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[severin]

Well I was going to make a long, involved New Year's resolutions post, but that will have to wait for a bit because I am busy packing!  For Chicago!  Where I will be going to a "bang on pots and drunkenly sing Auld Lang Syne topless till 3am" type of party, then a "roast fowl and live violin music in dinner jackets" type of party.  I will get to be all classy and wear my new tuxedo-style jacket that I bought for an interview that I never got.  Sigh.

Highlights of holidays:

• Weather sucks, but
• Allowed me to spend less time with relatives who think the term "niglet" is okay to use, ever
• Said relatives also spent more time making fun of me than normal, which made me feel about 8 years old
• My dad's brother and his wife, on the other hand, are pretty much made of awesome.
• My sick cousin is cancer free but still on dialysis.  She calls her catheter her "tentacle."  As in, "Do you want me to whip out my tentacle?"
  
• Presents of note: all of Torchwood on DVD, a super nerdy Russian Linguistics book I've been looking for for about five years, an air popcorn popper (so I can stop coveting toasteraviator's), a leather jacket.

I am thinking these days about applying to teach English in Russia for a year or so, starting next fall.  It is a really scary prospect and I am not sure what I really feel about it, so I'm sure I'll write tons more about it-- if only so I can sort out my own feelings on the whole thing.  Basically I really miss Russia, but I am comfortable here.  I just don't know if being comfortable is a good enough reason to stay and possibly miss out on something big, you know?

Also, I have recently started back up the Twitter thing, so if you are so inclined and do not do so already, you can find me over there-- I'm Pikovaiadama.