Let's tell the world we're doing fine

Best New Year's ever:

• traditional dinner of Italian food, this year in Little Italy
• a viewing of my favorite X-Files episode ("Paper Hearts," for those of you keeping score) and several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  
• perfect timing:
• Hannah and I ran the mile and a half to Prospect Park, crashed the Brooklyn Road Runners' 3.35-mile run at 11:15, finished at 11:45 and polished off some water and hot chocolate just in time for...
• fireworks at the stroke of midnight, topped off with champagne, noisemakers and a round of "Auld Lang Syne"
• hearing "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" in Dave's car...just as we were leaving Brooklyn
  
• pink champagne cupcakes at Marissa's
  
• pancakes, scrambled eggs, coffee and mimosas for brunch
• a round and a half of bowling
  
• U.J.'s nachos, grilled cheese and chocolate milkshakes for dinner

And after careful consideration, I would like to revise my answers to the following survey questions:

Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
It turns out I did make new year's resolutions last year; I resolved to develop a better teeth and skin care regimen; be better at keeping in touch with old friends; and never drink again. I would say all three of these things went marginally well.

What was your greatest musical discovery?
On December 31, I discovered Joseph Arthur. So I'm slipping him in under the wire!

Also, I don't think I would use the phrase "favorite film" to describe it, but for some unearthly reason I chose to watch United 93 a second time and it left me just as much a sobbing hysterical shell of a human being as it did the first time. So, uh, props to Paul Greengrass?