So last week was a moderately eventful one for me. Most significantly, I started work at a new company on Tuesday after switching jobs recently. Why? The usual reasons, I think — bigger company, more benefits, higher salary, and most importantly, work that I think will challenge me in the right way. As those of you who’ve followed this site for a while already know, I generally don’t discuss work here, so this is probably the last you’ll hear of it. But feel free to take this opportunity to recommend amazing lunch places in Chelsea.

Last week was also Valentine’s Day, of course. Chris and I celebrated in our usual way — which is to say, we mostly ignored it, being not so much fans of going out in Manhattan on holidays. Interestingly, we both bought each other new notebooks. Mine is covered in fantastical monsters and came with roses, his features a monkey and came with a zombie card. (Yes, of course they’re both from Etsy. Where else would I find a valentine on the topic of zombie euthanasia?) All in all, a satisfying day completely free of last year’s 1800flowers.com nightmare.

And the third noteworthy event last week was that this site turned nine years old on the fifteenth. I am pretty sure that means it’s over the hill in Internets years; maybe I can use that to excuse the infrequency of my posts. And consider the usual regrets about missing the first year of archives appropriately expressed. Incidentally, this also means that this time next winter the site will be an entire gorram decade old, which is more than a little terrifying. I suppose terror cupcakes will be in order.