Poll: Year End

[thefourthvine]

I've seen lots of people doing year-end wrap-ups, but, well, I don't really have a lot to wrap up. You all know how my year went. Instead, I thought I'd ask you: how was your year? Are you happy, baby? (I'm also curious because a lot of people seem to have had absolutely terrible 2007s; I'm wondering if it was just the Cursed Year or what.)

And the question at the end is a very important one. Best Beloved and I were talking about that story, and we totally disagreed about what happened. I'd like to be proved right by majority rule, please. Voting is key.

[Poll #1114196]

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[melannen.livejournal.com]

I was first exposed to that story not in class, but at an evening program at Math Camp, where this energetic little old guy had turned it into a half-hour long skit (with actors drafted from the audience) that had an evil queen and missing treasure and things, and the choice at the end was actually a formal logical paradox of the liar's puzzle type (because he'd been smart enough to sneak out and bribe the staff for info) so it was based on logic rather than messy emotional stuff, and we got to see all the bits of connected evidence and then vote on which door he opened, and then he got eaten by a tiger. Because it turned out that they were *all* tigers, of course.

And then I went home and looked up the story, and it was stupid and boring and it was pretty obvious that the answer he was fishing for was that getting married and being eaten by tigers is really six of one, half a dozen of the other.

So I vote that it was actually cake.