How many months, years, have I been moaning about this place?

January 31st 2007 will be a landmark day.  The end of my tenure here... no, let me rephrase that: Not an ending, a beginning.  The beginning of... who knows what, but a beginning, most certainly.

And I'm not the only one, either.

There's going to be an undercurrent of emotion behind my smiles today.  Again, not for the ending, so much as for the fact of the occasion.  No matter what happens, my life changes. Here, now, today. 

Forever.

It is now, as it always was of course, but now more than ever, entirely up to me what I do with my life.  Fate's given me a handy kick up the arse, just to remind me.