Happy New Years everyone, New York dropped the ball again, that's why they lost the twin towers, ha ha ha. But seriously, the year 2008, a year that should have seen Skynet running planet earth, is finally upon us. And I even like the colour.
Last New Year, I got stinking drunk on the generousity of others booze and french kissed another woman while sitting across the lap of a man I had a serious affection for. Despite that, which must seem like a wet dream come true for many, the night was an embarassing and abject failure, though I did gain from it a lesson in stark reality and brutal humility. That, and there are people you can't sleep with no matter how many drugs they've had, and isn't that reason enough.
This year was much improved, and happily less remincint of Girls Gone Wild '06
The early eve threatened much of the same, only with jail-time. The local place to be admitted a staggering number of underaged drinkers and smokers in a misplaced effort to funnel some cover money into a composing toilet, or some other hippy shit. Since I desperately hate seeing teenagers make a pisshole of the glorious gift of life and springtime youth, I lasted less than 15 minutes on the dance floor, squeezing by couples savouring their first ever public gropings and trying not to step on anyones converse. The next place on the list was being liberally supplied with polka music and had a wheelchair ramp jimmyridged especially for the festive occasion; smelled fishy too, and all hope of fun to be had there was abandoned, medical teams ordered not to resuscitate.
Just when all hope seemed lost, our neighbours came outside for a light sabre duel, and invited us in for champagne and word based boardgames, which we happily whiddled away at until 4:30 in the morning. A scrumptious success sans sycophants (10 points!)
The lesson: playing the game scattergories is much more fun on New Years Eve than playing the game drunken lesbo-pretender wants to hide the salami.
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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This comment is a bit late... but anyway I've spent the past two NYE at my friend Steve's geeky NY party (a comp sci friend from UVic). I find that spending the night with a bunch of friends playing card games, board games, DDR, Guitar Heros, or any other geeky activity is the best way to spend NYE!
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