OK, 2006. An arbitrary delimitation is about to be celebrated, as it does every 365-6 days. I live in the first country in the world where this non-milestone is marked, which is as sigificant as Samoa being the last country. Do you know that people come from all over the world to New Zealand - and to Gisborne in particular - to see first light on a new year? I get why they do it, but I still think it's goofy.
Lots of stuff happened politically that was very interesting and frightening, both at home and abroad. But I'm not going to talk about that sort of shit at all, because this has always been like most people's blogs: it's all about my own self-obsession, and fuck the bigger picture. Let's just say that I am very worried about the future of my own country and the whole world right now, but remain optimistic (perhaps naively so) that people will not allow the bullshit to go on indefinitely. At least in New Zealand politics don't kill many people... Yet.
How to summarize the year from a personal standpoint? It was not a Momentous Year in either good or bad ways. I spent too much time at my job working really hard, but in 2005 there was more work and it was harder.
I think the best thing I can say about 2006 is that at the end of the year, I feel like I am a better man than I was at the start of the year. Just being able to say "man" in a context other than "yeah man" is a thing in itself; in 2005 I thought of myself as still a boy.
It was a year when I put more serious work into my writing than I ever have before; where I dated extensively but did not fall into a hopeless crush; when I overcame (at least for the moment) at least five personal defects that had been bugging me; I'm pretty sure I was nicer to my friends and family than I have been previously but that's not for me to judge - so if I was a cock to you this year, let me know and maybe I'll do better in future. Or if you prefer you could not let me know, sit and brood on it, and then take your heinous revenge, by which time I will be like Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In America trying to work out why the fuck Charles Bronson has such a hard-on for him. Just shove your harmonica in my mouth while I lay dying - I still won't understand what grieves you, but I will appreciate going out on a reference to a great movie. (Incidentally, "harmonica" is not a euphenism; watch the fucking movie.)
I met some wonderful people this year in all sorts of capacities. If I met you this year, my life is probably better for it so thank you.
All in all this year was not amazing, but I feel like it was necessary. I have big plans for 2007.
OK, I've just peered over last year's end-of-year post. Hm, looks like I really enjoyed 2005. "Getting someone so stoned he thought he saw Satan" is pretty hard to beat. The closest I can come to that is that I got so incredibly drunk at Bodega on my birthday I could not function for the entireity of the next day, then still managed to make it to a party the next night while incredibly hungover, ran into a woman I had met at the pub the night before, and still managed to be charming enough to impress her. On the other hand that might say more about her than it does about me.
Enough self-indulgent rambling. Peace, I'm gone. Fnord!
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We can? Cool.
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