I will be the first to admit that I’m a complete sucker for Christmas – it’s such a wholesome, rosy-cheeked time of year that can infect even the most sarcastic blogger with its cheeriness. It’s all twinkly lights and hot chocolate and snow and wonderfulness. See, it’s already making me feel all warm and cozy inside.

That being said, Christmas should get a month and no longer. Some grumpy folk even argue that a month is already too much yuletide for their liking. So seeing as it’s November 24, exactly one month before Christmas Eve, all the festive decorations and happiness should just be going up now – which makes me wonder why there have been little signs of Christmas popping up all over campus since Halloween. That’s why I’m going to pull a Grinch and present you with a List of Christmas Stuff on Campus That’s Awesome But Arrived Too Early and is Already Trite.

1.) The Christmas Starbucks Cups
I already mentioned in a previous post that the most wonderful day of my entire year is the day that Starbucks whips out those red cups with the little snowflakes all over them. Just ask AbstractNoun, who completely understood what was going on when we walked into Starbucks about a month ago and I started shrieking, “Cups! Cups!” Yes, I said a month ago, which means that by the time February rolls around I just may start to resent the cups, which would be completely devastating.

2.) Douglas’s Bizarrely Intense Window Display
Really, is it necessary to plop not one, but two singing Santas in your window display in October? It wasn’t even cold enough for Uggs yet when a man in an elf suit attacked me with “15% off all Clinique products” candy canes.

3.) The Lights on Locust
Every year around Christmas, the trees on Locust Walk get strung with beautiful star-shaped lights (though this year they are orb-shaped – but still holiday spirity), marking my second favorite day of the year after #1 on this list. Actually, even I can’t find something snarky to say about these lights. They just make everyone so happy.

So, uh, Merry Christmas?