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[geassreceived]

[ ZZZZZZZT! ] ... o, ow. I always forget about that...

[ little "mew" in the background; he replies with a gentle "shhh" sound ]

Ah... well, it's almost New Years, isn't it? I suppose the year date doesn't really have meaning here.

Does anyone celebrate New Years as a major holiday, here? I'm more familiar with it than Christmas, to be honest.

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[suckmycannon]

New Year's Eve is pretty much the holiday to celebrate where I'm from. New Years Day isn't usually all that major, aside from it also being National Hangover Day. You can't have one without the other, really.

[geassreceived]

Really? What sort of celebrations happen on New Year's Eve?

Aside from the drinking, I mean.

[suckmycannon]

Pft, some would object that there's nothing else aside from the drinking. But really, anything and everything can go down on New Year's Eve. Heck, you don't know what celebrating the New Year is like unless you go to New York. Times Square is where it's all at my boy, but describing it doesn't do it justice. You've gotta see it with your own eyes.

[geassreceived]

[ blinking ]

"Times Square"? What's that?

[suckmycannon]

It's a part of Manhattan; an intersection of the street with tons of buildings. Imagine a fireworks show 24/7. That's kind of how you'd explain what you'd see in Times Square every night. Nothing but sound and lights, and on New Years Eve, you multiply all that noise by about a hundred. They drop a huge ball made of crystal and lights from one of the skyscrapers while just about a million people count down the last few seconds of the year. Of course, that's not including the millions more that watch it from the comfort of their television screens. If you want to celebrate the new year right in the US, you go to Times Square in New York.