Unorthodox Methods for Avoiding Snakes

Happy New Year!

It's the year of the snake according to the Chinese zodiac, which will be the theme for this post. Technically, the year of the snake doesn't begin until February, but let's pretend that we're just going off of a placemat at a cheap Chinese restaurant and don't know such things.

A few weeks ago, I told Hannah and Mitka about a dream I had. In the dream, I was sitting on some grass, and a friend was standing next to me with a pet snake around her shoulders. I reached up to feed the snake, (yeah I know that's not how feeding snakes works in real life) and the friend was like, "You should be careful, this snake is..." At this point the snake lunged at me. I quickly reacted and rolled out of the way, at which point everything disappeared and I found myself in the process of falling out of bed. BUMP as I rolled off the mattress onto the edge of the bedframe, and BUMP as I rolled off the bedframe and onto the floor, shoving my desk, formerly adjacent to my bed, to make room for myself.

Mitka, upon hearing this story: "Well, at least the snake didn't get you."

And so here's my wish for 2013, to be interpreted metaphorically as you prefer: May we avoid all our snakes, even if we have to fall out of bed to do it.

That's right, this whole post was secretly an infamous Long Russian Toast. Cheers!