I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year (and birthday in the case of MC). My Christmas was pretty good, just different with the absence of my dad for Christmas Eve and Day. This was the first Christmas with my parents being legally divorced, though last year was basically the same.

This New Year's was the best I've had in a long, long time. Nothing fancy; I just came back down to Champaign for a few days and hung out with Christie. We were at The Office at midnight, which was a lot of fun.

I do have a really bitchin' new scar from that damned broken pint glass. It sort of looks like some kind of miniature shark tried to take a bite out of my ring finger. I'm still taking suggestions on potential stories to tell people as to how I got it. I liked the bar fight idea, where I smacked a bottle into a table in order to cut someone up and it broke oddly and cut me, but I've been given other ideas. In one potential truth, I was being mugged at knifepoint when I grabbed the blade and snapped it off, turning it on my mugger, and another that involves a burning building and a baby. I don't like babies, but I guess some people may consider that heroic for some reason.

Some really damned crazy stuff has happened recently too. I'd like to believe that I'm a fairly intelligent individual, at the very least when it comes to certain academic areas, say, for instance, microbial genetics. But I'll be damned if I understand the first thing when it comes to my own emotions. I'm not saying that I think everyone else understands what they feel all the time and why, I'm just at a freaking loss. If anyone can explain my own emotions to me, I'll be very grateful, followed by confused as to how you were able to do so.