happy new year!

I have all kinds of year-end/-beginning posts to write, but for now I like Neil Gaiman's perpetual New Year's wish for readers, so I'll pass it on to you:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I
hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and
don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only
you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I got most of those things (or at least the important ones) in 2007, and I'm hopeful for more this year. I hope you get them, too.