I choose to take this as a celebration of me.

Beginning on January 21st (my birthday!), the DC Public Library is launching a 10-day-long series of events called "Orwellian America? Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age". The program will kick off with a live-streamed marathon reading of George Orwell's novel 1984, and end with a discussion featuring representatives from the International Spy Museum and the Newseum Institute discussing issues of government transparency and national security. Sounds like a super-fun time, right?