Here’s to diving into the new year with everything you’ve got.
- the zookeeper and the kitty crew
It was my birthday yesterday. I’m 24 now, which for some reason feels much older than 23, like I am now firmly entrenched in adulthood. Sometimes I still forget that I graduated from college this year. Whoa.

So I’m just bee-bopping around the house today, cleaning my room and hoping that the snow won’t keep friends from coming over for a visit later. I don’t imagine I’ll stay too late tonight, just long enough to ring in the new year. And after that I’ll collapse unconscious into my bed because it’ll be way past my bedtime (see? I am soooo old now).
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2008: the good, the bad, and the downright weird
And, from the New York Times, the Year in Ideas. My favorite: Minicattle. How cute are they?