Ugh, ugh, ugh. Insult and injury: Nanni leaves, we undecorate, and there's still the awkward "too much togetherness!" in my family. Even though, you know, no one leaves for school or anything at present.

The New Decade was wonderful! Went up as Lauren had a hotel, took Alex and Amanda and spent the day cruising through Bookman's and town in general, then went to Beaver Street, where I ate exactly half of my wonderful pizza and then forgot the rest of it because of the equally wonderful beer.

("Wonderful" count: three.)

We stayed at Lauren's room for a bit, met Delano, went over to Wes's and met some of his excellently amusing friends that made me realize once again that I missed so many good times up there. Apples to Apples, grad students, off-color jokes ... I like schooling now, but I miss desperately folks who are old enough to drink legally. Or, barring that, who are relatively sorted.

Anyway. I'm kind of angsty tonight. And increasingly and crazily horny, fyi.

We went downtown for the dropping of the pinecone, which was freezing - I sobered up in about five minutes, thanks to the almost-zero degree weather. My fingers were frostbitten, or so I thought, and I remember screaming in the car as we slid over ice (I was not driving), but I think that was before.... ELLIPSIS