walking forward looking back
Jan. 1st, 2013 10:49 pmA lot of people I know had a pretty rotten 2012. Mine wasn't awful, not really... just a sort of ongoing grind.
( Could be worse. Could be raining. )
( Could be worse. Could be raining. )
not readercon, not yet
Jul. 17th, 2012 10:48 pmAt Readercon (trip report forthcoming) I had people ask me tough questions like "so, how have you been?" and want a real response, not just "oh, fine." Which was harder to come up with than it could have been.
My current answer is something like: I made it through the grey and gloom of my first Pac-NW winter and it wasn't so bad. Then spring was no better than winter: the days got longer but the sunlight didn't increase. That seems to have kicked off something that looks an awful lot like undiagnosed SAD. So now I'm picking up the pieces from that.
At least, that's what it looks like from here. I dunno. Writing and meeting-new-people effectively stopped after Rainforest at the beginning of March, which was also when workstress started getting to me in earnest. I can't say from inside what was going on. I don't know that I'm even entirely out of it yet. I'm doing more things, and planning to do more things, and keeping up better with the things I'm doing, is about all I can see.
My current answer is something like: I made it through the grey and gloom of my first Pac-NW winter and it wasn't so bad. Then spring was no better than winter: the days got longer but the sunlight didn't increase. That seems to have kicked off something that looks an awful lot like undiagnosed SAD. So now I'm picking up the pieces from that.
At least, that's what it looks like from here. I dunno. Writing and meeting-new-people effectively stopped after Rainforest at the beginning of March, which was also when workstress started getting to me in earnest. I can't say from inside what was going on. I don't know that I'm even entirely out of it yet. I'm doing more things, and planning to do more things, and keeping up better with the things I'm doing, is about all I can see.
years go by
Dec. 30th, 2011 02:17 pmWhat a year. I mean, I got married, and that was about the least interesting of the three Interesting Things I did.
( interesting... )
( interesting... )
gnu year, gnu meme
Jan. 7th, 2009 12:30 pmJeez. I first saw this in ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honeychurch's back entries; apparently she does this every year, or at least has up 'til now. This year, though, it's sprouted up all over my flist. I feel so trendy, or something.
( Another year come and gone )
honeychurch's back entries; apparently she does this every year, or at least has up 'til now. This year, though, it's sprouted up all over my flist. I feel so trendy, or something.( Another year come and gone )
one more come and gone
Jan. 2nd, 2009 03:49 pmThere's a really long year-in-review thing that I've got about 1/3 finished on the laptop. But I'm at work now, so I'll just hit some highlights. The short version is that, as with last year and the year before, the purpose of the forward passage of time remains "to get us as far away from 2005 as possible." Life improves more the further I get from that year and from the first half of 2006. Which I guess means that as my time in Blacksburg gets smaller in the rearview mirror, I start enjoying the trip more. Onward.
People. . . met a handful of folk from OKC in person, which since I'm a guy I'm going to count as a win even if nothing comes of it. I (re?)connected withdarkfyre_muse and babushek. Plus, you know, that whole engagement thing. No new "friends," no new "close friends," but after New Year's a slightly better idea of what I'm looking for. (Though, still, no clear idea of how to find it.) I keep hoping I'll meet someone who just clicks, you know?
Between savings and student loan paydowns, my net worth is now positive (if barely) for the first time. That alone is worth a "win" in the finances category. Combine it with "my emergency fund is nearly where I want it to be" and I'm quite pleased with how the money's gone. The job's well worth keeping for now. Starting to wonder whether this is what I want to do for the next thirty-plus years.
Travel: San Diego, Chincoteague, Seattle/Bellingham, Columbus OH, the Outer Banks x2, and several shorter, more local excursions. More camping, and more varied destinations, for next year. A March trip to Vancouver is already in the planning stages, which is a good omen.
Last year I wrote I learned a lot about myself and why I do some of the things I don't even think about. So that's success. This year I can focus more on actually changing some of those. (Done a bit of that already, I think.) Still accurate this year. I can see places where I've made improvement, where I'm happier with how I handle things. Nature of the beast that I can see a lot more places where I know exactly how I'm broken and want to fix it NOOOOW.
To be done: more writing (on and off LJ), more people, more travel, and possibly more role-playing.
You thought nobody cared but we did, we could tell
And This is your year
And It always starts here
And, oh, You're aging well
People. . . met a handful of folk from OKC in person, which since I'm a guy I'm going to count as a win even if nothing comes of it. I (re?)connected with
darkfyre_muse and babushek. Plus, you know, that whole engagement thing. No new "friends," no new "close friends," but after New Year's a slightly better idea of what I'm looking for. (Though, still, no clear idea of how to find it.) I keep hoping I'll meet someone who just clicks, you know?Between savings and student loan paydowns, my net worth is now positive (if barely) for the first time. That alone is worth a "win" in the finances category. Combine it with "my emergency fund is nearly where I want it to be" and I'm quite pleased with how the money's gone. The job's well worth keeping for now. Starting to wonder whether this is what I want to do for the next thirty-plus years.
Travel: San Diego, Chincoteague, Seattle/Bellingham, Columbus OH, the Outer Banks x2, and several shorter, more local excursions. More camping, and more varied destinations, for next year. A March trip to Vancouver is already in the planning stages, which is a good omen.
Last year I wrote I learned a lot about myself and why I do some of the things I don't even think about. So that's success. This year I can focus more on actually changing some of those. (Done a bit of that already, I think.) Still accurate this year. I can see places where I've made improvement, where I'm happier with how I handle things. Nature of the beast that I can see a lot more places where I know exactly how I'm broken and want to fix it NOOOOW.
To be done: more writing (on and off LJ), more people, more travel, and possibly more role-playing.
You thought nobody cared but we did, we could tell
And This is your year
And It always starts here
And, oh, You're aging well
It's been a year.
Jan. 3rd, 2008 04:01 pmAn improvement over '06, which was in its turn an order of magnitude better than '05. (The purpose of the forward passage of time remains "to get us as far away from 2005 as possible.")
( Breakdown )
Thinking that we're getting older and wiser
When we're just getting old
( Breakdown )
Thinking that we're getting older and wiser
When we're just getting old
