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Jan 1 03: post fest
Final attendance at our New Year’s bash stood at 18. The fun officially began at 7pm, when Peter & Robin called us from Oxford to trumpet 2003’s arrival in the UK. (Hi, guys.) And things only got better from there. Two people brought cucumber salads, for instance. At midnight we went up onto the roof, drank Champagne, and watched the fireworks fountain up above the buildings of Times Square. Somebody left behind a lovely cream-colored fleece scarf. In the kitchen are 34 juice/wine/champagne/manhattan glasses which we will wash tomorrow. Also six unopened liters of tonic water. We’re going to bed now.
What the hell are we going to do with six liters of tonic water? There’s a great deal of delicious leftover snacky food in the refrigerator, too.
next year
Paul muses that his ideal 2004 New Year’s party features only moderate amounts of alcohol and a simple meal. And that we should all be left with a feeling of exhilaration as though we’d come in from a bout of nighttime cross-country skiing through dark woods lit by torches.Anybody with ideas on how this can be accomplished without involving actual woods, torches, or skiing is invited to contact the editor.