2010

The last week of December, the last week of the decade, passed relatively unremarkably, full of lots of naps, occasionally going out (especially as Daria was still here) and watching Disney movies streamed from youtube. Thursday night, New Years’ Eve, came before I knew it, and we decided to spend it in the usual company, starting at our usual place in a usual manner. We gave the night a slightly earlier start, assuming most places would get crowded earlier. It was our normal group, plus some additions from amongst the new girls at Mayanot, another reason to start early.

Along the way to meet Nechemia and Zack, we picked up a curious stranger, who became less and less attractive as his story was displayed, from dropping out of high school to a decade of drug dealing before moving to Israel, hoping to get onto the Derech and “find himself”. It seems that so many who move to become religious do so after falling farther than expected possible.

In general, the New Years was like most: I had built it up as having a great potential to be a great night, and found that everyone who should and should not have been was out in the streets, everywhere that was anywhere, even silly places, suddenly aspired themselves to have lines, charge covers, and people generally mobbed about like apes.

We ended up going to Blaze, hearing a decent blues band, and watching mid-life crisisers dance like they thought they were teens. Things were entertaining, things were trying, people were not always what we hope them to be.
Happy 2010, even if New Years eve is not like what we see in movies.