Feaverish

Well everybody, it’s that time of year again. Time to reflect on all the happenings, good and bad, that…uh…happened over the course of god this is boring. Okay, here goes:

Aught four began much as aught three ended. That is to say, uneventfully. I was unemployed, and spent my days watching foreign movies borrowed from the library. L was teaching, S was studying. We were poor, but happy.

With Spring came change. I got a job. Suddenly, we weren’t so poor—or so happy. My new job fit me like a sock. It was the kind of place where my blistring bilstering much intelligence and can-do attitude were nurtured and appreciated. Also, it was near a park. And everyone used Macs. These are now must-haves for me as far as employment goes.

Summer brought locusts. S went to CA to be with BD. L found us a house—in which to live. It was hot. Thanks to limited foresight, we were again poor. But happy. But mostly poor. And also sweaty. We rediscovered the joy of tending a garden. Of burying naked hands in the peaty, fecund earth. Of washing unspeakably filthy hands and calling a gardener.

Then, without warning, Summer was over. Or technically, Summer was ongoing but school was starting anyway—ask a fucking meteorologist!—it’s not right! It’s just like how fucking 12 AM comes right after 11 PM —who the fuck figured that out? “Let’s start counting at 12, then go back to 1 and work our way up to 11!” Arggghhhh.

Where was I oh yeah school. School started and the two academics in the family left their boorish lover/father figure for the world of books and hazing paddles. That was Fall I guess. Or “Autumn.” I don’t really know. It all went by kinda fast.

And now here we are, about to lower the curtain on another year. Oh crap! I forgot to talk about the election. Yeah, the election sucked. Yeah, despite my best efforts I totally got myself convinced the Democrats would win. Yeah, Wonkette totally suckered me on election night. But it’s over, and our little family is still together.

Oh, and we went to Lake Michigan for a week in the summer for L’s sister’s wedding, which was oodles of noodles of fun. And we went to Seattle to see L’s brother & co. and also some van Goghs. And L’s sister & new husband came out to see us for Thanksgiving, and it was literally the first time in years we’d had houseguests but it was really fun and we all stayed up really late playing Spades, at which I suck. I started a website, this one, and got my first pro bono web design job. And if you knew my friend P you’d realize that “pro bono” is really a pun, or play on words.

All in all it was a pretty good year. Merry Insert Holiday Here Everybody!