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Question: How will you spend your Christmas vacation?

I’m going to be drunk every night because of my broken heart. - K. M.

I’m going to catch up on tiddle de winks, ping pong, and parchesi. - A. M. T.

Catch up on some sleep and make whoopee. - M. K.

I’m going to have company (it’s quite alright and proper). -J. B.

I intend to vegetate - J. B. A.

I am going straight to hell and not come back - D. H.

Barnard Bulletin, New York, December 20 1935

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    FDR is in office. The Social Security Act is signed
    Worst of the Dust Bowl heat wave. 109℉ in Chicago
    The Labor Day hurricane, a category 5, hits the Florida Keys
    The Helena earthquake hits at 6.5 in Montana.

    Rough year. No wonder everyone sounds like the COVID-19 lockdown.

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      99° F (37° C) in Chicago last summer was a catastrophe. And there was even air conditioning which took the edge off after trudging through sidewalks that had begun to stick to my shoes. I cannot even imagine a 1930s 109° F (43° C).

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    Gonna start using “vegetate” now whenever I want express desire for total nothingness.

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    See, things didn’t start with Reddit or even with Usenet. This kind of stuff has always been with us, it just gets easier to see as tech progresses.

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    I’ll be whoopee. My partner and I have been very lax on that (depression?) but we plan to get all fucked up on drugs and get nasty. Stupid holidays.

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    Samesies. Gonna pull a submarine until January, nothing but art and zaza.

    Edit: included “games” under “art”:))

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        In terms of “content,” most certainly! Both aspects!:))

        In terms of activity, I’ve been looking forward to some alone time for a couple of years now, so it’s perfection incarnate.

        If this was a reference, I missed it completely!=))

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        Playing vidya, continuing to write my cyberpunk-y D&D campaign/epic (which will most likely devolve into something completely different 30 minutes into actually playing it, but it is what it is!:)) )

        That, and I REALLY need to practice playing the bass, get back in the groove.

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    K.M. - King Martin
    A.M.T. - Automated Money Teller
    M.K. - Martin King
    J.B. - James Brown!!!
    J.B.A. - James Brown & Associates
    D.H. - Lawrence?