christmas
christmas day is the one day that most people around these parts agree that it’s okay to unwind, and for that reason i love christmas. hustle breeds hustle to the point where people feel guilty when they aren’t, even if they are justifiably exhausted. my brethren in the service industry deserve a day or two to kick back and not have to worry about a restaurant and its patrons. the month of december is a bit of a nightmare in terms of being stretched to and beyond personal limits of handling pressure, so i can’t say i enjoy the days leading up to christmas and new years so much, and instead prefer to set my sights on january. by january the world will have reset itself, and the frenzied behaviour of the masses will have curtailed in favour of a more rational kind. the need to eat in massive groups, all at once, will disappear for the better part of the year. it’s slow, and that’s boring, but it’s necessary after what always goes down in december.
