this new year and an old year
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phineasjonesverdict: new year's eve was fun. as well as the part of new year's day for which i have been awake so far. rach and i went out for ethiopian food with claire and lauren and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
camillafarfalla. the food was yummyummy and it was nice to see those girls again - especially when they both seemed so happy. lovely. we left them to their own reveling after dinner and went over to camilla's house. we exchanged christmas presents. indeed, camilla and i gave each other the same h/d sticker. haha. she also gave me a bar of swedish 'elf soap.' hmm. so i can smell like the pretty too? and a calendar she made with photographs of italy and spain. as i hung it in my kitchen this morning i thought, this is gorgeous. i think she should publish this calendar. yes. and then we played with her roommies and friends. drank various things and danced around like silly people. and possibly posted to lj in drunkenness. oops. heh. it was a really nice night of low-key fun. and i don't appear to have a hang over of any sort today. go water!
this has got me thinking about my favorite new years ever. it was four years ago. in one night, i went from mopey and depressed to optimistic and pleasantly happy. sounds good, doesn't it?
i was mopey and depressed because i was working at a crappy job that bored me stupid. i had just failed once again to apply to grad school when i should have. i was living at my parents house after having lived in northampton for some time after graduating. i was even singing in a crappy choir.
on new year's eve, riki - one of my best friends from college who had moved back to heidelberg to go to grad school - was visiting. she showed up at the office where i worked around lunch time and i took an extended break and loved talking to her. we had some trouble working out our plans for the night. we eventually decided to just start with the first night grand procession and go from there. we met at the common, bought hot soy beverages at curious liquids (so sad that place is gone) and watched the parade. which was incredibly fun, probably mostly because we were just so happy to be there and be together again.
when the parade was over, we went to riki's old apartment in jp. her old roommate (and monkey's girlfriend at the time), jerry, was cooking dinner. we had more fun just hanging around in the kitchen, eating drinking and laughing. riki and i then headed over to the hynes convention center where there was a cape verdean band playing. i had hoped for some real cape verdean dancing. there wasn't much, but riki and i danced around and had fun anyway. and i ran into samantha - and old friend from high school.
we got on the subway then to head toward my friend terry's house in inman square. terry and i dated for a few months when we were 15. silliness, really. but then... there had always been this weird feeling left for me. like we were unresolved. and i was still attracted to him, so was headed to his party when i hadn't seen him in over a year. i ran into a person i worked with on the train.
we had to walk and run and catch a bus and ask people where terry's street was, but we managed to make it to his house by 4 minutes before midnight. we got our champagne right away and danced around some more to 1999 and met terry's friends who were nice... some of the guys perhaps a little too attentive, but nice. it was great to see terry. and see his girlfriend. she didn't stop him from drunkenly spilling to riki that he thought there had always been a 'thing' between him and me. and it was all unresolved. this was good to hear later - validating - as riki and i were walking to the club where we would meet up with jerry.
the club was more fun. i ran into someone i had worked with in noho and then one of my gayboy friends from high school. we eventually found jerry too. drunken jerry told us of all the gay boys she had kissed at midnight and somehow this led to her kissing riki and then me. it was a really good kiss. and a major ego boost when she exclaimed as much. and riki got pouty because there had been no exclaiming about her kiss.
when we left the club we took taxis back to jerry's apartment. riki and i shared a futon and we stayed up past 4 talking. about life and love and everything and reconnecting with her was probably the best thing of all about the holiday.
the next 'day' (i think we got up around 3) we found $20 on the ground as we were on our way to pick up some dinner. we went to see shakespeare in love and at the theater ran into college friends we hadn't seen in years - i had no idea they were even living in the area. we had drinks with them afterward and i discovered that one of them was auditioning for the same choir i was. (we both got in).
i stayed at jerry's for another day. when i next saw judy i agreed that i would love to live in an apartment in that area with her. )we moved into our place in march.) days after new years, i left to join my college choir for an amazing trip to costa rica. rachael and i got together. i applied to grad school that year. things just... all turned around after that. i don't know quite what it was. but i keep thinking there was something special about a night where i connected with so many people i hadn't seen for months or years. and everything felt better and felt possible after that.
i think later i'll upload some pics of last night. heheh.
