twenty-something

This time of the year brings with it this kind of busy, and all I can focus on is the pounding in my head and my recent exposure to strep, which I pick up like a heads-up penny -- which, in turn, means I'll be drinking so much POM juice that, by all rights, I should be peeing purple by tomorrow morning.

Not good.

But aside from lack of sleep and impending illness, things are going well. I had a wonderful visit with my good friends Yelli and Molly here in Vermont this weekend. And work, though engulfing, is going better than it has in a while. I spent the beginning of 2006 in New York and I've been social since my return to Burlington. It's been a fun January so far.

Of course, all of this activity means I can't (or, perhaps, won't) reflect as much as I'd like to about other important things -- my sixth anniversary of life in Burlington, my would-be third anniversary with Duncan, my second anniversary of blogging -- or start figuring out what the hell I'm going to do with my life come this summer.

But, hey, the here and now ain't so bad for the here and now -- maybe not as great as it may have been two or three years ago, but good.

Just gotta think healthy thoughts...