3:17am till 4:52am

That's the time I JUST spent at Macy's and JCPenney's at Newport Centre Mall in beautiful Jersey City, NJ! A mere 5:32am now...um, yeah, I'll get to bed soon enough. I've been perversely yearning to hit an all night store during the Christmas season for YEARS and I finally did it! It was about as surreal as I expected it to be...YES!! I felt like I was in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Naturally, I took a couple pictures to document my latest freakish act. I was surprised just a tad, though...it was EMPTY. I mean, I expected it to be not packed...but I really thought more than there were would be there. My guess is that a lot more were there till like 2am, and the REAL freaks, that is, the irritating morning people, will start sauntering in about 6am. I, however, was there in the TRULY dead of night...JUST the way I wanted it. I wish I'd talked to someone -- I was hoping for some seasonal/night owl bonding with a stranger -- but the pickings were THAT slim. The most interesting people were a bizarre Harvey Fierstein-esque sales guy -- I thought he was JOKING with his voice at first, but NO! -- and a delightfully sardonic sales girl who stated out loud that she was about to shoot herself in the head, then proceeded to bitch about how "nasty" NJ people are, giving as an example how "they just throw their McDonalds stuff out the car window." I wanted to applaud her, but settled for making sure she saw me laughing, thus letting her know I wildly approved of her 4am SASS. Oh, and I didn't buy a damn thing; I really didn't NEED to. I went more for the experience. If I saw something suitable for someone, I would've, but I pretty much have all my gifts...I finished THAT up EARLIER tonight...er, last night? It's starting to blend...I mean, it's 5:52am now. The final icing on the cake was proceeding to go through FOUR red lights and one stop sign on the way home. I have fucking things to do...these lights are pointless at five in the EVENING; I certainly wasn't waiting at them when I was the only car in sight. So EVERY move I made was devoid-of-slow-moving-humans...JOY to the world indeed! I even screamed MERRY CHRISTMAS out loud once I got to my car...and why not? Well, it's 6:07am...and to ALL a good night!