New Year's Eve is typically about as exciting for me as just about any other day of the year. One year i was in a parking lot smoking cigarettes due to a lack of a better idea. A few years ago i was in a caravan of cars driving to a friend's when New Year's hit. Last year was spent watching the ball drop alone on my couch in Jersey. Every few years we have a New Year's party and those are probably the more exciting New Year's i've ever had. All these families and kids come over and the adults wear silly hats and we all count down and then sing "Auld Lang Syne." Once i think we had a rented wheel of fortune thing for the kids. Or maybe that was a Christmas party. That would make more sense i guess.



Anyhow, with those years as a standard of measurement, this year was perhaps the most exciting New Year's i've ever had in my life. It wasn't much and it wasn't exactly mind numbing fun but at least we did something. That something was three hours of 15+ people stuck in a little room singing karaoke. It was fun but singing sappy love songs with fifteen non-drunken people isn't always conducive to a fruit bursting type of fun. James did a pretty damn impressive rendition of Jodeci's "Lately" however. Afterwards we all went to eat at Keith's and got one big long table and that was pretty exciting because the omelette was quite delicious.



Holidays are overrated. Especially New Year's. Ten seconds of excitement if you're lucky. Whoopee. Can't wait for next year. Actually, we didn't even count down right because we missed it so we had to do a pseudo-countdown. Can you feel the excitement?



(This is in no way saying that i didn't have a good time just hanging out with a mass of friends however, just more of a diatribe against the futility of celebrating a flip of the calender. I think i lack spirit. Holiday, school or otherwise.)