This week, I learned how to play dodge ball with the rest of business school. (Go team!)

How very exhausting is the life of a grad student. :) It’s pretty great.

We started off the year with some wonderful friends in Columbus this year. They got me to leave the house on New Year’s Eve. That’s pretty impressive. :) I have a feeling it’s going to be a good year.

Here are some New Year wishes from Neil Gaiman’s blog (he is one of my favorite writers):

From a decade ago:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

From almost half a decade ago:

…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

This year:

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.