I lived in Japan when Matrix Revolutions was coming out. The posters were up at the local movie theater, a drive-in at the top of a mall parking garage:

The text across the top translates, roughly, as “everything that begins has an ending.”

On Friday I begin the second of my two years at the NYU Game Center. I am both looking forward to the rest of what’s been an excellent program, and am horrified at the thought that in just nine months I’ll no longer be working day-to-day alongside some of the finest designers around.

Everything that begins has an ending. I’d best make the most of the time before then.