2004 in 12 Sentences

[hummingwolf]

Everybody else is doing it. Baa! Anyway, this is the one where you take the first sentence of your first post in each month of 2004 and make a brand-new post consisting of those sentences. Here goes:

In spite of vague thoughts of going out and looking for trouble, I rang in the new year in moderate fashion, sitting here at the computer and chatting with friends while the TV showed a ball dropping in New York. When the founders of Little Elves Preschool in Virginia named their new school, they never dreamed that one day the students would gather in a ring, playing wild, unearthly music that would make the teacher dance until she dropped dead from exhaustion. Last week I realized that all this walking to & from the library was wearing me out, so I decided to take a day off, just to rest at home and do nothing at all. The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer. Woke up far too early because of animal noises outside (probably raccoons fighting over somebody's garbage). So, given that my income is still less than half of what I should be paying in rent and utilities and seems unlikely to change in the near-enough future, I'm probably going to have to move out of here soon. [That sentence was from a f-locked post. June's first public sentence was: "Ever have one of those days where it seems like one half of your brain has chosen to be stupid and the other half is reduced to looking on in disbelief?"]

This afternoon Mother Nature provided a cool spectacle--probably the most impressive hailstorm I've ever seen. My nap was disturbed a while ago by what sounded like military planes overhead. Last night I had this dream where a bunch of people who played werewolves on a TV show with a cast of hundreds were detained and questioned because the government had found out that someone had brought flax seeds into the building. Favorite post-debate comment so far comes from frawst: "See this whole shebang wasn't going to change my mind. In the Fairfax Apartments (Apartment 12-J)
A very small, very small shirker named Jo-Jo
Was standing, just standing, and bouncing a Yo-Yo!
I don't believe in astrology, mind you, but some of you will be wholly unsurprised to learn that Mercury is now retrograde.

Okay, maybe I didn't have to interpret the rules in such a way as to make frawst quote Dr. Seuss, but I liked it that way. What he actually said back in October was, "See this whole shebang wasn't going to change my mind. Unless maybe aliens clawed out of Kerry's belly and started eating Jim Lehrer. Which would make me undecided."

Comments

[frawst.livejournal.com]

But I think that Dr. Seuss would make an EXCELLENT debate moderator.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes! Though Dubya probably would've objected, since T. Geisel was associated with socialists back in WWII. Oh man, I so wish he were alive now.

[frawst.livejournal.com]

He'd have an awful lot of fun wouldn't he?