Happy New Year (Well, Almost)

[evilhippo]

I am going to welcome the new year with a glass of coconut milk and some tamarind. (I just discovered that tamarind is good raw. Also, I am feeling quite compelled to make a bracelet out of the seeds, because they're sturdy and pretty.) I used to borrow my dad's tradition of eating pork and sauerkraut for good luck in the new year, but so far that hasn't really helped, and it never all gets eaten, so I've decided that the new year is welcomed just as well by trying something new.

I have about 20 minutes to come up with my best of/worst of 2008 lists... if I want to be punctual. Which I never am anyway, so for now...

Worst of New Year's Eve 2008:
- Working until 4:30 while my boss went to the Bull's game, got bored, came back, and still didn't let us leave.
- The ever-increasing temperature in my office
- The ever-decreasing temperature outside

Best of New Year's Eve 2008:
- Dinner at Cafe Orchid (Turkish food = mmm. Expensive desserts, but worth it!)
- The look I got from a guy on the subway after declaring (a little too loudly), that "Harry Potter's crew was an anti-terrorism unit."
- The long, involved argument we had on the train about Jedi philosophy and why treating them as a military unit would cause most of them to rebel, further dividing the order, rather than making them more efficient.

Have I mentioned how much I miss the sort of quirky conversations I used to have in college? These conversations are far too rare these days.