By Ezra
You know you're getting a bit older when you channel some of your holiday cash into a rice cooker and are damn excited about it. Creeping mortality aside, it's been a good year for me on a variety of fronts, most notably professionally, where I escaped college in three years and was hired by my first choice: The American Prospect. That, of course, was a direct result of all you folks in blogland who keep pinging my hit counter and making me look much more successful, intelligent, and nerdy than I really am. So thanks for that, I owe ya one.
We're also rounding on the one-year anniversary of this site. It was January 25th, 2005 when ezraklein.typepad.com opened it's doors, and the solo venture has been all I could hope for. Much thanks also to my weekend guest bloggers, who allow me to keep up pretenses of social life and infuse the blog with a vitality that carries through the week, and particularly Shakespeare's Sister, who carried out the redesign and made the place feel much homier.
Looking forward, 2006 will see some significant changes to the site, which you'll be hearing about soon. I also hope to expand the list of weekend bloggers and attract some expert voices when events make them valuable. We'll see. In any case, thanks -- folks like to say that they blog just for themselves, but it's rarely true. A blog for my eyes only wouldn't have created anything near the intellectual or professional growth this one set in motion, and I'm profoundly grateful for all it, and you, have given me.
Happy New Year. And now, if you'll excuse me, it's time to go get drunk.
