It's ONLY NOVEMBER SIXTH ALREADY.

So why are all the Christmas west coast->east coast flights either already booked or almost $1000? I've booked flights home around the Thanksgiving time frame several years in a row, and I've always been able to use a free Southwest ticket and still arrive and leave in a reasonable time frame.

I am SO SURE that George Bush is to blame for this. SO VERY SURE.

Maybe I'll just go home for my birthday instead. That will at least give me more time to Christmas shop if my family agrees to have Christmas on January 21.

Bah. I SOOOOOOO can't wait for 2009. I don't even care who gets elected, just GET HIM OUT.