get better - but I think things are going to have get a great deal *worse* before they do. Better and more impassioned voices than mine are screaming (and satirizing) daily, pointing out the godawful mess that we are in. When in my heart all I can muster is a “me to” - why pollute the web with more useless noise?