(dc) new year with spacegen

this year enough of us were broke that we held our annual spacegen new year gathering in DC at cafe philosophe (aka will and jessy and robbie and amanda and chris and john and emily's mansion in adams morgan). for new year this year, we were missing some of the usual suspects (mark, kevin, bojan), but many were able to make it (nishi, george, loretta, justin, karen). juls and paul flew in from the UK (paul had a nightmare connection in paris, in which they were forced to sit for 6 hours on the tarmac to wait for a storm to pass - THEN they flew to DC). kat joined us, as did saadat, pete warden and his friend randy, and lots of other people. it was the usual fun. lots of dancing and food and drink (except those of us who don't drink (this year numbering more than 4!)) and also lots of high-level discussions. new year's day we did our roundtable where we sat together for 4 hours and went around the room to document and discuss our progress since last year on our goals, which will dutifully documents. i'd post it here (because it's extremely interesting and impressive), but that would probably not be appropriate. we talked about work goals and personal goals and collective goals that mostly had to do with making a positive impact in the world. it's an awesome group of friends, and i'm always amazed when we go through this exercise every new year.