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[n.b.: due to broadband FAIL, this post has been backdated.]<\/i><\/p>\n

all change, please<\/b><\/p>\n

so it’s 2010, and i’ve lost all sense of time. in the past 2 months, time has been so elastic that i can’t tell whether it’s flown by or gone on for years; yesterday felt like it was 2 days long (ok, maybe it kind of was – see below). and now it’s a new start: newly single, new city, new flat, new friends, new outlook, new year, new decade. it’s been a while since i’ve made this big a change – arguably i’ve never had quite this much change all at once – and it’s exciting and daunting and hopeful and heart-rending. i haven’t yet had an oh-fuck-what-am-i-doing<\/i> moment, but every so often i feel totally overwhelmed, and it’s sometimes even hard to pinpoint why. i suppose this is normal. this is normal, right? <\/p>\n

best. nye. ever.<\/b><\/p>\n

in keeping with the over-the-topness of this year(‘s end), i have had the most memorable new year’s (silvester, here) celebration in a very long time. last month, my friend mika<\/a> suggested we do a sauna to ring in the year. i thought this was a genius idea – sweat out the old, drink in the new. so yesterday afternoon we (well, mostly he but i did show up for some of it) built his temp\u00c2\u00b0 sauna<\/a> in the hinterhof. after some dinner at mine, we fired it up and were inside by about 11:30. <\/p>\n

\"the<\/a>\"pre-blingification\"<\/a>\"bling<\/a><\/p>\n

at midnight, for those of you who’ve never been in berlin at new year’s eve, the whole city goes completely batshit crazy<\/a>. everyone’s out on the streets with bottles of champagne, buckets of fireworks and a serious party attitude. the area around the wasserturm in prenzlauer berg<\/a> is one of the focal points, and mika lives about 50 metres from it. so at 23:55, we donned bathrobes and flipflops, grabbed a bottle of bubbly and wandered out into the street. <\/p>\n

\"on<\/a><\/p>\n

it was uproariously fun to be out there in the snow in basically no clothes. and we were apparently every bit as interesting as the fireworks to quite a lot of people – one couple came over and insisted on having their picture taken with us; about a dozen people wished us happy new year; pretty much everyone in a 20 metre radius pointed and stared. i think there’s a lot of pics out there of us in our bathrobes. this is not something i would have thought i’d be ok with, but strangely i am. after about 1\/2 hour, we got cold, so back into the sauna we went. <\/p>\n

an hour or so later, the neighbours started to arrive. by the time i left, there were 6 of us in there sweating away, occasionally ducking out for a fistful of snow and a swig of polish fruit schnapps. i came home and slept better than i have all week. i woke up feeling refreshed and ready, which is pretty much the best i could have hoped for. <\/p>\n

rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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