Happy new year, everyone · 8:16pm Dec 31st, 2017
Well, here we are. It's new year's eve, midnight is three hours away here, and I am enjoying the premature fireworks from my new apartment with a cup of hot chocolate. It is... nice.
iisaw remarked earlier that he felt like a reveler in The Masque of the Red Death, in that while this year was full of terrible things, he personally has done quite well lately. And I sort of have the same thing. This year started with me reaching the end of a bureaucratic process that I'd been trudging through for three years. Then I finished writing a novel-length story, for the first time since I was 16. And now as the year ends I've just bought an apartment.
The mismatch is quite striking, and I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. But I suppose I should take every opportunity for happiness that I can.
Happy new year, everyone. May we all be better prepared for the next one.
These comments feel brief and unsatisfying to me. There is too much to say, and every word distracts from all the others.
I am doing well, and I am not used to that. But I worry for everyone, for both selfish and selfless reasons, because I am keenly aware that my own good fortune depends entirely on the prosperity of the society around me.
I am still exhausted, having spent all of december first moving, then cleaning up my old place, then traveling to my hometown to all the noise and crowds of a family reunion. It's been draining. But there may be something to show for it in the near future. Maybe.
Also, I have rum and coke. And that's something.
Rum and coke are a very good something!
Happy New Year, Daedalus. May yours be filled with happiness, joy, alcohol, good fortune and naked ladies!
Rum and coke. A nice combo. I've got Ny-Quil and Motrin. I think all 300 million people in the US caught the cold this year. The Strategic Mucus Reserves have never been fuller, and we'll be in single digit (F) temps until Tuesday. Boo!
Happy New Year! The eve of a new year often feels like this. As the chaos of one year comes to an end only to be replaced by the chaos of the next, there is a brief point where we can ignore the outside world, raise a glass, and savour the moment.
Pleased to hear you are well. For me personally, the year has been - better than 2016. I got some new projects started. The eclipse was pretty awesome. And I have a bottle of sparkling burgundy to see me into 2018.
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Thank you! I am now drunk and merry!
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Mucus: it's a renewable resource!
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Happy new year! *Raises glass* Those are good things you list. I hope there will be more of them in the future.
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Great to hear! Meanwhile I'm shitting bricks playing The Evil Within 2
I just remembered this classic. It deserves to be reposted.
(A day late here)
No alcohol for me (doctor's orders)... Masque does seem like an apt comparison; all the turmoil and uncertainty past with more looming on the horizon.
I am still optimistic though; I see it less "paroxysm of a world tearing itself to pieces" and more "labour pains of something new being birthed"