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Good morning! It's time for the very special, very first post of 2008!

Happy new years to all my readers. I hope your events and activities were all lovely. For New Year's, I went to friend Shawn and Carla's home for their New Years Party/Bad Movie Night. Great times, had by all. We watched Battle Royale and Black Sheep. Both are horrible, horrible films. I liked the sheep one though.

Anyway, revelry was had. We spent New Years Day mostly in bed- starting with the Mizzou game (Go Tigers!) and then for Mass Effect. We had dinner with Matt's parents and visited mine afterwards.

(Jeez, I hope that happened, I'm having trouble remembering just right now. Not that that means anything... No alcohol, just bad memory.)

I didn't post about Christmas, either, did I? Well, that was lovely too. We split it up- we had Christmas with Matt's family the Saturday before and were with my parents on Christmas morning. Also very lovely. I got a Wii, and extra remotes so I have three now. And Wii Play and Super Mario Galaxy and a Donkey Kong racer game. So lovely times will be had with that. Oh, and excitement (for pretty much just me and Esther) the new Harvest Moon console game comes out soon for the Wii. Harvest Heroes. I'm very excited. Matt reminded me about that on Friday, to which I said, "This is the single most exciting event in my LIFE." I might be overstating some, but who isn't excited to water plants by tilting the Wii mote? It's like you're actually farming!!! (That was a joke.)

So there's that. Oh, Matt got me a really cool painting for Christmas. Not got, like went to the store, but had our artist friend Meg do one of me, riding a dinosaur. It's really freaking cool. And not to mention, it looks like me, which is very weird. I've never been in a painting before. Gah!!! :D I'll try to remember to scan it when I'm home next, I promised some people I'd bring a picture in anyway. Very, very cool.

So that was Christmas!

Oh, some other news- Matt didn't get the Atlanta job. The whole thing was very strange. It sounded like the AJC wanted both candidates, and created a second job that would mostly do online databases. They really wanted Matt to take that job, which he naturally turned down. It's essentially what his intern (the Lovely F!) does here. Lame. By a lot. So we passed on that, and in an effort to be nice to them anyway, Matt suggested they find some kid out of college to do that for them.

Fast forward a few days- I'm checking my school email, where I get letters about internship opportunities. The very last one happens to be the exact job they offered Matt. Hi-larious.

Add another layer to it, as I'm considering applying. I could like it. :D

So that's that, but that doesn't mean he's out of options. Now there's a new opening that someone called him about- Director of Databases at the journalism organization, NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Aided Reporting). That would be in Columbia, Missouri. Matt's college stomping ground, of sorts. It's sort of a small town, and Matt never really had plans to go back, but with a word like Director in the job title, there's money involved. It freaked Matt out at first, because it's the sort of job he'd imagined getting when he was burned out from working at a paper. And it seems early when he's just a fresh and (relatively) young 28-year-old.

Haaaa, I jest- he's old.

So there's that happening. Not to mention he's using the rocket sauce he's got lately to get a raise. I mean, boy's not even job hunting and every paper (and their mother's paper) wants him.

It must be nice to be a stud.

Anyway, things are less optimistic for me. Or, well, maybe I'm just less optimistic. My editors are trying to get me to get where they can consider me for a reporting job here. That means more clips and hard news, essentially. I'm not very optimistic, but I'm still going to work hard just to see if it works out. If not, I'm just building experience for Atlanta or whoever wants to hire me next.

Mum and Dad are good. Nothing new there. Oh, I heard David broke up with his girl, Ashley. Was it Ashley? She worked at Ashley's anyway. Whatsherface. They're done.

Oh, exciting things this month:

-Classes start soon. Most of mine are online, so I get to spend more time at my favorite place in the whole world- my desk. At the office.
-I have an advising appointment Jan. 15. Musn't forget that.
-Ed team meeting next week, Jan. 9.
-Jefferey's birthday is Jan. 12. It's not really exciting at all for me, but whatever.
-Special showing of a new collection at the art museum on Jan. 19. I need to order my tickets for that too.
-I'm planning on heading to Flagstaff for the weekend of Jan. 25-27. Could be just one day, but I have the weekend off and if my snow dances have worked, I'll have nice powdery snowy softness to play in.
-Sappy anniversary on the 29th. Eeeew.
-Beth Darling's birthday is Feb. 2. Again, not exciting for me, but that means I have to work. Happily so, no sarcasm there.
-My birthday!!!! All POTATOES!!! I'm so psyched for dinner.

Okay, I'm done. See you!