camillafarfalla. the food was yummyummy and it was nice to see those girls again - especially when they both seemed so happy. lovely. we left them to their own reveling after dinner and went over to camilla's house. we exchanged christmas presents. indeed, camilla and i gave each other the same h/d sticker. haha. she also gave me a bar of swedish 'elf soap.' hmm. so i can smell like the pretty too? and a calendar she made with photographs of italy and spain. as i hung it in my kitchen this morning i thought, this is gorgeous. i think she should publish this calendar. yes. and then we played with her roommies and friends. drank various things and danced around like silly people. and possibly posted to lj in drunkenness. oops. heh. it was a really nice night of low-key fun. and i don't appear to have a hang over of any sort today. go water!this has got me thinking about my favorite new years ever. it was four years ago. in one night, i went from mopey and depressed to optimistic and pleasantly happy. sounds good, doesn't it?
i was mopey and depressed because i was working at a crappy job that bored me stupid. i had just failed once again to apply to grad school when i should have. i was living at my parents house after having lived in northampton for some time after graduating. i was even singing in a crappy choir.
on new year's eve, riki - one of my best friends from college who had moved back to heidelberg to go to grad school - was visiting. she showed up at the office where i worked around lunch time and i took an extended break and loved talking to her. we had some trouble working out our plans for the night. we eventually decided to just start with the first night grand procession and go from there. we met at the common, bought hot soy beverages at curious liquids (so sad that place is gone) and watched the parade. which was incredibly fun, probably mostly because we were just so happy to be there and be together again.
when the parade was over, we went to riki's old apartment in jp. her old roommate (and monkey's girlfriend at the time), jerry, was cooking dinner. we had more fun just hanging around in the kitchen, eating drinking and laughing. riki and i then headed over to the hynes convention center where there was a cape verdean band playing. i had hoped for some real cape verdean dancing. there wasn't much, but riki and i danced around and had fun anyway. and i ran into samantha - and old friend from high school.
we got on the subway then to head toward my friend terry's house in inman square. terry and i dated for a few months when we were 15. silliness, really. but then... there had always been this weird feeling left for me. like we were unresolved. and i was still attracted to him, so was headed to his party when i hadn't seen him in over a year. i ran into a person i worked with on the train.
we had to walk and run and catch a bus and ask people where terry's street was, but we managed to make it to his house by 4 minutes before midnight. we got our champagne right away and danced around some more to 1999 and met terry's friends who were nice... some of the guys perhaps a little too attentive, but nice. it was great to see terry. and see his girlfriend. she didn't stop him from drunkenly spilling to riki that he thought there had always been a 'thing' between him and me. and it was all unresolved. this was good to hear later - validating - as riki and i were walking to the club where we would meet up with jerry.
the club was more fun. i ran into someone i had worked with in noho and then one of my gayboy friends from high school. we eventually found jerry too. drunken jerry told us of all the gay boys she had kissed at midnight and somehow this led to her kissing riki and then me. it was a really good kiss. and a major ego boost when she exclaimed as much. and riki got pouty because there had been no exclaiming about her kiss.
when we left the club we took taxis back to jerry's apartment. riki and i shared a futon and we stayed up past 4 talking. about life and love and everything and reconnecting with her was probably the best thing of all about the holiday.
the next 'day' (i think we got up around 3) we found $20 on the ground as we were on our way to pick up some dinner. we went to see shakespeare in love and at the theater ran into college friends we hadn't seen in years - i had no idea they were even living in the area. we had drinks with them afterward and i discovered that one of them was auditioning for the same choir i was. (we both got in).
i stayed at jerry's for another day. when i next saw judy i agreed that i would love to live in an apartment in that area with her. )we moved into our place in march.) days after new years, i left to join my college choir for an amazing trip to costa rica. rachael and i got together. i applied to grad school that year. things just... all turned around after that. i don't know quite what it was. but i keep thinking there was something special about a night where i connected with so many people i hadn't seen for months or years. and everything felt better and felt possible after that.
i think later i'll upload some pics of last night. heheh.
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wow!
Date: 2003-01-01 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: wow!
Date: 2003-01-01 08:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-01 06:57 pm (UTC):::pets you:::
am glad that you have such fun memories -- turning points are always fun to look back on.
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Date: 2003-01-01 08:53 pm (UTC)i am so digging that icon.
you just may get some more life stories. this time of year always gets me thinking. o, la nostalgie!
::kiss::
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Date: 2003-01-01 09:02 pm (UTC)thanks! it's making me want aragorn/eowyn fic. i know that's het, but i can't help it. i don't suppose you know of any, do you? :::bats eyes in a hopeful fashion:::
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Date: 2003-01-01 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-01 09:28 pm (UTC)