Worthwhile reading: Daniel Mendelsohn analyzes the TV production of “Angels in America.” The articles from a year ago but I stumbled upon it yesterday.

Mendelsohn is the author of The Elusive Embrace, which I loved.

I just took an online quiz and it turns out I’m my favorite Peanuts character.

You are Schroeder!

Which Peanuts Character are You?
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“Happy New Year,” I heard someone say to someone else in the restroom this morning, and for the first time, I heard the words echo into a corridor of years, past and future. I pictured the same two people in an endless, annual succession of New Year’s greetings. This is how people find themselves staying in jobs forever. This is how ten, twenty years pass so quickly. One simple greeting to acknowledge the passage of time, another click along the wheel, and then life continues.

I don’t want that to be me.

Perhaps one of my New Year’s resolutions will be to resume my search for a goal.