May Day

Apparently today is May Day.  I'd never really heard about May Day until this year.  These days, May Day is associated with an International Worker's Day or a Labor Day.  Boring.  Demonstrations too.  No offense to those who do care, but I could really care less about the demonstrations.  Do people really think that is going to make a difference?  Really.  The government does what it wants, when it wants, and only does stuff for alterior motives.

Anyway, the traditional May Day is way more exciting.  The earliest May Day was the Festival of Flora who was the Roman goddess of flowers.  I'm down with that since I like flowers.  Then there's the tradition of dancing around the Maypole and the crowning of the Queen of May.  I could dance around a Maypole and you can crown me Queen of May too.  What do I get to do if I'm Queen of May?  But if I dance around the Maypole, is that kind of like pole dancing?  Hummm.  I've never tried that before. The May Pole in England was known for mixed gender dancing, drunkenness, and merry-making. Whoo hooo!  In Scotland, at dawn on May Day, there's a run into the sea, occasionally naked.  Ha!  This gets more fun as I go!  Avoid Crete though where May is considered the month of the dead, and getting married in May is unlucky, note to self. 

So Happy May Day to all!  May it involve much (May) pole dancing, drunkenness, and naked swimming; and avoid the demonstrations and getting married...

(Info courtesy of Wikipedia)