December 31st, 2009
I was going to do a grand “year in review” post, but it’s unnecessary. An outline of spring semester is here, the summer summary is here, and the outline of fall semester is here.
This was the year of surprises. Here are 10 unexpected things that happened this year, in no particular order…
- Moved out of the fraternity house into my first apartment.
- Bought a car.
- Adopted Harley-Scalia, a 100-pound bullmastiff rescue, who had heartworm.
- Got shot, and studied for property in the ER.
- Went to Bemidji.
- Had a viable tort claim against the law school.
- Got a job via twitter.
- Dated (one, two, three).
- Lived on the set of Grand Theft Auto, including shootings, semi-paralyzed mothers, crackheads, and police drama.
- Passed Tax Law.
I’m quieter, tired, but still smirking.
December 31st, 2009
Every time someone asks me about my New Year’s resolutions, I think about this Brenda Ueland quote:
“When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won’t do the thing.
“If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it.
“And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years – the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.”
Damn straight.
I prefer keeping a private bible: a little list of goals, and a few quotes. It keeps me mindful and focused, and works.
One of my goals1 is to write here more often. There were few substantive posts last semester because I was either studying, or working, or in a state of irritation2 or pettiness.
So, the goal, or resolution, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it is to live a life that I can blog about. This means I need to develop a better immunity to life’s daily annoyances2 and be as positive as possible without parroting Wavey.
We’ll see how I do.
1 Lest I say
resolutions…
2 The things that I was preoccupied with were not blog fodder – subjects impolite to write about and things that I suspect I don’t want to remember, ie, being annoyed at the boyfriend for not calling, insanely loud girl at work and her liquid leggings, off topic guy in class, etc.
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