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It's December and I'm ambushed with unexpected emotion. Every December I've ever had is raining in hard on me, a deluge of associations and memories. For as long as I can remember, I've thought I've known what winter is forever. But even now, there's only thirty of them to go on. I smoke as many cigarettes in a couple of days. But that's the way it works. Our brains are equipped to get a handle on life so fast. Have you ever tried to gather up all you know of the universe in a moment? That's your life, that is.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Ambushed by', not with, I meant.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

n. and hanle y have finally become one.

i hate december, myself.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

only 3 weeks to go until the return of the sun

― ron (ron), Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Wooo . . . crescent moon . . . . oooo the universe! . . . oooo the colours! oooo the poom! . . . . oooo the wonderful magical mysticalness of the stars of the heavens of the skies . . . Wooo . . . the misty mountains and the eternal nature of the pindrop of a cloud . . . Wooo the flailing beak of nature as it peems it weeble way across the super moon of the eternity bench . . . look at the bench. does it coo? coo like a pigeon? ooo . . . hear it coo . . . coo coo pigeon world and the blessed mammory headrest of mother nature ming . . . Wooo . . . oh mother sun as thou does return towardst massive eye conciousness of the mind human . . . ooo the colours . . .

What's that? What's that sweet pigeon nature? What's that oh coo-coo mother pigeon life? . . . . coo . . coo . . coo like a cloud and tell me your message . . . what does your windworld breath say down my fleshy back and in my microcosmic ear? ear of God? ear of mother earth?

My message is about the dolphins, sweet pigeon coo coo

Ah . . . .

I see the sun now with a different lens. I see the clouds as if people. People in harmony. Harmony with the pigeons.

Coo . . . Coo

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate December. I think I cry every day in December.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 1 December 2002 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

december is my birthday month, also the month i seem to make decisions that alter my path in life dramatically.
i like december, and i enjoy thinking back on all my previous decembers, even the rotten ones although i dont think many have been that bad.
it is a good month, summer here and it feels 'light'.

― donna (donna), Sunday, 1 December 2002 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i have things to say about december, but i am drunken right now...

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 1 December 2002 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

December is one of my favourite months. I was born for winter. I just feel much happier and more creative when it's cold and dark. I don't think I could handle life in a hot climate.

Life does exist in a moment, as time is false.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 December 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I probably hate July most of all the months, the dust, the haze, the long days. Horrible.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 December 2002 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I really love July. But December is good too. This is because I often spend the end of it reading the books I got for presents at Christmas. This year I hope to get Harry Hill's novel, "Flight From Deathrow".

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 1 December 2002 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

December is also my birthday month.. and it's always kind of an introspective month for me.. an "ok, the year is almost gone, let me reflect on my life right now" moment.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 2 December 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

you all need to drive upto hillside manor sometime after 3am to talk a little while about the year

― Queen G (Queeng), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite like December. It's dark, but not as dark as January because of all the lights in town. I can finally stop moaning about the money side of it all, because shops are allowed to be Christmassy in December. And the local kids have finally run out of fireworks.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I like December. I like being indoors when it's wet and dark and miserable outside, and December is the ideal time for that. Christmas = time off from college after 12 consecutive weeks, also. I can't wait!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I like December, because winter is great. It does lead up to New Years though, which is always depressing.

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah 12 whole weeks, it's a nightmare. I'll really need those 6 off for recuperation.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

December used to be okay, but for past few years its = end of semester = finals/papers = stress. so no, December now sucks. I really like the sign of Aquarius, but February is even worse, it's just so dark and short and stressful (planets transiting my 8th house!)

Ah, but March, when life comes alive again, or June, when it blooms ...and July! I probably hate July most of all the months, the dust, the haze, the long days. - I feel just the opposite, it's long, and languid, and lazy and luxurious and so very relaxing =)

― V or maybe Vee, Monday, 2 December 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I love December. The ponds should be frozen soon, hockey season is in full swing, non of this cold rain stuff since its all snow and a couple weeks break from studies as a student was great.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't hate December, I rate December. And as long as the river doesn't flood, I don't have much to worry about.
There was a period in my late teens/early 20s whereI just didn't feel comfortable at all with Christmas, the familial obligations were an irritant, and I just totally resented having to walk around fucking Debenhams or wherever trying to see something I could buy brothers wives' sisters or some other obscuro near-relative that I didn't really know.
Christmas day itself can still be a chore, it's always me who has to haul ass around to people's houses, but still, generally i'm fine with it. December is a disruption in the year were the yearly routine is halted, and that's cool.

I not even minding the Xmo shopping this year, I just bought my little neice a Hobby Horse, and I can't wait to see her face [drop] when she see's it. And that's great!

― DavidM (DavidM), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

N: great thread thingy.

I like it too.

Rosemary: why cry in December?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

December is dressing up warmly and drinking hot drinks and putting up the xmas tree. All the houses on my street have already put up lights and trees and decorations - I have so much to do!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

december is not the worst. granted, it can be a bit depressing if you're a bit sick of the whole christmas rigmarole, like wot i am. i fantasise about getting away from it all and going to somewhere completely unchristmassy, like the man in Midnight Clear who spends it on a remote island with no company save a muscovy duck (uncooked) named vladimir.

― rener (rener), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

PF: because my birthday depresses me and the holidays depress me.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't usually care for December. Or January. But I think both of those will be good this time around.

― mandee, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't really like december - it's the end of the year and it's fucking cold and depressing. it's my birthday month too, but that doesn't really make it any better or worse. i just hate the winter in general. christmas music in shops cheers me up sometimes though, strangely.

― sand.y, Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

December is nice because it's still only the beginning of winter before everyone is fed up of the snow, slush and long nights. Plus the ice skating, lights, The Nutcracker, warming yourself by the fire kind of stuff. Having a special holiday dress. Time off from work/school. A few days ago I chopped down our Christmas tree. Fun!

― Genevieve, Thursday, 5 December 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

It's so crisply pretty today but I haven't been so interested in December this year.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i've felt pretty crappy most of this month so far (tho by no means as bad as some folk on here judging by recent threads) - much to be thankful for and i should try and focus on that and look forward - technically this week could and should be one the greatest of my life but sadly i have this sense it won't be :(

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

December is just always really difficult and really shit for me. Though it does bring some little comfort to *me* to realise this and know it and think "I'm not depressed for no apparent reason, I'm depressed because it's December and I hate it" - it is really hard to explain to partners or friends who just don't understand, or who just don't *want* to be understanding.

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i always feel very utterly single in december

― ken c, Monday, 8 December 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dam straight

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Same as every other month except cold and I notice having no money more. The days between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve are pretty awful I suppose, the long dark teatime of the soul x 100000.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

a long dark teatime of cold turkey. tho last year this period was punctuated by my favourite FAP ever, the one where we went on a hexagonal pub crawl starting at the Head of Steam.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah! That was a good FAP!

That did save some part of a December I had rued.

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

depending on how Christmassy the weather is i wouldn't mind visiting Oxford that postChrim/preNYE week

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

heh, I'll be in London!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I started watching old family slides with Nick last night and there are quite a bit from Christmases past. Lots of horrible shots of my family when we first wake up - the mandatory pre-gift-opening shot on the stairs.

This December is good. :) I am limiting my time with the extended family to barely more than 3 days.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

December is both great and melancholy at once and I don't mind it. Compared to the hell of last December with the insanity of the 'move in three weeks or you're fucked' situation, this December is peace and balm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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