Okay, before this Tumblr goes to an all (or at least, mostly) image format, some final text. This year was seriously the best. If 2014 is half as great, I'll be thrilled.
- I started a Tumblr! Happy First Birthday, Jenhedonia.
- I got a new job. This was at the top of my list of goals for 2013 and I achieved it in June. Props to friends Sam and Sasha who also saw the job posting and encouraged me to apply.
- I got a smart phone. If you asked me about this on January 1st I would've been terrified by this, but by late-October I had come to terms that this was happening, and it happened. On Christmas morning I sat at my grandmother's kitchen table while she read her delivered Home News Tribune and I read The New York Times on my phone. So, yeah.
- I got on a plane. The trip was all my idea so I can't even say anyone talked me into it.
- I got a tattoo. I already forget that I have it.
People Who I Love, Who I Also Saw and/or Met:
- George Saunders (he liked my glasses!)
- Jason Diamond (he liked my shirt! which was actually a dress but I was standing behind a counter, so it's not his fault)
- Andy Greenwald (so short!)
- Dinner at The Russian Tea Room with my sister.
- Photos from Waqas's Edison/Pakistan project, which I even got around to framing before the end of the year!
- Trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Volunteering for MLB FanFest.
- Free Dismemberment Plan show.
- I made great sacrifices in order to obtain a Mariano Rivera bobblehead. The wounds have nearly healed.
- I opened a Twitter account which I find myself rarely using now that baseball season is over. Though my conversation with Jonah Keri made it all worthwhile.
- US Open. My days in Flushing didn't include my favorites (Murray, Federer, and now Fish and Roddick are gone) but still worth mentioning.