In 31 hours, I will be at work for Black Friday.

I've chosen to view it as an experience. I'm not mad that I have to be there at 2 in the morning. It's going to make for a good story, hopefully.

But I really don't get it. Even on non-mass shopping days, I don't get the consumerism that drives people to Best Buy in droves. I hate that I'm one of them sometimes.

Some days I like to empty my pockets of my phone and my ipod and just sit around with a book or a notebook and just not be consumed and enslaved by things. It's a really nice feeling.

I just realized the irony of the word "consumer". Consumers are people who buy things to fill their homes: TVs, video game systems, computers, stuff, stuff, stuff, and yet this stuff that they are supposedly "consuming" ends up consuming them. Interesting.