Christmas Vacation

The thing I miss most about Christmas, isn't the insane, mad dash to open presents, the food, or time spent with family, but the option to be the laziest son of a bitch on the planet for weeks.

Yes, some, get time off if they're in school or have forty hour full time jobs, but us simple folk who work more than one part time job, get the shit end of the stick. Just the other day I was trapped within the gates of hell (a bookstore) on Christmas eve. The nerve that people are even scrambling last minute to buy some sort of lackluster present from a bookstore is beyond me, but they couldn't even have the decency to show some respect and honor to those trapped within the confined dust trap.

Thankfully, Christmas allowed me to unwind, forgetting all the bullshit I have put up with over the past couple months. I wasn't even phased that I spend Christmas alone. I spent the day more envious than happy.

There was the occasional Skype conversation with family from the Midwest, where I preceded to stay perky and not act like I was stoned out of my mind. (The only way I can deal with family is excessive drinking or drugs.)

Getting stoned relieved some of my tension but not all. The calm and peace I got from that two hour high was like heaven. I literally took a few hits, lied back while the sun peaked out behind my half closed blinds and rubbed my head/face across the pillowy comforter for hours. It was like it's own Christmas present to me.

For months on end, I have been killing myself to please friends. One in particular. Not only have I had to muster up some drive and determination, but also stay up to date within the film community, read and write every day, work sixty hours a week, apply for new jobs, find an internship but I've also had to deal with running into Kimber any place I go.

So those of you who think you have it rough working a full time job while getting up with some sort of routine and your head on straight. I say Merry fucking Christmas and Feliz Navidad. Sometimes you don't know how good you have it, till it's gone.