time will always slip through

[ursamajor]

Huh, I guess I am not very good at posting on Leap Day, historically - despite having shared my life with people online for close to three decades now, I only have one Facebook memory on a Leap Day (and not even by me at that, tagged by bitty), and zero public social media or blog posts on a Leap Day AFAICT. (Twitter and Instagram do not make it easy to navigate your archives.) So to make up for that, here's my history of Leap Days as far back as I have any kind of records and/or memories that have persisted to the present day. It will surprise nobody that what I ate made it into the record at least half the time 😁

2020: It was a Saturday, we had moved back to California six months prior, and the only picture I took was one of hyounpark scrunching his face up at me because I was up at 7 am to go to the farmers' market, and he was planning to sleep in as usual. bitty, who we lived across the park from in Arlington for years, was used to texting us to ask if we wanted anything from Rein's on their trip down for the annual Chocolate Party.

2016: It was a Monday, and I worked in Fort Point then. It was a surprisingly warm day, based on my getting a chocolate freeze from the Well for coffee break, going out to Mei Mei on the piers for lunch, and then supplementing with a delicious apple sage ginger juice from Jubali. (Historical weather confirms it hit 63F in Boston that day.)

2012: It was a Wednesday, and we lived in Roxbury and commuted downtown; I picked up Cadbury creme eggs from Walgreens. Then we came home and made Mexican-spiced pulled pork and Ferran Adria’s sopa de ajo.

2008: It was a Friday, and Hyoun had just started his new in-town job that meant no more car commuting; we met up at Radius (🔒) for lunch to celebrate his first week, and had fancy schmancy burgers. Then I went out to dinner at Casablanca with a bunch of then-juniors (on their Northeast college tour) and fellow alums from my high school to talk about college and career choices. Responsible adult what?

2004: It was a Sunday, and I was both performing at Carnegie Hall and meeting noghri's mother for the first time (🔒). (Both our families were meeting because my parents flew out to see me perform! In case anyone wondered why I was an utter harried mess at the time?) There was dim sum and The Lion King on Broadway as well! And then post-concert chocolate cake with mamdvany and elemmire7 and fractalspackle :)

2000: It was a Tuesday, and I was a senior in college; I think my only classes that day were a voice lesson in the morning and a psych seminar on emotions in the afternoon, plus Mads rehearsal in the evening. I almost certainly ate dinner with my friends at the Long Table in West, and squeezed in a little time to hang out with theconvictor even though we both had rehearsal that night.

1996: It was a Thursday, and I was a senior in high school. Thursdays were awesome because my first class wasn't until like 10:15, so I got a much-needed sleep-in after Wednesdays, which were my late radio night. (I had the 8-10 pm show, and then late lights at least until the last show (sincitybrant's) ended at midnight and we switched the station over to the BBC, and I was probably still finishing up homework regardless. It was also the best radio night because all my radio friends had shows that night - Karen and Rita from 4-6, Tsuji and Chirag and Luke from 6-8 (and sometimes Damien would come hang out), then me from 8-10 and Brant from 10-12 :) ) The rest of my day was pretty busy to make up for it; after school, I worked a shift at the bookstore, then went to fencing with Jimmy and Brant, then had dinner at the Residence Council meeting, and then it was my night on duty to supervise evening study hall, and everyone was always stressed out about their Friday Sheets (extra-hard math problems based on whatever we'd learned that week).

1992: It was a Saturday, and I guarantee you I was grateful it was a weekend, as I was counting the days until I could escape the hell of middle school and never look back.

1988: It was a Monday, and I was grateful to have escaped the hell of Catholic school, being under the auspices of a not-on-Facebook teacher who would go on to become a mentor and a friend.

1984: It was a Wednesday, and I was in kindergarten, probably bored out of my mind because the reading and math were stuff I already knew.

So I guess that makes today my 12th Leap Day and my first fully-pandemic Leap Day, as 2020 was basically just before it all went to hell. Nothing special planned; need to do a bunch of laundry and write a newsletter and get ready for Saturday's songwriting retreat. I feel like I should hunt down some Quantum Leap and watch a good episode or something.

Any of you all doing anything special today? Have any traditions you observe for Leap Day?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Silver went to ECCC and I went for the weekly groceries. So nothing special for me except that I wasn't accompanied and the weather was serving up Wintery Mix.

[ursamajor]

Yeah, it ended up being just another Thursday for me as well. Complained about the amount of political mail we were receiving (and that we still need to do our ballot research before Tuesday); made Swedish meatballs for dinner. And meh to wintry mix!