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Assorted items:

• Chopped my hair off the other day, very short. Left a few bits of color at the ends, but it's mostly down to the one to two inches of what were recently roots. I'm not particularly thrilled with how it looks, but I got a large number of enthusiastic comments on it (plus a lot of people petting my head) at the little New Year's Eve gathering Kam hosted. I suspect that some of the enthusiasm was simply relief that the red is gone; I did eventually get some compliments on the red hair, but most of my friends were pretty dubious about it. Sadly, I'm not sure any pictures of it were ever taken.
• I seem to be sick again. Or rather, I don't think I ever got entirely well from the cold I picked up several weeks ago, but it had tapered off to an occasional brief coughing/sneezing fit. But this morning I'm back to stuffy nose and sore throat. It used to be that I was rarely sick except for an annual ten-week-long low-key cold each fall, but lately my colds have been more frequent and usually shorter.
• In the two and a half days of 2004 so far, we've received 55 valid submissions, more than we receive in most normal weeks. Good thing this is a short week.

Today: work. A bunch of magazine stuff, I think. Mary Anne points out that it's a nice day out; maybe I'll go sit on the deck in the sun and commune with the Net wirelessly.