There’s a meme floating around to see what the first sentence bloggers posted each month. I’m feeling like being a lazy blogger today, so I thought I’d see what mine said about my year. Then I discovered they were, with a couple of exceptions, boring. Apparently I can’t be that lazy, so I also offer you a haiku for each sentence. At least it offers variety….<\/p>\n
January:<\/strong> “We rounded out the year 2005 with a quartet of movies over two days.”<\/p>\n Four movies were watched February:<\/strong> “Parents in Williamson County, Tennessee, have been asked to sign an anonymous petition demanding that the classic To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> be removed.”<\/p>\n A classic challenged — March:<\/strong> “February was a quiet book-buying month, coming on the heels as it did of the heavy book acquisitions of January (and frankly, the month was filled with Winter and Knitting Olympics \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who has time to hit the bookstores properly?).”<\/p>\n Knitting booties and April:<\/strong> “Happy April Fool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day!”<\/p>\n On the first day of May:<\/strong> “The medals plaza has been disassembled.”<\/p>\n Eventually June:<\/strong> “Karen took me bra shopping on Friday (this is how good a friend she is; she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t force me to stand under fluorescent lights in my underwear by myself).”<\/p>\n This sentence stands out July:<\/strong> “Several more books were finished during the second fortnight of June (the first half of the month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading is here), including one I acquired at the Orange County Airport.”<\/p>\n Vacations are a August:<\/strong> “Rudi and I are heading north on Amtrak in the morning to join friends Karen and Michael, Erica, and Erik (and maybe old college pal Mike) for An Evening with Harry, Carrie, and Garp.”<\/p>\n Who would miss out on September:<\/strong> “The rain and wind have finally kicked in.”<\/p>\n Blustery weather October:<\/strong> “I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally root against the Mets, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see them lose today.”<\/p>\n Please don’t ever ask November:<\/strong> “Today marks Day 1 of NaNoWriMo.”<\/p>\n Thirty-five pages December:<\/strong> “How long are candy canes good for?”<\/p>\n There’s a meme floating around to see what the first sentence bloggers posted each month. I’m feeling like being a lazy blogger today, so I thought I’d see what mine said about my year. Then I discovered they were, with a couple of exceptions, boring. Apparently I can’t be that lazy, so I also offer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nduring the last waning days
\nof the dying year.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nmore parents unwilling to
\nlet their children grow.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nwatching sports on tv cuts
\ndown on book buying.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nApril would you expect a
\ndifferent first line?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\neven the lazy knitter
\nmust finish her work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nas being the only one
\ncomplete on its own.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\ngreat way to blow through a pile
\nof books to be read.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nspending a sultry evening
\nwith cool authors? Who?!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nis a real treat. Too bad it
\nall came in month nine.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nme to type those words again.
\nThey pained me to say.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nis nothing to sniff at, but
\njust wait ’til next year. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe general thought
\nwas that candy canes may
\noutlast us all. Huh!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"