For the first day of the year, it's really nice today. Sunny and 63 degrees according to my thermometer. I hope it's a sign for a good year to come, even if the nice weather will be taunting me all day today while I'm at work.
My New Year's Eve was pretty good. After work I ended up going to a party in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore, Md. It was a theme party: New Years Eve around the world. Each half hour New Year's was celebrated by a change of cuisine and alcohol. Most of the people there were in there mid-twenties, but even so it was an odd mix. Most of the women were chatting about relationships, marriage and babies, while most of the guys were getting drunk and singing really loud to Neil Diamond. Kind of an odd mix of a college party and a dinner party. Since I drove, I didn't partake in the alchohol.
No word on the anthology yet. They say no news is good news, but in the world of literary submissions the opposite is more often the case. If I don't hear by the time I get home tonight, I'll send the guy a polite email gently asking if things have been delayed.
Now stop looking at the computer screen and get out there and enjoy the day.
Excelsior
7 comments:
Liar!
I watched you down that shot of Jamaican Rum like it was water!
hehe
And while it's true about the segregation of the sexes, there were some guys who crossed over into the marriage/proposal/baby territory and some gals who drank just as hard as the guys. (Not to mention that most of the guys singing Neil Diamond songs are already happily married) It was somewhat surreal. But hey, everyone had a good time, and you can't beat that.
Happy New Year!
-L
Well for starters I didn't have rum. I had one shot of yagermeister (sp?). And by partake I mean I didn't overindulge. One shot an overindulgence does not make.
So there!
Haha, good old yagermeister! I knew it well, at one time. (Ha.) I guess that half hour was Germany's. :)
What a great idea for a theme party. It sounds like a good time and that the hosts made sure it was something different.
One New Years Eve a couple years ago one of my ex-boyfriends who was in town visiting from LA brought absinthe that he'd made which a bunch of people tried a shot of and all hell broke loose from there. This year was very mellow though and we definitely didn't have any theme.
Maybe no word from the anthology IS good -- like you're definitely being considered. That's the way I like to look at late responses -- that they're still mulling! A gentle email never hurts though.
Yeah, those crazy Germans and their alcohol. The last time I got really, really drunk was on Goldschlager. Hard to resist drinking a liquor with flecks of gold in it. I don't really drink heavily anymore, except on some rare days when I get together with my dad.
I hope you're right about the anthology. No word still. I sent an email this morning, but I'm starting to look around again. It's a piece that I know works; I just need to find the right home for it.
One of these days, I'm going to get you real good and tipsy. I just think it would funny to watch. And maybe then you'll end up drunk dialing me from Israel.
hehe
-L
I didn't discover Goldschlager existed until after I quit drinking. I suppose those are two opportunities I wish I had had while I still drank: absinthe and gold-flecked liquor. Alas.
I've been tempted to order some absinthe, now that you can mail order it from the Czech republic. I didn't trust getting it on ebay.
I've heard, well, crazy things about it. Mostly good, though. Someday, maybe, when I have something really big to celebrate.
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