What's happened to you in the last year?
Please share some moments from the last year of your life.

	I met a lot of good people -- all on the other side of an at-symbol -- who are kind enough to call me their friend. Congratulations, Derek! Greg Knauss {greg@eod.com} In the last year I have proven to myself that this is all worth it. I've met some people whose work and personalities I admire greatly. I've been asked to do the things I love to do. I got a cool new job where I am appreciated. And most of all I have had a Blast! My crowning moment, Derek, was when you told me I could do my own design for my story . . . I still have that e-mail. I showed it to my friends, "Look, Derek likes my stuff!" Wow. Thanks. Here's to a great year to come! Susan Paulsen {susan@ricommunity.com} In the past year I've had a chance to learn a lot and to teach a lot. I've seen stupid decisions, stupid indecisions, and clever choices made. Some choices made me sad, some choices made me happy. I've toiled on projects I hated, I've persevered on projects I've loved. It's been a really wild ride, with giddy highs and somber lows. It's about to get even wilder. I moved to San Francisco from Palo Alto a little over a year ago. I left friends behind down on the peninsula; now they visit me and the North Beach cafÈs. I wish I had done more living, sucked less on the glass teat. The wire to the net is addicting and hard to give up. Now the world spins faster and faster, I wonder how long I can hold on. The big leap into the unknown beckons just ahead. christian {mogens@vivid.com} I was working at WashingtonPost.com, listening to people yammer all day about content, trading content, leveraging content, editorial content, art content... and I was certain that there was nothing interesting on the Web, just content. I wanted to quit. I was surfing at work, in this state of mind, when I found the Fray, and, through the Fray's postings, all sorts of fantastic, personal, interesting stories and Web pages. 'Nuff said. (I still quit that job -- but I made my own personal home page.) And I sent Derek a story that maybe in too-grisly terms expressed how disgusted I was feeling about a lot of things at the time. As soon as I hit the "send" button on the e-mail, I regretted it. I went over it again in my mind and pictured all sorts of shocked and repulsed return e-mail. Not an hour later, I got my response, which read something like: "This is great." and then "Who _are_ you?" michael whitney {whitneym@mindspring.com} The past year has been sensational. I've worked the jobs I wanted. I've met the people I've admired. I've written what's meant the most. I married the woman I love. I've eaten ostrich and alligator. I moved to the other coast. I'm proud of my year. Be proud of yours, too. Congratulations, Fray. Eric Rice {eric@scenario.com}
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