Oh hey, it's 2011
Jan. 2nd, 2011 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ximenWow, it's been a year. A weird year that was long in some places and short in others and generally just full of stuff. Last year I was too busy moving to make my usual end-of-the-year post, so this year will be something of a fresh start-- no resolutions from last year to reflect on.
2010
Good things:
-Moving out of the horrible house I'd been living in during the fall of 2009, and into the awesome King St. studio I had for the first half of 2010. That studio was wonderful.
-Getting into two PhD programs: UW and Princeton!
-Successfully running several RPGs, including a multi-session game of Bliss Stage and a couple of Mud Dragon sessions. Previously I'd had some bad luck running games, but now I feel more confident about it,
-Going to China for a trip (the first time I ever left the country just for fun, not for school or work!). I managed not to have any huge meltdowns, and got to have lots of adventures.
-Going to Mt. Rainier with my dad.
-Getting to be a bridesmaid in Shreyas and Elizabeth's wedding. I got to wear a sari and eat yummy food and hang out with a lot of people I liked and see my friends get married.
-So much delicious food.
-Making lots of new friends: Grace at @Cafe, Mark and Prikha at Thai Curry Simple, Cynthia, Bing, Aliyah, Erin, and Flori in Princeton, Jiang Lian in Chengdu. Making friends is something I'm nervous about, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to at all once I moved here to Princeton. But so far it's been going well.
-Keeping in touch with a lot of old friends; I got to see Ben, Jon and Karen, Jaya, Jono and Sushu, Karla and Gordon, Rebecca, El, Chris, and Isaac multiple times last year, and I got to see Dev, Shreyas and Elizabeth, Vincent and Meg, Joshua and Carrie, Emily, and Julia at the wedding. And I saw David a few times before he moved to PDX.
-My brother had a second child! I have a nephew now!
Not-as-good things:
-Living in Princeton-- this place is boring! But the real problem is that you really need a car to get by around here.
-Wondering if I should have gone to UW instead... I'm still feeling a little uncertain about my ability to do well at this school. Check back in a month, when the semester ends.
-I've had more depressed periods than I'd like. But it's hard to tell if I'm doing better or worse than before.
-I didn't get to see/talk to some friends as much as I'd like. I didn't get to see Brian, Jeremy and Zach, Mel, Colin, or Aki at all, and I'd like to! And the other people whose names I missed because I'm tired. And I only saw Jess and the Western MA people once each. And even the people I have gotten to see, none of them live here, and I miss them!
-I spent way too much of the past year being sick. And I didn't get as much exercise as I wanted to.
-I'm still having lots of trouble focusing and not procrastinating.
-I didn't really do much in the way of creative stuff this year. I didn't blog much, I didn't do many crafts, I didn't finish a single project. That was disappointing.
Overall, I made a lot of progress in learning to be social and make friends, but I spent too much time feeling sad or sick, and I haven't really made progress on the procrastination front.
Okay, resolution time! I'm going to stick to mostly concrete, measurable goals, so that I can see how well I'm doing. But I'll allow myself a few vague ones.
Resolutions
School/Academics:
-Turn in all my papers on time
-Get my minor fields set and squared away
-Don't miss more than one of each class per semester
Projects:
-Finish my sewing project
-finish those fingerless gloves I was knitting
-make that bus transfer poster I wanted to create
Personal:
-Save 10% of my stipend and either pay down my unsubsidized student loans or invest it
-be able to do 10 push-ups (the real kind, not the knee kind)
-go see a PT person about my leg
Vague:
-Be more in touch with friends
-Procrastinate less, and be more organized!
-Have a living space I feel happy with
We'll see how I do!
2010
Good things:
-Moving out of the horrible house I'd been living in during the fall of 2009, and into the awesome King St. studio I had for the first half of 2010. That studio was wonderful.
-Getting into two PhD programs: UW and Princeton!
-Successfully running several RPGs, including a multi-session game of Bliss Stage and a couple of Mud Dragon sessions. Previously I'd had some bad luck running games, but now I feel more confident about it,
-Going to China for a trip (the first time I ever left the country just for fun, not for school or work!). I managed not to have any huge meltdowns, and got to have lots of adventures.
-Going to Mt. Rainier with my dad.
-Getting to be a bridesmaid in Shreyas and Elizabeth's wedding. I got to wear a sari and eat yummy food and hang out with a lot of people I liked and see my friends get married.
-So much delicious food.
-Making lots of new friends: Grace at @Cafe, Mark and Prikha at Thai Curry Simple, Cynthia, Bing, Aliyah, Erin, and Flori in Princeton, Jiang Lian in Chengdu. Making friends is something I'm nervous about, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to at all once I moved here to Princeton. But so far it's been going well.
-Keeping in touch with a lot of old friends; I got to see Ben, Jon and Karen, Jaya, Jono and Sushu, Karla and Gordon, Rebecca, El, Chris, and Isaac multiple times last year, and I got to see Dev, Shreyas and Elizabeth, Vincent and Meg, Joshua and Carrie, Emily, and Julia at the wedding. And I saw David a few times before he moved to PDX.
-My brother had a second child! I have a nephew now!
Not-as-good things:
-Living in Princeton-- this place is boring! But the real problem is that you really need a car to get by around here.
-Wondering if I should have gone to UW instead... I'm still feeling a little uncertain about my ability to do well at this school. Check back in a month, when the semester ends.
-I've had more depressed periods than I'd like. But it's hard to tell if I'm doing better or worse than before.
-I didn't get to see/talk to some friends as much as I'd like. I didn't get to see Brian, Jeremy and Zach, Mel, Colin, or Aki at all, and I'd like to! And the other people whose names I missed because I'm tired. And I only saw Jess and the Western MA people once each. And even the people I have gotten to see, none of them live here, and I miss them!
-I spent way too much of the past year being sick. And I didn't get as much exercise as I wanted to.
-I'm still having lots of trouble focusing and not procrastinating.
-I didn't really do much in the way of creative stuff this year. I didn't blog much, I didn't do many crafts, I didn't finish a single project. That was disappointing.
Overall, I made a lot of progress in learning to be social and make friends, but I spent too much time feeling sad or sick, and I haven't really made progress on the procrastination front.
Okay, resolution time! I'm going to stick to mostly concrete, measurable goals, so that I can see how well I'm doing. But I'll allow myself a few vague ones.
Resolutions
School/Academics:
-Turn in all my papers on time
-Get my minor fields set and squared away
-Don't miss more than one of each class per semester
Projects:
-Finish my sewing project
-finish those fingerless gloves I was knitting
-make that bus transfer poster I wanted to create
Personal:
-Save 10% of my stipend and either pay down my unsubsidized student loans or invest it
-be able to do 10 push-ups (the real kind, not the knee kind)
-go see a PT person about my leg
Vague:
-Be more in touch with friends
-Procrastinate less, and be more organized!
-Have a living space I feel happy with
We'll see how I do!