Remember when everyone used to decorate their college dorm rooms with Christmas lights and it was cool and hippie? Today I put up the Christmas lights on our sixth floor balcony, I mean our fire escape overlooking Chinatown. I’m not a hardcore or for that matter even vaguely enthusiastic patron about holiday decorating (although I have a secret stash of Christmas ornaments… Christmas ornaments are the neatest doodads ever after wind-up toys) but putting up lights on the balcony is preeetty! It’s actually not really for the holiday season that I put the lights up, since I’m going to keep the lights up all year round. I just put them up today because I thought it would be a nice picture to take with the slate sky in the background.