~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

been desperately hoping this flu would clear up before tonight but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen...angry + shivering.

If anyone needs me today, I'll be in my room watching Dance Academy and eating tangerines.

My NYE plans include a supper of enchiladas filled mostly with leftover turkey, a fire in the fireplace, looking at all the past year's photos with my wife, then watching an Astaire-Rogers dvd, eating popcorn and drinking rum drinks. This is Big Fun for Those Past Fifty.

i'm barely past 30 and that sounds like a pretty good night to me

tbqh, I've always been a fan of stay-at-home NYE and my personality is quite the inverse of a raver's. See my post to the thread about when you discovered you were well on the way to becoming a crotchety old person.

i might visit some ppl nearby for a couple of hours or i might watch the new godard flick

not rly feeling the end of 2k11 or beginning of 2k12 to be all that rly i mean both years are pretty similar numerically

otm, chinese new year gives you more to work with

Because a year measures one cycle around the sun, you can arbitrarily pick any day in that cycle to mark the end/start of a solar year and it would make about as much sense as any other day. When this was first pointed out to me in high school, New Year's Day lost much of its lustre for me.

Wasn't it originally picked to be the winter solstice, so that the earth was being "reborn" as the new year began? Respect our pagan history, people!

Except NYD is not the solstice, innit?

this is seriously the first Saturday in over a month where I have nowhere to be this afternoon or evening. This rules.

I have my pick of New Years nightspots...think ima karaoke it up at my friend's bar, and say goodbye to one of teh quickest and weirdest years in recent memory (for me)

Except NYD is not the solstice, innit?

Time drift (no leap year for quite a while). Or maybe they just weren't good at it.