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I’m back in America for the holidays and so far things are going quite well.

On Monday I flew into New York City and it worked out that I got to meet up with my old roommate, Peterio. We only had a few hours that evening, but we techinically made it through three of the boroughs (Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens) and saw Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, and Rockefeller Center. It was windy and below zero, so we ducked into a diner for some supper and caught up on where our lives have brought us over the last two years.

Right now I’m in Salt Lake City spending some time with my parents and sisters. Thankfully, it’s not as cold here as it was in NYC. The light dusting of snow that we’re getting each day, however, is making me more and more thankful for the Tajik dvorniki who clean the snow from the sidewalks in my courtyard in Moscow. The scraping of their brooms and shovels at ungodly hours of the morning is better than having to do it myself.

On Sunday I’ll be jumping on a plane and flying to Duluth, Minnesota to spend the New Years with some friends and extended family, none of whom I’ve seen in the last year and a half. The Christmas cards prove that all my little cousins are growing up faster than I could imagine, and I suppose that the same holds true with my friends.

If anyone else happens to be in Utah or the Northern Woods of Minnesota and wants to meet up, send me an e-mail and we’ll make it happen.