1. January 1st: "Back from Island Hop #1!"
   
   The year began in Greece, the best vacation ever. I met Neil Gaiman, I got to hang out with Rebecca, and I was cast in Little Shop of Horrors in an ensemble role for the first time in my life. Classes for the new semester: Proving Things: Algebra, Digital Figure Modeling, Intro to Algorithms, Crime Cinema of France and Italy, Independent Study in Fluid Simulation.
   
   
2. February 1st: "AARGH!"
   
   Little Shop was canceled. After a full semester, Ko and I got the massive hole in our wall fixed, and we got a second hatch in our bathroom ceiling. During the winter Olympics, Ko and I decided that Snowboardcross would be so much cooler if athletes could set each other on fire. I did my first piece of Dresden Files fanart: Thomas and Bianca.
   
   
3. March 1st: "Renata linked me to the iTunes Signature Maker, which is just neat!"
   
   I saw Jon Stewart, Kevin Smith, and Margaret Cho in a period of 8 days. While I was in New York for the filming of The Daily Show, I got to hang out with Jimmy, a friend from the PA Shindigs. Later that month, I went to a housewarming party for other Shindig friends, Courtney and Ryan. Also in attendance were Shindig hosts Kristin and Paul, and the fannish family of Suze, Bob, and Sami. We almost outnumbered Courtney's relatives!
   
   
4. April 1st: "New Frankenmix prompts!"
   
   Thought I had a date. Didn't. Have decided this is entirely due to The Boy's total blindness, as I am a hottie and totally dateable. Stupid boy(s). The month perked up, however, when my film class won the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival with our short film, Zeyen and Nazia. Ko had a birthday, and I was revealed to have ninjalike powers with balloon animals. I managed to get Proven Guilty (the first Dresden book to come out since I started reading the series) ten days before it was supposed to be released. That night, I went to Marcelina's dance concert, then promptly dropped said book into a rain puddle helping a blind man board a bus. Stephen Colbert did his White House Correspondents Dinner Speech-Thing and was awesome.
   
   
5. May 1st: "Linked from Croupier, Berkeley on iTunesU."
   
   Still chasing The Boy. I was The Idiot. I finally shared Milton Goldthwait with the internet, further proving I need a boyfriend. I was funny. Exam period was hellish. After classes let out, I turned over my stuff to CollegeBoxes, some of it never to be seen again. Mom and I went to New York, where we saw Sweeney Todd and The Color Purple and lots of great museums. The Dresden Files' backdoor pilot got picked up as a TV series. I got a new chair. Stephen Colbert's team photomanipped Hugh Laurie into the Wonder Woman costume. I accurately predicted Season 3 of Lost. Saw X3 and invented original character Toastito.
   
   
6. June 1st: "I recently saw Over the Hedge, and I loved it."
   
   We had our first preview of the Dresden Files TV show, and I fell in love with the actress playing Murphy when she slammed Harry into the hood of a car. I attended the third (and last) Pennsylvania Shindig, which was crazy crazy fun. Performed Serenifly: The Musical (written by Jimmy and me) and Wizard People, Dear Reader. Got an internship at ReelFX! Saw the Dallas Equality Now screening of Serenity. Watched the entirety of Battlestar Galactica (the new series, I mean). Got my ears pierced, and still feel ambivalent about this decision.
   
   
7. July 1st: "Handy!"
   
   Worked. At Job, listened to like fifty audio books. Discovered Psych, which is great. Went to the SIGGRAPH convention, which was too cool for words!
   
   
8. August 1st: "There are not enough EEEs in SQUEEE! to describe today."
   
   The other half of the SIGGRAPH convention, hence the EEEs. Wrote Dresden Files limericks. My laptop was in danger of exploding. I spent a weekend at my aunt and uncle's house in Colorado, which was wonderful. Returned to school, only to find that CollegeBoxes had lost three of my boxes. Only one would be found.
   
   
9. September 1st: "The Illusionist is getting great reviews, as it well should."
   
   Class Schedule: Feminist Fairy Tales (best class ever), Film Analysis and Methods, Physics II, Computer Graphics (the computer science side), and Calculus III. Hold me. It quickly became apparent that this semester would be a living hell. Anyway, I cooked stuff! This lasted a couple weeks. I fought the urge to set CollegeBoxes on fire. Was very, very ill one night, and the next morning was stabbed repeatedly by incompetent nurses. Body was intimidated into getting healthy again. Later that month, I discovered that the comics shop across the street had started stocking new stuff, and I wouldn't need to take the bus to 20th street whenever I needed my fix. Began Obsessively Early Planning for Sappy Lincoln Narratives Road Trip '07.
   
   
10. October 1st: "Aaaaaand CollegeBoxes can't find my stuff."
    
    Met John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, David Rees, and Amy Sedaris. Then the next day, met Nancy Pelosi, Allyson Schwartz, and Lois Murphy, and got to be (in the background) on teevee! Renata sent me hobo brownies, which were delicious. After two months, CollegeBoxes gave up on the search for my stuff, then stiffed me fifty five bucks on the claims check. So I was funny again. Wrote a revision of "Cinderella" that was awesome and also worrisome. I attended a Halloween party in York, hosted by Shindiggers Courtney and Ryan, and attended by various awesome people. For the first Halloween ever, I didn't make a new costume. This was a source of much despair, though it did mean I got to wear my awesome Sally costume again, so it wasn't too tragic.
    
    
11. November 1st: "Once more, into the breach!"
    
    I met the Brothers Quay, who are twin geniuses. Five-year-old me wrote a recommendation for Ko to the Marshall scholarship. Voted Democrat! Took really cute senior pictures. Converted many to Discworld when we read Witches Abroad in my Fairy Tales class. Celebrated my 22nd birthday with my family, as it was on Thanksgiving this year. Wrote a paper teasing out similarities between Whedon's Serenity and Ford's The Searchers.
    
    
12. December 1st: "I just slept for tweeeeelve houuuuuurs."
    
    A week after turning it in, reread Serenity/Searchers paper for coherence, now that I'd had actual sleep. It was awesome and ultimately A-worthy. Took a few hours off from the Semester of Hell to enjoy Cursor's Fury, which was a book of EEEEE. Made Rice Krispie Treats. Went to NY with Kristin for Jimmy's birthday and gave him a My Little Pony Balloon. Met John Cassaday, who thought I was funny. I still melt slightly when I think of this. At midnight one night, Ko and I went out for spontaneous pie. Jim Butcher commented on my fanart, Sci-Fi released fifty thousand Dresden TV promos, and JKR announced the totally lame title for the 7th Harry Potter book. My wizard named Harry could beat up your wizard named Harry. Renata and friends came to town, which was merry. New Year's Eve plans fell through, because "excluding Priscilla" has apparently replaced baseball as the national pasttime, not that this is the subject for a future rant or anything.

1. Spend more time drawing
   
2. Spend less time rereading/rewatching stuff I've already read/watched fifty times.
   
3. Exercise regularly
   
4. Cook more often, and healthily
   
5. Figure out what the heck I'm doing with my life.

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