'twas the night before Thursday

1989 ... 2004 ... 2008
The years of my lifetime when the New Orleans area received a blanket of snowfall.
This photo is from my near-the-New-Orleans-Airport office window today, December 11, 2008.
Whether it's the large per-capita voodoo priestesses or our ne're-do-well Saints curse, we're a pretty superstituous people. And seeing as how Christmas Day 2004 - which preceeded the Big Storm of 2005 - was a snow-filled celebratory event, many are wary of what the 09 hurricane season will bring.
Though the boyfriend and I have a Move-To-Paris Emergency Plan should the city flood again, I would rather dwell on those highlights of 2005.
Dirty Coast T-shirts, for one. And the rising popularity of ligers due to 2004's Napoleon Dynamite release. At that time we only thought the economy was nosediving; we too thought $2.90/gallon gas prices were outrageously high. Also responsible civic duty, months without murders, arrest of the BTK, neighborly acts of kindness, SDT Waste & Debris, renovated houses, renovated public school systems, the truth about the Iraq War beginnings, Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine.
So maybe 2009 brings unexpected joy, peace and goodwill toward men; you can't enjoy the great moments if you don't know how bad it can be.
Or maybe next year I'll be blogging from Paris.