2004 Introspection
I've been doing this since 2001, so I believe I am excempt from the "stupid meme eye-rolls".
This is my yearly looking back at where I've come from and where I'm going.
2001 was:
- New Years Eve: going to a party when I should have been at a church function, making out with a drunk stranger, getting caught and being brought home
- oding on caffiene pills
- the Hanover House being shut down
- my Bio lab group
- going from Linkin Park to Dashboard Confessional.
- 1 Five Iron show, 2 phone cards a night, 3 a.m. drunk phone call, 420 out a window and $483 worth of phone calls, 5 weeks as a couple, 6 New York colleges with potential, 7 hours by car, 8 days to understanding BPD, 9-11.
-leaving my church and wandering.
Resolution: I'm drawing x's on my hands, not talking to strangers, and hoping that this New Year is better than last year. KEPT
2002 was:
- New Years Eve: Going to visit ShatTtered, going to Denny’s and playing monopoly
- A month of introspection out of school from surgery
- Trying to be vegan
- Trying to get my hoodie back from John
- Pappie’s getting shut down
- Trying to put together bands
- The Empress Ballroom and everything that went along with it…
- Jacob or Esau?
- Emo jackets with Abercrombie labels
- COLLEGE (getting accepted to WCSU, St. Joe’s, and Northeastern) and finally getting my Applause
- Leaving my church and wandering
Resolution: Don’t date your friends, don’t judge people too fast, and don’t get too attached to one noun. KEPT
2003 was:
New Year's Eve: Driving around Stamford and Westport (the most cliquey town I have ever seen) with my Sweetie, and kissing in the new year at Athena's diner.
- Senior year bonding
- St. Joe's or Northeastern?
- Leaving Cornerstone for the last time
- My first college course and my last LDR
- Going to Northeastern and becoming disenchanted with college
- Going Episcopalian
- Finding Leander (3 months, 3 weeks tomorrow!!!)
- Alienation
- Tiff's wedding
- Letting go of punk rock (Thank you Axis and Avalon!)
- Mono
- Poli sci to English ed
- Transfer or hope for change?
Resolution: Learn to see beauty. Kept
My hopes for 2004:
*Counsel at Berea Not Kept
*Get involved with the city's slam scene Not Kept
*Finish first draft of The Great Divorce script (yes, I'm re-writing it into a play) Not Kept
*Make new friends at NU Kept
*Connect with some old ones Kept
*See a moose Kept
*Settle on a school Kept
*Leander Kept
2004 was:
*Leaving Boston.
*Going LDR with Leander.
*Getting engaged.
*Drama with Boston folk.
*Knee surgery.
*Saint Joe's.
*English Ed to Philosophy.
*Becoming an Anglican.
*Endometriosis.
*C.S. Lewis to N.T. Wright.
*Waiting.
Theme for 2005: "...Perfection is attained through the active and positive effort to wrench a real good out of a real evil." -Dorothy Sayers, "Creed or Chaos"
My hopes for 2005:
*Get married.
*Get into Thomas More.
*Complete "Basic Greek in 20 Minutes a Day" or complete a course in Greek.
*Write a short story and a theological essay.
*Find out when I will be graduating.
*(If a Junior) begin investigating gradschoolness.
*Find a way to practice German.
*Find community.
This is my yearly looking back at where I've come from and where I'm going.
2001 was:
- New Years Eve: going to a party when I should have been at a church function, making out with a drunk stranger, getting caught and being brought home
- oding on caffiene pills
- the Hanover House being shut down
- my Bio lab group
- going from Linkin Park to Dashboard Confessional.
- 1 Five Iron show, 2 phone cards a night, 3 a.m. drunk phone call, 420 out a window and $483 worth of phone calls, 5 weeks as a couple, 6 New York colleges with potential, 7 hours by car, 8 days to understanding BPD, 9-11.
-leaving my church and wandering.
Resolution: I'm drawing x's on my hands, not talking to strangers, and hoping that this New Year is better than last year. KEPT
2002 was:
- New Years Eve: Going to visit ShatTtered, going to Denny’s and playing monopoly
- A month of introspection out of school from surgery
- Trying to be vegan
- Trying to get my hoodie back from John
- Pappie’s getting shut down
- Trying to put together bands
- The Empress Ballroom and everything that went along with it…
- Jacob or Esau?
- Emo jackets with Abercrombie labels
- COLLEGE (getting accepted to WCSU, St. Joe’s, and Northeastern) and finally getting my Applause
- Leaving my church and wandering
Resolution: Don’t date your friends, don’t judge people too fast, and don’t get too attached to one noun. KEPT
2003 was:
New Year's Eve: Driving around Stamford and Westport (the most cliquey town I have ever seen) with my Sweetie, and kissing in the new year at Athena's diner.
- Senior year bonding
- St. Joe's or Northeastern?
- Leaving Cornerstone for the last time
- My first college course and my last LDR
- Going to Northeastern and becoming disenchanted with college
- Going Episcopalian
- Finding Leander (3 months, 3 weeks tomorrow!!!)
- Alienation
- Tiff's wedding
- Letting go of punk rock (Thank you Axis and Avalon!)
- Mono
- Poli sci to English ed
- Transfer or hope for change?
Resolution: Learn to see beauty. Kept
My hopes for 2004:
*Counsel at Berea Not Kept
*Get involved with the city's slam scene Not Kept
*Finish first draft of The Great Divorce script (yes, I'm re-writing it into a play) Not Kept
*Make new friends at NU Kept
*Connect with some old ones Kept
*See a moose Kept
*Settle on a school Kept
*Leander Kept
2004 was:
*Leaving Boston.
*Going LDR with Leander.
*Getting engaged.
*Drama with Boston folk.
*Knee surgery.
*Saint Joe's.
*English Ed to Philosophy.
*Becoming an Anglican.
*Endometriosis.
*C.S. Lewis to N.T. Wright.
*Waiting.
Theme for 2005: "...Perfection is attained through the active and positive effort to wrench a real good out of a real evil." -Dorothy Sayers, "Creed or Chaos"
My hopes for 2005:
*Get married.
*Get into Thomas More.
*Complete "Basic Greek in 20 Minutes a Day" or complete a course in Greek.
*Write a short story and a theological essay.
*Find out when I will be graduating.
*(If a Junior) begin investigating gradschoolness.
*Find a way to practice German.
*Find community.