A long December, and there's reason to believe: maybe this year will be better than the last.

Posted by S. , Friday, December 31, 2010 8:56 PM

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Goodbye, 2010. Finally, the hours left on the calendar are dwindling down, and a fickle, topsy-turvy, roller coaster of a year grinds to a close. At first I thought that I would be ecstatic and not a bit nostalgic or sad to see it fade into history. And then, of course, I thought back: my first year in Becket (there will be more when I'm living in Mtl again, bien sur), finally getting to say goodbye to McGill, new people, finally achieving a tiny smidgeon of financial stability for the first time... ever. New emotions, new places, and a few happy pilgrammages to the old places that remain important, and good (Maine, evidemment).

There were, as any roller coaster has, the low points, as well, sometimes accompanied by a high speed downhill slope in a rattling wooden cart . I don't feel like enumerating them. Live, learn, forward motion.
I still love amusement parks. I learned; some people, places, experiences, routines are now farther away, distance and emotionally, others are closer despite the distance. The future, after a year like this, doesn't seem nearly as scary as it did if I rewind to one revolution around the sun ago.

2009 ended and 2010 started in Montreal, with friends and yahtzee... it seems an eternity since we (attempted) to howl out Auld Lang Syne at midnight while toasting champagne in mayson jars. People change, people move, people drift. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don't. Sometimes, like now, you just have to wait and see what time reveals. Carpe diem, so they say.

Tonight will be spent in Granby dancing out the remaining minutes of another year with my favorite girls, after an afternoon on the slopes of Ski Mont Shefford (post tomorrow or the 2nd, promis!)

Alors, on danse.

Happy New Year to all.