Closing Statements
Dec. 31st, 2006 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielOne of the bosses at the company has a motivational postcard in his office. It says, "Wennze Mittwoch überlebt hast... isses Donnerstag" which means "When you survived Wednesday... it's Thursday."
That's a bit what this day feels like.
As I mentioned a while ago, my brain still has that strange fixed idea that if only I get to the end of the year, all will be well again. The workload will be gone, I will have money for the stuff I want and time to do the stuff I want, and all the things that went wrong this year will surely go right. As if the purely calendary back-setting of the date would reset the rest of the world, or of life.
The fact of the matter is that the new year will be no less stressful than this one was. Right from the beginning. I'll have to go back to work on January 2nd, I'll have to prepare the next presentations and term papers, I'll eventually have to face the fact that I'll have to do my exam at some point (though, hopefully, not this coming year). And then there's the big question of The House.
In other words, there's no guarantee that the new year will be that much better than, or even all that different from, the old. Perhaps it will be. Perhaps it won't. At any rate, when you survived 2006 ... it's 2007. Nothing more.
But nothing less, either.
My best New Year's party ever, as I like to recount, was the one that went from 2002 into 2003. Actually, I didn't have anything planned till the 29th of December or so, when Katha asked me in chat whether I'd like to go and visit Elbereth, Cye and Enux up in the Wild South for Silvester. (I am obviously using their nicknames from chat, just in case anyone wondered about the weird names.) I said yes, so early on the 31st, we got into my racing guinea-pig (that is, my car) and drove to Freiburg/Breisgau (as opposed to Freiburg in Switzerland for those unfamiliar with European geography). We cooked together (Ratatouille and roasted beef in a salt crust (which remained after, solid and salty, and was named Mount Doom) and blew up enormous amounts of fireworks (very bad from an environmental point of view, I know, but SO MUCH FUN). Then we did the traditional lead-pouring thing and talked and had some wine, and then it was 2 am and Cye suggested playing a round of DSA (which is kind of like D&D, but with a fixed world). So we sat till 6 am and created our characters, and then we played a beginners' adventure till 10 am when the adventure was through and went to bed and had breakfast while the sun was setting outside. Katha and I stayed for a few days more, time enough to explore the castle and watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the umpteenth time and The Emperor's New Groove. Cye had returned home to Lörrach, and we drove up there to visit him on the 3rd and took a wrong turn and suddenly found ourselves in France (but we found Lörrach later on). We celebrated Tolkien's eleventy-first birthday anniversary together, and then we returned home. And that was that. I guess it doesn't sound all that great, but it was if you were there. Perhaps it makes more sense when you know that all New Year parties before that were either spent with my parents and neighbours, or loyally boring myself to death at the Dôjô party?
And the run-on sentences are intentional for stylistic reasons.
Now 2003 was in general the best year of my life so far. I have no idea whether that has to do with the New Year party, but if it does, 2007 can only be excellent, for we are going to have an in-character Traïdis* party. A year that begins with LARP cannot be a bad year!
I hope.
I somehow have woken up with the desire to have a Calendar Girls-style calendar with nekkid Finwëans
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Date: 2006-12-31 02:51 pm (UTC)Vorlagen
Date: 2007-01-01 12:45 pm (UTC)Re: Vorlagen
Date: 2007-01-01 03:48 pm (UTC)(Frohes neues Jahr!)
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Date: 2007-01-01 04:12 pm (UTC)Dir auch ein gutes!
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Date: 2007-01-01 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: Vorlagen
Date: 2007-01-01 04:22 pm (UTC)Und jetzt malen wir zwei, die ..yyy... tun, der eine ist rothaarig und der andere blonttt. Und haben beide keinen Bart.
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Date: 2007-01-01 04:39 pm (UTC)Re: Vorlagen
Date: 2007-01-01 05:13 pm (UTC)Er erzählte, er habe eine Frau gefragt: "Gefällt dir mein Bart nicht?", als sie ihn komisch ansah.
Sie antwortete (wohl wie "aus der Pistole geschossen"): "Lass das B weg, und du hast es!"
Ben war erschüttert. Grinsel