Embracing your inner Grinch
Embracing your inner Grinch
Embracing your inner Grinch#1
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:36pm
Holidays suck.
There. I said it.
The stores are too crowded, the slow drivers take over the roads, and everybody pretends that screaming snotty kids are cute.
Then there are the parties where people you already can't stand get too drunk and suddenly you hate them even more.
I spend too much money on too many gifts that no one really wants.
And I'm not even gonna get started on the seasonal WAR ON CHRISTMAS crap we have to put up with from intolerant douche bags. I thought this was supposed to be the season good will towards all men, not the season of good will only towards people who are the same as me.
So, here is this thread. It is a safe place where we can bitch, complain, and generally bash the holiday season with no judgements and impunity from holly-jolly tools who think we're just cranky.
Embracing your inner Grinch#2
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:41pm
Preach, tazber. I basically agree with every word you wrote.
Here's my personal addition: As a professor, the lead-up to the holidays are the worst. Yesterday, about half the students in my two classes were absent. The students who bothered to show up were checked out. And when they come back from Thanksgiving break, it'll be autopilot for the three weeks before the semester ends and they go home for Christmas.
Embracing your inner Grinch#3
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:43pm
^^ What AC said ^^
Embracing your inner Grinch#4
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:43pm
Oh yea. And because it's near the end of the semester no one ends up being prepared for the final assignments and somehow it's your (the professor's) fault!
Embracing your inner Grinch#5
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:46pm^ You got it! I spend a significant part of my holiday break deleting angry emails from students who can't comprehend their Ds and Fs.
Embracing your inner Grinch#6
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:46pmThrow in Sandy and it's aftermath, and this semester is a shambles.
Joined: 12/31/69
Embracing your inner Grinch#7
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:48pm
There are like 10 people off this week at work. Those of us who are here are cranky as hell.
Plus, Turkey makes my cat gassy.
Embracing your inner Grinch#8
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:52pm
Listen, I hated having to write papers and study over the holidays as much as anyone, but it's higher education folks.
Grow up!!
And who do your students think has to grade all those assignments and tabulate final scores over their holiday?
And if, god forbid, final grades are late all hell breaks lose.
I'm so feeling you guys.
Embracing your inner Grinch#9
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:55pmI sort of enjoy grading, or as I call it: "Deet's Turn."
Embracing your inner Grinch#10
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:57pm
Thanks for the sympathy, taz! You pretty much hit the nail on the head--although grading often makes a good excuse when you want some alone time during a holiday weekend spent with family!
My students have a paper draft due the day we get back from break next week--I'd guarantee about half will just not do it.
Embracing your inner Grinch#11
Posted: 11/20/12 at 1:58pm
That's why we go away for Christmas...a cruise this year.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Embracing your inner Grinch#12
Posted: 11/20/12 at 2:01pmYeah working up at 30 rock this time of year makes me want Santa to bring me an assault rifle and belltower for Christmas
Embracing your inner Grinch#13
Posted: 11/21/12 at 6:41am
And how much do I hate people who think that because I dislike the holidays I'm not thankful?
I'm very thankful for all I have especially when so many have so much less. But you know what? I don't need one day a year to celebrate that.
I acknowledge it every day. Whether giving charity, volunteering, or making sure the homeless guy who sleeps on the stoop across from my building has a bagged lunch placed at his feet every morning before I leave for work and a blanket in the winter.
So to the douche who tried to lecture me in Starbucks: spend less time worrying about my holiday cheer and more time putting your money where you mouth is.
Embracing your inner Grinch#14
Posted: 11/21/12 at 6:58amMy inner Grinch is mostly related to holiday movies and music. So many of them are beyond insipid.
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Embracing your inner Grinch#15
Posted: 11/21/12 at 7:26amI hate shopping more than anything. my mother did not drive, so I had to drive her around to all the malls for her holiday gift shopping. She died earlier this year, and my brother and I agreed not to exchange gifts - just to have dinner together. NO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FOR ME THIS YEAR!!!
Embracing your inner Grinch#16
Posted: 11/21/12 at 7:58amI should add that some of my Grinchiness around ALL holidays is attributable to stupid facebook postings. OK, I get it, you're patriotic...you don't need to post 15 pictures of flags on Veteran's Day...I get it.
Embracing your inner Grinch#17
Posted: 11/21/12 at 8:26am
My high school is directly near the major shopping center in the area. I don't know who came up with the great idea of having a mall near a high school but around the holidays, it became impossible for people, staff or student, bus or car, to get in and out at a desirable time because of holiday shoppers. During the 'last day' before the breaks, the district agreed to let the high school and therefore the entire district out an hour early, simply because of the traffic concerns (HS was also a block away from a major commercial strip). So no matter what creed or level of faith or whether or ideology you are impacted in the materialism of the holiday, you were always negatively impacted if you went to my HS.
And the next gateway to Grimch for me is: seasonal holiday retail. The experience scars me. Even the Christmas playlist that played on a loop during my shifts still gives me PTSD.
EDIT: Seriously, screw the iPad and its autocorrect
Updated On: 11/21/12 at 08:26 AM
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Embracing your inner Grinch#18
Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:02am
For me, it's the let down of expectations...
I would love to buy everyone a present, but then it turns into 'well, if I buy sew and sew a gift, then I have to get one for this person as well as that person' so I just don't bother.
Joe, your gassy cat line had me laughing.
Joined: 12/31/69
Embracing your inner Grinch#19
Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:08amOh Good. I'll bring it over and his audible farts will REALLY crack you up.
Embracing your inner Grinch#20
Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:18am
Generally, I do like the holidays, but I will agree with most of what has been said here. I hate shopping this time of year because everyone is out. I can't even enjoy just doing normal errands because people who don't go shopping the rest of the year are out. I'm also getting pissed off with how Black Friday is becoming. I find it tacky and rude to employees to open the stores on Thanksgiving night to make sales. I thought 10pm was bad last year, but at least by then most guests probably went home already. 8pm is ridiculous though.
Ditto to the facebook postings. You don't need to guilt trip me into caring about a holiday by telling me to repost or I have no soul or something. It's a form of bullying in a way. It might be indirect, but telling me I'm a bad person, it is.
Family also gets on my nerve to an extent. It's always someone doesn't like someone else and they're not coming for that reason. Or someone gets invited, declines, and then decides to play the victim of neglect card the day after. Sorry, you said no, so we're not going to keep begging because you can make your own decisions.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
Embracing your inner Grinch#21
Posted: 11/21/12 at 11:07am
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
Embracing your inner Grinch#22
Posted: 11/21/12 at 11:11am
Embracing your inner Grinch#23
Posted: 11/21/12 at 11:12am
I LOVE GRUMPY CAT
just saying...
Embracing your inner Grinch#24
Posted: 11/21/12 at 7:08pmThe one thing I cannot stand about the holidays is that stupid fncking do you hear what I hear song.
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