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posted by [personal profile] imaginarycircus at 02:32am on 31/12/2008
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The Swiss are building a 35-mile railroad tunnel through the Alps. It'll take another nine years to finish carving out the path through the mountain, and will ultimately require the removal of 24 million tons of rock. I suggest you regard this masterpiece, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, as an inspirational symbol. The coming months will be prime time for you summon the willpower necessary to get really serious about an equally ambitious project.

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O_O

They started in 1993 more or less and are projected to finish in either 2015 or 2018. OK. The weird part? One of the images I've always taken to heart as a dubious believer in things like Sun signs? Is a mountain goat capering up a mountain side and not stopping until it gets there, no matter how long it takes. I guess sometimes it is better to go under the mountains though. Is this some weird Fellowship of the Ring reference? I really don't want to go to Moria.

[livejournal.com profile] lilaia got your pick axe ready?
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posted by [personal profile] imaginarycircus at 02:20pm on 31/12/2008
We're not snowed in technically. We can leave the house. David walked up to my coffee shop and brought back a scone and a latte for me. It took a while though. I thought he was just going for milk. He's so sweet.

He also invited friends over for dinner since we can't get to New York to see family. See why he bought me a latte before he told me that? :D It's fine. I'm going to keep the food simple.


salad with pears, blue cheese, and candied pecans

Roasted rosemary and lemon chicken
roasted garlic mashed potatoes
roasted root vegetables (carrots and whatever else looks good)

chocolate chip cookie iced cream sandwiches

And we just got a thank you card for the cookies we sent David's 91 year old grandmother. She thanked us for the "mushrooms" we sent and said she had the last one with her tea. Uh, those were macaroons. :D

eta: I was just thinking about kids staying up late excited to see in the New Year. I remember when it was a special thing to stay up that late. Of course my house was always depressed on New Year's. My father went to bed early in a bad mood. I didn't know that it was the day his own father had killed himself for a very long time.

But that excitement of witnessing the old year change into the new one? There is the party aspect, and hope--the entire fresh year spreading out before you like clean sheets still warm from the dryer. It's also kind of certainty I don't normally have. Where are am I? What am I doing? What do I want?

We construct artificial boundaries to make sense of the world. Time is measured, Land is surveyed and claimed--but we know those are just tricks. We all agree that this is Massachusetts, and that New Hampshire is up there, and California over there. We believe it because it keeps us sane and organized. (I'm murdering Rousseau a little bit here, please forgive me.)

But there is something about those boundaries that is more than a trick. Did you ever stand with one foot in one state and you other foot in another? I think that is what we do with the New Year. We keep one foot in 2008 and will put the other in 2009. For a moment we bridge them. We are in two times at once. Yes, you can argue that we do that at every second, but I don't think it is quite the same. The way standing with one foot in your yard and one in the street is not the same as standing with one foot in Canada and one foot in the United States.

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