New Year's, back in The Have

Yesterday/the night previous, Laura, Tamar, Christina, and I had a suitees reunion in New Haven for New Year's Eve. It was so wonderful to see them again! I've never been terribly close to girls- particularly a group of girls- but I am so comfortable with these women. It made me so happy to see them :)

New Haven is, btw, simultaneously very lovely and slightly sketchy when no one is around. And there was NO ONE around on New Year's Eve when we were wandering around the city looking for ice cream. We went to Bar for dinner- had lovely pizza and shared a 1/2 pt. of beer between the four of us (we didn't finish it)- then we went to Walgreen's (the only place open at 9 p.m.) and got snacks. Then we watched lots of SVU and some House, M.D. and discussed important issues like who our freshman year suitemate had hooked up with.

Christina is leaving today, sadly, and I'm back at work. I put Christmas ornaments on the little tree in my lab, though, and I am stubbornly planning on leaving it up till the end of January. It's practically family tradition! My family used to leave up Christmas lights until the summer, if they could get away with it.

Now I have to put up with almost 2 weeks of being in New Haven all alone. Uck. I'll update on what things I create to entertain myself.