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from a negative ending to 2007 to a strong beginning for 2008:

december the 31st was run by a blocked nose and breathing problems that stemmed from abusing sudafed and not fully reading the instructions. who would guess that a drug used to clear the airways would have a known side-effect of causing difficulty breathing?

and why was i such a fool to forget NOT to take it before going to bed? for more than three days i've been sleeping badly in a manner reminiscent of tool - rosetta stoned (sans brown bed) because i was taking them as i went to sleep. that explains everything.

so i was a wreck when i met with the professor yesterday. in any event, my degree is beginning to look pretty worthless in terms of what's demanded in the field i want to be in, but the man i met with is great and he's interested in helping out if possible.

i slept fitfully on the train back, and passed out as soon as i got home. it was a mission and a half getting out of bed to go out, and i was disappointed that the kid was going to spend his new year's at home alone in spite of that having been my original plan too.

i taxied and walked to meet up with gco and friends, including company from two weeks ago, and we somehow ended up at hoodna for new year's... with fireworks and a marching band playing odd music and kissing aforementioned foxy niece (fn) on the changeover (and there were two of them, apparently, so we had to kiss twice)...

fn and i split from the pack and made our way to the rock party for about half an hour of great fun, then walked back (took forever) to my apartment to celebrate the new year in style. a damn fine way to usher anything in, she's nubile but tender and deceptively innocent. that was intentional abuse, i should say that she deceptively appears innocent.

we spent the day together, mostly sleeping but waking twice to watch the fifth element and vampire hunter d (shit, forgot how long that movie is) and once to get sandwiches down the road.

i'm completely bombed, and it's time to get in even more sleep before tomorrow smacks me upside the head and a new and complicated year begins.

i hope you all had as much fun as i did :)