somewhat belated year in review
Apparently writing "2020" on umpteen student forms in the last two weeks was insufficient to make me accept that we're in a new year, but realising we're in February of that year brought it home quite handily. Where the hell did January go? Mostly down in fire and flood, actually. This orientation/reg season has been ungodly.
Things achieved by me in 2019: I survived. Specifically, a serious fatigue slump (re-reading 2019 posts has made me realise that I was barely functional from approximately March, I really resurfaced only towards the end of the year when I took to supplementing myself madly with Vitamin B) and another difficult campus semester (gender violence and more student demonstrations). Clinging to sanity by my eyebrow hairs amid increasing institutional and national disfunction on the home front, and growing global political fuckwittery. Sufficient momentum to apply for several overseas jobs, although none of them were successful.
Things not achieved by me: A new job, shaking the dust of the country off my booted feet, global political optimism. Or that fairy tale paper, actually, the fatigue slump was sufficient that I couldn't find the mental energy to actually finish writing it, and I withdrew from the volume.
Losses: jo&stv (not terminally, but they are now Very Far Away).
Things discovered by me in 2019: TERF hatred, Stardew Valley on the Ipad, crockpot cookery, making ice cream, the Grahamstown Arts Festival (again), My Time At Portia, tendon strain injuries and orthotics, the Good Omens adaptation and Michael Sheen generally (David Tennant in tight trousers was not actually a new discovery), The Mandalorian, B-complex supplements, Greedfall and The Outer Worlds (both with reservations), wingfic, the most recent Fratellis albums and Codeine Velvet Club, a Goblin Emperor fixation, mid-life crises, Nathan Pyle t-shirts, Gideon the Ninth, black bed linen.
Resolutions for 2020: flee the country. It's the only current goal I have.
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Things achieved by me in 2019: I survived. Specifically, a serious fatigue slump (re-reading 2019 posts has made me realise that I was barely functional from approximately March, I really resurfaced only towards the end of the year when I took to supplementing myself madly with Vitamin B) and another difficult campus semester (gender violence and more student demonstrations). Clinging to sanity by my eyebrow hairs amid increasing institutional and national disfunction on the home front, and growing global political fuckwittery. Sufficient momentum to apply for several overseas jobs, although none of them were successful.
Things not achieved by me: A new job, shaking the dust of the country off my booted feet, global political optimism. Or that fairy tale paper, actually, the fatigue slump was sufficient that I couldn't find the mental energy to actually finish writing it, and I withdrew from the volume.
Losses: jo&stv (not terminally, but they are now Very Far Away).
Things discovered by me in 2019: TERF hatred, Stardew Valley on the Ipad, crockpot cookery, making ice cream, the Grahamstown Arts Festival (again), My Time At Portia, tendon strain injuries and orthotics, the Good Omens adaptation and Michael Sheen generally (David Tennant in tight trousers was not actually a new discovery), The Mandalorian, B-complex supplements, Greedfall and The Outer Worlds (both with reservations), wingfic, the most recent Fratellis albums and Codeine Velvet Club, a Goblin Emperor fixation, mid-life crises, Nathan Pyle t-shirts, Gideon the Ninth, black bed linen.
Resolutions for 2020: flee the country. It's the only current goal I have.
This entry was originally posted at https://freckles-and-doubt.dreamwidth.org/973204.html. Please comment there using OpenID.