bring on the dragons

[the_siobhan]

I've heard from a couple of sources now the idea that "how you start your New Year is how the rest of your year will go."

I started my New Year's at work. Which actually sounds about right. I've set myself up to have a fairly arduous path for the next couple of years.

New Year's Day, however, was a lot of fun. I invited a bunch of people to come over to the house and fed everybody massive quantities of food and drink. Then we lay across the living room and watched cheesie movies. (Barbarella! Truly a classic of the bad soft-porn sci-fi genre.)

When midnight struck I was back at work.

So if the concept holds true, next year looks to be shaping up in much the way that I expected it to. Lots of labour sandwiching pleasant interludes of fun times with good companions.

And now it is January 2nd in my time zone. So I'm officially 40 now.

Heh. Still here. Still weird.

*makes the Dude sign*

Comments

According to my calculations

[the-other-j.livejournal.com]

Because I know you are fascinated by it, I've just run some calculations in the lunar calendar that I use for calculating stelae*. If you are so inclined, you can celebrate your 12th stele on January 9. Looking further ahead, your 13th stele will fall on May 4, 2006.

Aren't you glad to know that?

Happy b-day!

* Everyone always gets confused when I use the word "birthday" to refer to an event that only occurs every 3-and-a-bit years, so I've chosen a new word.

Re: According to my calculations

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

So what is the source of the name stelae?

Re: According to my calculations

[the-other-j.livejournal.com]

A stele is a marker-stone. Stelae were used in ancient civilizations, notably Egypt and Greece, to mark boundaries of cities or between regions. They were also used in cities as commemorative markers, much the way we use cornerstones and heritage board plaques today.

The word is also used by botanists to indicate the vertical central circulatory and support structures of a plant: the stem of a flower or the trunk of a tree. In this context, the stele is the connection from the roots to the leaves and flowers.

The combination of these two definitions is an accurate summary of what these occasions represent to me: boundaries, celebrations of past achievements, connections to future growth.