Did you have a good New Year? I had a fantastic one, and a lovely winter vac, doing little more than spending time with loved ones, catching up with good friends, being happy and hardly doing any work at all. So it's here. 2005 will mark the end of my time in Oxford, the beginning of living Finalist hell, but hopefully also many other good stuff that will come along the way. It's going to be a long and angst-ridden road down to Finals, but things are going to turn out right. I feel as if I've reached a new stage of inner calm, it's probably the happy corollary of being relaxed and well-rested over Christmas, having had so much love around me, and the sheer relief of getting over 2 (very badly done) collections yesterday. In any case, here's to a year of peace, joy and happiness.