I hope you all had a good New Year’s celebration! I tried valiantly to convince myself I wasn’t coming down with something, which worked until about 1 AM on January 1, when I collapsed into bed and slept my way through most of the first day of the new year. Tonight, I’m hoping that my cold will somehow magically vanish during a 13 hour flight to Hong Kong, although I haven’t seen anything about the curative properties of trans-Pacific airplane flights documented anywhere (Don’t worry, I’ll actually be wearing a surgical mask and taking sleeping pills to avoid being the obnoxious person sniffling and infecting everyone else on the plane).
