The end of another year.

Tomorrow we enter the late part of the decade. The late ’00s. Weird. The decade still feels new sometimes, and yet we’re already in its final third.

What I will remember most about this year are losing my job and spending a majority of the year unemployed – a period that is at long last coming to an end. Losing my job was good for me, because it initiated a long period of self-assessment. I hope all the assessment pays off.

Matt and I also lost a social circle over the summer. I still get to hang out with some of those friends on an individual basis, even if it’s not the same as having a regular weekly gathering.

I finally joined a gym last January – a belated New Year’s resolution that I actually kept. I work out regularly, and even if I haven’t gotten all big and muscly, the gym is still a great help to me.

Also this year, my brother and his fiancé got married. It was a beautiful, lavish wedding – a real highlight of the year.

There were also numerous theater outings, books, movies and TV shows.

So I’ll kick off 2007 with a new job and a blank slate. Blank slates are always nice.

Happy New Year.