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I didn’t even realize today was Black Friday until I saw it on the news. Did I miss a national memo? Is my hypotryptophanemia (see yesterday’s entry) making me forget something obvious? A right-wing person I know blogged that he thought Black Friday sounded “[not] very Christmas-y to me. Sounds kind of perjorative and negative to me.” Aside from the knee-jerk “perjorative” comment (the last thing I thought was anything having to do with African Americans), I have to agree: there is nothing “Christmas-y” about waiting in line at 4AM at a Wal-Mart …. let me repeat that so it can sink in this time …. Wal…Fucking…Mart, not Nordstroms or hell, even Toys-R-Us……waiting in a line with people who are acting like ferrets on crack waiting to get into the store or (more like me) pissed off zombies who can list 100 things they’d rather be doing if you gave them 5 seconds but they are there because [insert spouse or family member] conned/threatened/blackmailed them into going. (yes Virginia, that’s a run-on sentence)

I have already alerted my family to the fact that if it can’ t be bought by a Mexican Indian (meaning indiginous Mexican, not an emigre from Bombay) it isn’t going to be given. As much as I’d like to not be a poor student once again to be somewhat more generous with presents, I won’t miss the buying frenzy that starts this weekend. There are some advantages to being here; not having to deal with “Black Friday” is one of them. I’m just waiting for someone to come out with the “Grandma Black Friday Smackdown” video from the inevitable assault-and-battery incidents that always occur today trying to get the hard-to-get toy fad or $10 DVD player.