1. I didn’t spend yesterday evening in Times Square. This makes four New Year’s Eves I’ve spent here and not a single one wasted getting squashed into the gaudiest, ugliest part of the city with half a million of its gaudiest, ugliest tourists - and they aren’t allowed to bring alcoholic beverages.

2. I did spend last night with my copy of Vice City, a bottle of Skyy, and maybe the occasional C monkey. There are worse ways to ring in the new year than by taking a break from beating up hookers to switch to ABC and laugh at everyone getting rained on in Times Square.

3. Today has included not even the tiniest of hangovers.

4. Today has inclued a lot more Vice City, and Harvard Man. The latter turns out to be not fantastic but not unwatchable (Buffy the Mafia Daughter aside); all the location footage made me slightly homesick and parts were highly entertaining.

5. I’m still on winter break.