Nathan Christopher Charles Summers [ CABLE ] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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exsilium2014-01-06 06:36 pm
oldsoldiersneverdie) wrote in exsilium2014-01-06 06:36 pm
[ 16 ] Voice, backdated to... closer to New Year's
What marks the 'new year' depends on where you're from, though I guess the Gregorian calendar never really wore out it's popularity, from the looks of it. Just a little past the change in sunlight at the solstice - and that's always been more of a 'new year' to me, even if it doesn't match the calendar - and we've got a month or two to go before the lunar new year, though I don't know the calculation off hand.
But as we can mostly agree on this one - here's to surviving another year despite the challenges, and may the coming one be better than the last.
But as we can mostly agree on this one - here's to surviving another year despite the challenges, and may the coming one be better than the last.
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[ She doesn't really know how to explain it. She can't even convert a sweep into a year. ]
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Probably the same - whatever day a cyclical calendar restarts, basically.
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[ She shrugs. It's just another day to her. Fish don't have calendars and fireworks don't work very well underwater. ]
What's different about a lunar new year?
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Lunar calendars count time by the movement of the moon around the earth, rather than the earth around the sun. The counts don't quite match up, so cultures that use a lunar calendar have different day for the new year.
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I'd toast to that.
[If he could drink.]
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Wouldn't be the first to do so, and hopefully not the last, either. Sometimes that's the most you can accomplish - simply surviving.
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Survival is still worth celebrating, though...
[He trails off, sounding distracted.]
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It is. We lived, even if we lost things along the way. The world tried to beat us, and for this year - we won.
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[ and a long, long silence. ]
People're. . . supposed to drink to that, aren't they?
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Usually. Good stuff's kind of hard to find around here, though.
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Think you can always find someone brewing that, and you might not even get methanol poisoning from it, around here.
[Nate you're not funny]
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You tried it, huh.
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Looking for drinks? Yeah. Though everything's changed again and I'm not sure if it's a net gain or loss of shitty dive bars.
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Some days? Definitely. [and if you're at a shitty dive bar, well, chances are it's one of those days where quality doesn't matter]
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[There's a gruff laugh]
What, that it's so bleak, or that I said anything at all?
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I may have been accused of idealism once or twice in the past.
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Not in my eyes, but I know plenty of people who'd think otherwise.
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Most of them? Still alive, still cynical. But I can understand why - idealism is hard.
voice
Happy new year to you too. Got any resolutions going on?
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Other than 'survive this year too'? Not really.
voice
[If he were at home, his resolution would be to try and get into college. Funny how quickly your priorities change.]
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Didn't you learn to be polite to your elders? [His tone of voice makes it pretty clear it's just teasing, though]
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Then, after a moment's consideration.]
And my grandma.
[You do not mess with the women of his family. You do not mess with the women of his family. It's practically engraved in stone.]
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Family matriarch, I take it?
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I think I can guess at the type. [Hi Jean]
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New year, new place. I guess people would think that's pretty fitting.
voice
In a cosmic sort of way, yeah. I doubt our new arrivals are going to feel the same way, though.