There is one way that it might be able to happen this year...My group's DM introduced me to "pickup campagns" Basically, they're short, 2-3 hour sessions with some weird enemy (Past examples: Banjo the Dire Clown and Micheal Jackson XD) Another aspect of pickup games is the fact that the player characters are also usually just as wierd (My own was an awakened leopard ninja that held a katana in his mouth, while one of my friends played a half-orc barbarian/bard/poot master XD) The stats can be a little unrealistic, too, but that's actually normal. (My leopard had a 24 in dexterity and a 23 in wisdom, if I remember right) In short, they give you a lot of room to mess around with things.
They're a lot of fun, expecially if you have a good DM and good roleplayers ^_^
