The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Cognitive dissonance

Intellectually, I know that The Holidays are not over yet, and that if anything, they're just now picking up steam, but to me, it feels like it's already over. Normally, this would be a Good Thing™ but the cognitive dissonance I'm experiencing is annoying.

Here it is, just shy of December, and it's still hot. Okay, it's not August “so hot the asphalt is boiling” hot, but it's still warm enough for natives to still be wearing tee-shirts and shorts. There are precious little decorations littering the landscape, and I've yet to see any palm trees smothered in lights.

It just doesn't feel like The Holidays (granted, when I first moved down here it didn't feel like The Holidays then either, what with trees still having leaves—green leaves at that, and no snow, and it wasn't freezing during the day). And I have to wonder why I feel so cheated.

Perhaps because it's still hot.

I think we need to get Al Gore down here—oh wait, gotta go … Bunny wants to shop for Christmas trees …

Mind the announcer

It's too bad that Emma Clark is no longer the voice of the London Underground (link via Flutterby). Some of her announcements are rather amusing.

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