Rag-tags

[vilakins]

I'm not tagging most of my entries, but I thought I'd at least tag my fiction and some posts in a few other categories. I have about 80 fiction posts, and I'm very annoyed to find that now I've gone to the trouble of tagging them all, the 'previous 20 entries' button stops working after skip = 60. Grrr. I'll only be adding to that category too. I've sent a report to LJ support and I hope they fix it.

I'm feeling a bit blah and that didn't help. The weather's crap (wet, grey, and so dark I had to have the lights on all day), and half my weekend seems to have disappeared without me noticing. The thought of having to walk to work next week in pelting rain like we had today doesn't fill me with delight either. I wish we had a mid-winter festival, or something to look forward to and brighten the months of unrelieved gloom. Never mind; next Friday, which would be Christmas Eve in a sensible southern world, I'll be at a pre-wedding girls' night out / booze-up at the Belgian pub in Mission Bay. That's something!

Right. I'll just go off now and cook up a yummy Thai red curry and watch some House and Who. Pity I've eaten all the chilli-chocolate Tim Tams...

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could make it your new goal, to start a Midwinter Festival tradition for the southern hemisphere? Because there really should be one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

There should be! A few people (very few) have a midwinter Christmas but it's really just a big meal, not the widepread national festival it ought to be.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Christmas is too fixed to celebrate in June, but maybe Yule is available. I think it's Midwinter, the proper pagans will know if it's appropriate.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

All the religious festivals are at the wrong time of year, but I suppose it would be very confusing to shift them all six months. It's very hard to create a new one though. Yule's a good idea, but very mixed up with Christmas too.

We also need a positive national holiday. Most other nations celebrate themselves in some way; we just have a day of conflict, guilt, and resentment which isn't even a day off work if it's on the weekend; the same with Anzac Day which is about the fallen in war. Typical of us that we don't have anything that's actually joyous.

[kerravonsen]

Queen's Birthday?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's just a day off work; there's no mass fun like at Christmas and New Year. I don't know the woman anyway. ;-)