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Happy New Year, 2008
Posted 1 January, 2008 in Uncategorized |
Woke up this morning to a gentle fall of snow, which continues unabated. The city is resting under a canopy of pristine white, its streets are quiet, presumably because the urban denizens are sleeping off whatever bacchanalian revelries transpired last night. (Sadly, your humble correspondent was unforgivably well behaved and is therefore unable to regale you with stories of streaking through the high school football field, funnelling beer through a vacuum hose, or waking up in a hotel room in Prague with absolutely no idea how he got there. Hmm … Perhaps I’ve just hit on a resolution for the coming year …) By tomorrow things should get back to a normal routine, the new-fallen snow will have turned to a brownish slush, and the hangover will kick in for real. In the meantime, please accept my heartfelt wishes for a happy, safe, prosperous, and literary new year.