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Auld Lang Syne
Dec. 31st, 2010 10:28 pmHappy Gregorian New Year! I have tamales!
It's been interesting reading everyone's New Year's posts all day and seeing what kind of rituals people come up to ensure that the coming year goes smoothly - not taking out the trash, eating certain foods, changing the calendars, getting drunk at midnight, whatever. So many fascinating personal/family/cultural superstitions tied up in the day. Oddly enough, although I'm usually big into rituals and magical thinking, all of my winter holiday energy gets devoted to Solstice and Christmas. My family's never been big on New Year's. When I lived with my mom we made donuts, and my dad and I usually do Dim Sum Day, but that's just because we like food and wanted something to do. We never invested a lot of deeper significance in it. So I'm not really bothered that this year is all wonky.
Anyway, even if we're supposed to make them for Christmas Eve, I would be pretty sad if I didn't get any tamales at all this year. I'm willing to be pretty flexible for my grandma's tamales.
I still don't know how I feel about 2010. Lots of good things happened! I got my academic life back on track, and got my GPA back up to something not too embarrassing. I embraced my fate as an English major. I wrote some awesome stuff. I fell in love with some new fandoms and rediscovered some old fandoms. I made awesome friends, here and in meatspace. The last few months have been rocky, and I'm still grieving for M and my grandfather, but I'm not going to lose sight of all the good that I had in my life as well. I'm optimistic about 2011. We'll see how it goes.
Here's to hoping that 2011 brings all of you health and happiness, good times and awesome porn. Happy New Year!
It's been interesting reading everyone's New Year's posts all day and seeing what kind of rituals people come up to ensure that the coming year goes smoothly - not taking out the trash, eating certain foods, changing the calendars, getting drunk at midnight, whatever. So many fascinating personal/family/cultural superstitions tied up in the day. Oddly enough, although I'm usually big into rituals and magical thinking, all of my winter holiday energy gets devoted to Solstice and Christmas. My family's never been big on New Year's. When I lived with my mom we made donuts, and my dad and I usually do Dim Sum Day, but that's just because we like food and wanted something to do. We never invested a lot of deeper significance in it. So I'm not really bothered that this year is all wonky.
Anyway, even if we're supposed to make them for Christmas Eve, I would be pretty sad if I didn't get any tamales at all this year. I'm willing to be pretty flexible for my grandma's tamales.
I still don't know how I feel about 2010. Lots of good things happened! I got my academic life back on track, and got my GPA back up to something not too embarrassing. I embraced my fate as an English major. I wrote some awesome stuff. I fell in love with some new fandoms and rediscovered some old fandoms. I made awesome friends, here and in meatspace. The last few months have been rocky, and I'm still grieving for M and my grandfather, but I'm not going to lose sight of all the good that I had in my life as well. I'm optimistic about 2011. We'll see how it goes.
Here's to hoping that 2011 brings all of you health and happiness, good times and awesome porn. Happy New Year!