akemashite omedetou gozaimasu
So today is January 1, 2002. Why do I still feel like I should be in 1998? I guess I just want to be 21 again and an undergrad and all.
Anyway, we went to a New Year's party at![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shimmeringjemmy and meerkat299's house. We played 5x5 Boggle (we == me, Eli, Heather, Jarrett, shoebox_bird, gothfru, and el_gecko). I am not sure who won - we never actually totalled up the scores (unless someone did it after the party). Heather had a few points' lead on me most rounds and I won a few, but I had one where I beat her 26-9. I'm not sure whether that made up the difference enough - I don't think so. Either way it was close.
Then we went to the basement because most people were down there. Jason got a huge game of Munchkin going with like 8 players. I sat around and played guitar and sang with people for a few hours.fraterrisus has gotten a lot better at guitar than the last time I played and sang with him (which I think is many years ago now that I think about it). Heather brought down her violin and harp (which Laurel mostly played with), and we had three guitars going (usually me, Ben, and Tom (who I forget who he is on LJ)). Heather has cool filk books from filk singers of old, like Leslie Fish and Julia Ecklar and Heather Rose Jones and all. I played some Berryman songs off the top of my head (and forgot half of the words to Your State's Name Here), and we did a bunch of Fruvous stuff, and such.
A little before midnight we turned on the "tv" (meaning the computer with a TV card) and watched some of the Times Square stuff. Ben and I figured out guitar chords to Auld Lang Syne about a minute before the ball dropped. Everyone toasted and hugged and stuff at midnight, and then we tried playing Auld Lang Syne on the guitar, but after the first verse nobody knew any of the words so we just started making them up ("For Auld Lang Syne, my friend, for Auld Lang Syne... we'll drink a toast and make up words to Auld Lang Syne...")
I guess we hung out for another hour or two at the party, and I took a lot of cat pictures, and then we came back here. I got to watch one of the videos from Laurel and Jason's wedding. They have a shot of me swing dancing with this guy Bill, who I used to know at CMU Ballroom and who was sitting at our table. I've never actually seen what I look like dancing - I'm not that bad! It was kind of interesting to see. (I mean, I'm not as good as those people in the BDC that I always envied, but still, not too bad.)
Oh yeah, we went into the city yesterday with Laurel and Jason. That was a lot of fun! We went around Harvard Square to some stores (the poetry store was closed, but we did find a decent camera store so I got a flash), and to Porter Square where they have like half a Japanese mall (meaning it reminded me of Mitsuwa marketplaces or the buildings in Japantown in SF, except that only one floor of the building was all Japanese stores. They had restaurants, a grocery, a crafts store, a bakery, etc. They had some great sanrio stuff that I swear they didn't have at the sanrio store in NYC - I bought Hello Kitty gloves and earmuffs), so we got lunch at a place where they actually had staff who spoke Japanese, and I got katsu curry and Eli got yakisoba and we got sushi and stuff and it was great! We also went to the Japanese grocery and bought candy there. No Japanese bookstore as far as I can tell though. After that we went to Mass&Newbury so we could go to the Avenue Victor Hugo bookstore, which Eli loves. We went across the street into a cafe/bookstore and got hot chocolate and stuff and Laurel thought we had just walked into a Kevin Smith movie, but we weren't quite clever enough to be in it, or something.
Then uh we went home. Yeah. And to the party.
Today we got up late late late and now we're going to head into the city to visit Eli's uncle and stay with him tonight, and tomorrow we'll head to Vermont to visit Grammy, and then we'll go back to Amherst. Whee!
Anyway, we went to a New Year's party at
shimmeringjemmy and meerkat299's house. We played 5x5 Boggle (we == me, Eli, Heather, Jarrett, shoebox_bird, gothfru, and el_gecko). I am not sure who won - we never actually totalled up the scores (unless someone did it after the party). Heather had a few points' lead on me most rounds and I won a few, but I had one where I beat her 26-9. I'm not sure whether that made up the difference enough - I don't think so. Either way it was close. Then we went to the basement because most people were down there. Jason got a huge game of Munchkin going with like 8 players. I sat around and played guitar and sang with people for a few hours.
fraterrisus has gotten a lot better at guitar than the last time I played and sang with him (which I think is many years ago now that I think about it). Heather brought down her violin and harp (which Laurel mostly played with), and we had three guitars going (usually me, Ben, and Tom (who I forget who he is on LJ)). Heather has cool filk books from filk singers of old, like Leslie Fish and Julia Ecklar and Heather Rose Jones and all. I played some Berryman songs off the top of my head (and forgot half of the words to Your State's Name Here), and we did a bunch of Fruvous stuff, and such.A little before midnight we turned on the "tv" (meaning the computer with a TV card) and watched some of the Times Square stuff. Ben and I figured out guitar chords to Auld Lang Syne about a minute before the ball dropped. Everyone toasted and hugged and stuff at midnight, and then we tried playing Auld Lang Syne on the guitar, but after the first verse nobody knew any of the words so we just started making them up ("For Auld Lang Syne, my friend, for Auld Lang Syne... we'll drink a toast and make up words to Auld Lang Syne...")
I guess we hung out for another hour or two at the party, and I took a lot of cat pictures, and then we came back here. I got to watch one of the videos from Laurel and Jason's wedding. They have a shot of me swing dancing with this guy Bill, who I used to know at CMU Ballroom and who was sitting at our table. I've never actually seen what I look like dancing - I'm not that bad! It was kind of interesting to see. (I mean, I'm not as good as those people in the BDC that I always envied, but still, not too bad.)
Oh yeah, we went into the city yesterday with Laurel and Jason. That was a lot of fun! We went around Harvard Square to some stores (the poetry store was closed, but we did find a decent camera store so I got a flash), and to Porter Square where they have like half a Japanese mall (meaning it reminded me of Mitsuwa marketplaces or the buildings in Japantown in SF, except that only one floor of the building was all Japanese stores. They had restaurants, a grocery, a crafts store, a bakery, etc. They had some great sanrio stuff that I swear they didn't have at the sanrio store in NYC - I bought Hello Kitty gloves and earmuffs), so we got lunch at a place where they actually had staff who spoke Japanese, and I got katsu curry and Eli got yakisoba and we got sushi and stuff and it was great! We also went to the Japanese grocery and bought candy there. No Japanese bookstore as far as I can tell though. After that we went to Mass&Newbury so we could go to the Avenue Victor Hugo bookstore, which Eli loves. We went across the street into a cafe/bookstore and got hot chocolate and stuff and Laurel thought we had just walked into a Kevin Smith movie, but we weren't quite clever enough to be in it, or something.
Then uh we went home. Yeah. And to the party.
Today we got up late late late and now we're going to head into the city to visit Eli's uncle and stay with him tonight, and tomorrow we'll head to Vermont to visit Grammy, and then we'll go back to Amherst. Whee!