With memories of days gone by

[sovay]

I seem to be in something of a livejournal minority in that, so far as I am concerned, 2005 did not wholly suck. The academic side of my life was more difficult this year, in unforeseen and some as-yet unresolved ways; my personal life was also not uncomplicated, including a death in the extended family and the death of someone I had known since very early childhood. This was no good at all. On the other hand, I also had two collections and a chapbook published, gained a close friend, and translated an entire myth from Akkadian. I don't want to live through 2005 again. But it could have been a much worse year.

Last night, I had dinner with gaudior, rushthatspeaks, and lignota, and then we (minus lignota and plus boy) brought hot cider, pots for banging, and went to meet nineweaving and adrian_turtle on Cambridge Common for to wake the sun. I had a conch shell. nineweaving had mince pies and a lantern. adrian_turtle had oatmeal cookies. We feasted, poured a libation in cider, and made a racket. More importantly, we were not arrested. The sun had better come back now.

It is beginning, very faintly, to snow. I like this. May everyone have a better year.

Comments

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Surely the sun had already woken on the Winter Solstice, and had just hit the snooze button...

[sovay]

Well, rushthatspeaks and gaudior had been out of the state for the actual solstice: so this was more by way of making sure that the sun got the point. ("Hey, sun! Come back faster! This means you!")

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Well, fair enough. We don't want Alpha Centaurai muscling in on the proceedings...

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

My snooze button gives me 9 more minutes. I think that suggests the sun's snooze button should give 9 more days.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Grin. That was fun, and you were grand to see.

(Oh, and the boy says he rather likes you. This is impressive. I suspect it has much to do with the fact that you are damned likable.)

[sovay]

Definitely. We need more rituals that involve late-night hanging out.

(Wow. I'm honored. Tell the boy I rather like him, too, now that I've gotten a chance to see what he looks like while conscious.)

[janni.livejournal.com]

2005 didn't suck for me. Some very nice stuff in it, some stuff I coulda done better at--lots of awful world-events and friend-events, but it was more on an even keel than many years have been, on a personal level.

[sovay]

2005 didn't suck for me.

Good!