The Final Countdown or Xmas Time is Dumb

Today is the day, my final day of University for the foreseeable future. After 2 somewhat meaningless degrees and 6.5 years of my life, it's time to move on. This half term was one of the hardest of my entire life... not because of the work load, but because of the severe lack of motivation. Not needing these courses made it insanely hard to want to do anything for them. The only high note was the fact that I wrote a serious intellectual essay on the Weird Al film "UHF." It rocked! I have one final class tonight where I have to pitch my screenplay to a panel and then POOF, that's it! Freedom. I don't mind the environment of the place and watching movies is always fun (oh yeah, and watching girls!) but I just can't do it anymore... So much for trying to match the Van Wilder streak of 7 years +. I guess I'm just not that hardcore... I am signed up for another course in January, but I'm going to drop it and take a break. The only scary thing is, this means that I will have to face the real world now! Time to buck up and get some sort of a job, that and try to get a film off the ground. College movie!
I seriously hate how people get at Xmas time. I was out at some stores with Ryan and Andrew the other day and people were doing the craziest things in the parking lot. Instead of waiting in the queue to turn right they would go up the opposite lane and cut in front of other cars, or just drive right into traffic and cause near accidents. This one guy in a van just drove out the in lane into oncoming traffic and then cut off a ton of people who were about the hit him. The stores were all a huge mess too, it's like people have no respect to put things back where they found them... I mean the amount of times I've NOT put something back where I found it at a store wouldn't fill up one hand. It's simple respect and cleanliness. Having worked in retail over the holidays I know that people are fuckwads at this time of the year. Tensions rise on all sides. On the plus side, this will mark my second year in a row of not working retail at Xmas time! Ask me if I miss it, go on ask me! The answer is NO WAY IN HELL!
If you are wondering why I was writing Xmas instead of Christmas there is a twofold answer. The first of which is the fact that I don't believe Xmas is about Christ anymore or ever was really. Last year I did a ton of research into the holiday and learned some really interesting things about the pagan traditions that preceded Christmas, the way the holiday was celebrated until just about 100 years ago, etc. I don't think that at this point in time there is any valid argument as to why it should not be Xmas instead of Christmas. Don't give me that "spirit of the season" crap either. You should not only act charitable to your fellow man in a certain month, let alone a month that's sole purpose is to sell more useless garbage. The true spirit of the season lasts a whole year, decade, century, lifetime... whatever.