[Jane Sherwood]

I should be happy that classes are over...but oh dear god am I bored! And my roommate is going out less and less, so the little bit of privacy I had is diminishing, not to mention the fact that her boyfriend(?) just spent about three hours in here...

I mean, I can only ignore my surrounding so much...

[barend]

barend - put some lights up, and wear mittens. It sucks to be alone or lonely at Christmas. Or New Years. Or Valentines Day. It's just another opportunity for people who have people to make everyone else feel bad. Only christmas is better, because its sparkley.

yeah... mittens and lights... that'll make the near 100degree days more bareable!!!

i'll probably spend christmas morning with my father, christmas lunch with my mother, (or vice versa), and spend the rest of the night doing my flawless impersonation of the fat guy from 'the meaning of life' as i'll be @#$%ing full...

New Years is a hoot... i'm usually so full of intoxicating substances that i don't seem to mind having no one to plant a NYK on... on the years i have a girlfriend then there's two of us so full of intoxicating substances we don't know what's going on.

New years is awsome.

Valentines Day... well that one just sucks. i've been a bit busy over the last few years and have'nt really had a good three months spare to devote entirley to the phsychosocial mindgame tango we call 'getting someone to go out with you'... so sadly i've spent the last couple of years single taking some solace in one night stands that on occasion resulted in a lift home the next morning (sometimes stopping at McDonalds on the way )... but as for the getting someone flowers and candy and romantic guestures, it's nice to know that not being in a postion to make a sociocomercially pressured shallow geusture can still somehow make you feel so damn hollow for about 16 hours...

[Zatoichi]

What's your major, Z? (Just wondering because the only majors I know of that have usually projects instead of exams are Visual Arts, various Engineering, and Architecture.)

And AMEN, DITTO, and SAME HERE to all the complaints for finals.

I'm just going to a community college for the time being. Since they don't have a major that I want, I'm just in Individual Studies for the time being. When I transfer, I want to do an acting/writing/english major type deal.

[Mirithorn]

Complaint: I swallowed a pill last night and now it's lodged in my throat. My father offered various suggestions such as "Eat a bagel" (the bagel got stuck too) and "drink this cup of water really really fast". And then he tried "It's not really there." A few seconds later I proved my point quite well, I think, that my throat was trying to push it out by vomiting all over the kitchen floor.

[Dorothy]

barend - Isn't restoring your christmas spirit worth a little discomfort? I'd mail you some snow, but that never seems to work out as well as you would hope.

New Years is ok, I don't really go out so it doesn't hold as much charm for me. I wouldn't mind being single as much around Christmas-time-time if it weren't for my family. I get the distinct feeling that they think that I'm a failure because I haven't gotten married. Oh well. Valentines day is only good after valentines day, because you can get all of the candy and junk cheap, and then eat the candy and burn the junk. In your yard. Or your furnace. Oh, and rescue the flowers that were not good enough for some guy to give his girl (or girl/guy) and put them on your table. Or couch, which really doesn't work as well.

McDonalds could be the finest breakfast foods ever.

Mirithorn - more water.

[Mirithorn]

They could be, yes, in the same way that the universe could have been created a second ago.

I don't like New Years much. Everyone seems to get overly excited, but unless I get to go to my cousin's house and play with his guinea pig, it's never seemed very exciting to me.

You stay up all night, get tired, say "Yay" in between yawns and go to sleep.

[Slade]

I just realized that for the first time in my life I'll have a proper St. Valentine's Day... My new year's days are spent at my house checking out my Christmas presents, usually.

Barend: Keep your chin up and your eyes open. Maybe if you deliberately stop playing the games the women will think that you're a rebel and you'll become more desireable because they think you're playing it when you're not. Or something... I managed to skip all of that bullshit out of luck; I dunno what to tell you.

[Emu]

Yeah, I don't really do much on New Years either, my most memorable one was when I spent most of the night on the living room couch reading Chekhov stories, listening to the radio, and eating a jarful of olives.

[Chyld]

Or maybe it was mouthwash...

Yes, good old Jack Daniels mouthwash...

While we're playing this game:
Christmas: Morning are spent with us the children shredding wrapping paper, afternoons are spent with mum's side of the family at someones house, making with the food. Then more wrapping paper shredding (lots more), then sleep.
New Years: Usually pissed in someones living room, although last year I had to go on a pub crawl with my brother, as everybody else had plans. It was suprisingly fun, mind, and I might well do it again this year.
Valentines Day: Spent bitching about being single. Nothing more.

[WalkingCarpet]

Slade's right. The game sucks. If it happens it happens. If not, fuck it. There's plenty of other things about to keep yourself occupied until it does.

Valentine's Day is about proving that you can remember to spend a few quid/bucks/rubes/groats on a specific date in order to make someone else happy enough that they might do certain things in the bedroom that they normally wouldn't. In fact, its probably the most shallow and superficial day of the calendar, and certainly the least romantic.

Example: think of the kudos you'd get for whisking your partner off to Paris for the weekend on valentine's day. Then compare it to how much you'd get if you did it for her birthday, or just a random day for no reason other than you love her, and wanted to show her how special she is. Any takers?

[Mirithorn]

I usually make valentines for everyone in my family and everyone who isn't in my family but hasn't done anything in particular to get on my nerves. Actually, I just like making valentines.

[Spoon Poetic]

I'd actually prefer "being whisked off to Paris" (or any other special something) on some random day other than Valentine's Day. It'd be more special to me, to know that someone would do something just to show me "how special I am," rather than because it's Valentine's Day and society says that you gotta do something out of the ordinary.

[Dorothy]

I'm not really that big on huge expensive gestures. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't turn down a big gift, but small kindesses-es that show that the other person is thinking about you mean a lot.

[Spoon Poetic]

Ditto. Expensive things make me nervous. I was just using Walking Carpet's example.

Complaint: I've no idea what to get anyone for Christmas except for my brother (can't go wrong with an elementary school kid and Legos).

[Chyld]

Complaint: I won't have enough money to get anyone anything for Christmas at this rate.