seasonal affective disorder is a fairly well-noted phenomenon in places where a religious holiday is accompanied by tremendous peer pressure (and advertising pressure) to buy merchandise. hence, at this time of year, folks are often depressed, as well. personally I don't demand that any of these poser-related sites to give us anything. very generous of them if they do, of course, for which I'm grateful. but after years of xmas give-aways, I have so many DVDs full of freebies that I decided to slack off this time, and not worry about who's giving away what to whom.