i'm goin' to toontown

For auld lang syne, my friends: here's the year in review as seen through public posts in this journal.

January: "o hai"
February: "Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Bride of the Icon Meme"
March: "I participated in the purimgifts fic exchange again this year."
April: "HI SO UM this."
May: "I really should announce these things farther in advance...."
June: "Memery"
July: "Housefilk in Queens, July 25"
August: "... ... ..."
September: "oh also"
October: "The meme goes: Comment and I'll give you a color that I think represents you..."
November: "I heard Talis Kimberley sing this at DucKon this past summer."
December: "What I Did On My Vacation to Israel"



ETA: Also, behind the cut-tag: ( Books I read in 2010. )

So as some of you already know, tomorrow evening sdelmonte and I will be getting on a flight to Israel for the bar mitzvah of my oldest nephew. I haven't been back to Israel in just over twenty years; a week isn't nearly enough time to be spending there, but sadly, that's all we have.

The place we're staying is supposed to have wifi, but (a) we have no idea how reliable it will be, and (b) we're likely to be busy with family things and/or sightseeing for most of the time we're there. So I may be able to respond to email and maybe LJ, but don't expect to see me online much (or indeed possibly at all) between tomorrow evening and late the evening of the 30th.

Be excellent to each other, and don't burn down the internets while I'm gone.

Home from Denver. Had a fantastic time, saw lots of awesome people including some I was meeting for the first time, learned to play Rinky Dink while contact-drunk, and discovered the truth about the most important clown statue of all.

And, as is to be expected, my pants are bankrupt about as far back as noonish Friday. I'm hoping to catch up some this afternoon, but, well, we shall see.

Cesil Kohlman Levin, educator, dies at age 94.



I love you, Grandma.

Miss you so much.

Have fallen behind on friendslist, and am about to fall behind even further as we're off to OVFF in just under an hour.

There are no words in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for how much I need this con right now.

All my dear ones who will be there: I'll see you soon.

Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah.

As usual: in prosaic terms, this means I won't be around between now and Sunday night. (Next week is normal; the following week I'll be gone from sunset Sunday until a few hours after nightfall Monday. Schedule for after that will follow, but essentially it's going to consist of a couple of missing Saturday-night-through Sundays.)

In slightly less prosaic terms: this seems as good a time as any to let people know that at least one of the things I was praying for this time last year is on its way to coming true.

sdelmonte and I are expecting our first child in March of 2010.



This is the time of year for introspection and self-evaluation. And, where necessary, self-correction.

This is the time of year when the fate of the world, and the fates of all individuals therein, is written and sealed for the coming year. We say in the liturgy: how many will perish, and how many will be created.

Please God. Please, God.

May it be a good and a blessed year for all of us.

So ten years ago yesterday, I married this guy.

Ten years.

Still dizzy in love with you, Alex. Always.

So I never do these -- I always say "more later" and then never do -- and I think I should really start. To make it a bit easier, I will do my con report in the form of a series of bulleted lists.

( Bullet time! )

Does anybody have any questions? Any answers? Would anyone care for a mint?

Because, as I posted in someone else's LJ today:

I realized today, while looking over my icons, that I don't have a political pride one. Just a political angst one (here) and a political mischief/defiance one (here).

And what that means, I gradually realized, is that this is the first time I've needed one.



Yes we did. By god, yes we did.

From smallship1:

If there is someone that you miss dearly, for any reason, post this exact sentence in your journal.



Yeah.