Happy New Year everyone! It’s 2009. The last year of the ’00s. By some reckonings the last year of the decade. Ten years ago it was 1999. Twenty-five years ago it was 1984.

This month Obama takes office and Bush leaves. Just 19 days to go. Thank god.

For New Year’s Eve we saw “Doubt,” had dinner, and then went up to Inwood to visit my friend from work and his partner. It was a last-minute invite and we wound up having a great time.

I enjoyed “Doubt” a lot, but having seen the play as well, I need to go find and read the original script. Matt and I both swear there were some differences in the scene between Sister Aloysius and Donald Miller’s mother.

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2009 brings you, and me, all the best.