Xmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Qwanza, Hanukka, Yule...on the way to the new year.

I have 14 minutes to Christmas Day, which really means nothing to me.
Christmas Day.
christmas day.
The 25th day in the month of December.
6 days before the end of the year.
The day doesn't mean much to an agnostic like me. It's a day off of work where obligatory gifts are exchanged.

It's now 10 minutes to midnight.

It's Christmas Day now...Looking over my sister as she sleeps in a drunken slumber. Sober night for me. Should I feel bad about my lack of reverence on this day? For being more upset about my lack of alcoholic consumption, then my faith in the birth of the christian messiah? Most people don't but I don't think they even think about the meaning, original meaning that is, surrounding the celebration of this day. I think of the beginning of things often.

How is it that we have come to be where we are? Everyone has their personal story of who they are. Some of the things that happen to us is out of out control. We become a product of our environment.

It's the morning now and whatever my tired brain was thinking last night, has left my head. It's a morning of hanging with my sister and her roommate...nothing more...just that feeling that comes around the holidays...Could that be the christmas spirit? Or just a day off of work? LOL

A Check In Of Sorts...

I haven't been around...I guess I never expected much from the blog. Most blogs that do well have some sort of thesis. Well, mine doesn't have a thesis. I always found my thesis at the editing stage of my papers. It was lost in muck or never quite there in the first place. My professors hated it. I would turn in a rough draft, sans thesis, and they would always freak as to where my thesis was. Better get a thesis.

Life is constently looking for a thesis. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , the answer given by the all knowing computer as to the meaning of life, the Universe,...everything is 42. Which is not a thesis. Would it be better if my life could be summed up in a well thought out 3 part sentence that wrapped up the sum of the next 12 pages? Let's all bow our heads in a moment of prayer that that doesn't happen.

Bringing the story to a close for a moment, I will be blogging more often so that I don't end up with a 12 page paper on events in my life and that maybe I find a thesis. If not a permanent one, at least one that can be edited ocassionally.