In December, I visited the University of North Carolina campus to interview Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz for our latest Game Changers video. Everyone was so nice and I learned a lot about the physics of football! Here's the finished piece, shot by Jason Dowdle and edited by Bret Sigler.

Then, I went to see Pina.

And now all I want to do is grow my hair waist-length and wear silk gowns absolutely everywhere.

We made lots of videos to accompany our Person of the Year package. Above is one I made with TIME's Deputy International Editor, Bobby Ghosh. 

Yesterday, while wearing a pair of goggles that make everything look upside-down, I encountered a giant mushroom. Also, I slid down a slide that spanned three floors of a building. I loved the Carston Holler exhibition at the New Museum. I wanted to take those goggles home, but the guy at the desk told me they cost $1500.

The weather has been un-December-y, which has been a boon to the production of my current video project, a feature about James Corner, the landscape architect for the High Line. I've been working with the talented shooters Yoni Brook and Almudena Toral, and the footage looks glorious. Unlike this blurry Hipstamatic photo I took. But at least you can see how wonderful Friday's shoot was. December!

Something amazing has happened in Sitka, Alaska, where I used to live. Some contractors (on Halloween!) found human remains beneath the historic Cable House building, where KCAW's studios are. This is spine-tingling news, because I'd always suspected that the radio station was haunted. Sure, people told me it was just the wind. But when you arrive in the dark of 4:30 a.m. to host Morning Edition and the doorknob to the locked engineering office begins to rattle as if someone is trying to escape...or when you're doing a midnight show by yourself and you hear heavy footsteps shuffling to and fro yet no one is there...I mean, come on. And maybe I encouraged some paranormally-curious volunteers to keep their antennae up for haunted incidents. Maybe I helped build up just a little bit of hype.

There's not much information yet about who this person was or whether their remains are culturally significant (especially with the Native community), but I'm excited to hear updates as the archaeolgists do their thing. And I hope that, whatever supernatural twinklings surround the Cable House, that all souls are at peace.