and this year, there will be.....
movement towards change. for lots of people, for lots of countries, for lots of problems (hopefully movement towards resolution and peace).
it's 2009. i hope everyone is hoping and planning and waiting for a good year to unravel before us. it will be interesting, entertaining, frustrating, confusing, painful, hopeful, busy, to see what all unfolds in these next 12 months, but i am hopeful that the year will be worth it in the end by the time 2010 rolls closer.
and we almost always seem to do something like this, most people anyway. resolutions. or agreements, goals, hopes. i'm not about to jump off the bandwagon and be not at all a normal person (because goodness knows there are definitely times and places and issues where i'm nothing but weird and abnormal, but in this i'm another lemming). mainly, they are:
[1] 2009 is hopefully going to be my year of planning/organizing/figuring things out. by things i'm hopefully meaning a long-term plan for the next few years. i'd like to figure out where graduate school may fit into my life, and come to terms with what progam i want to study for it, and narrow down locations i'd prefer.
[2] get/stay healthy. as i have a feeling i'm moving towards beginning 2009 slightly ill, i want to get this over with for the year if at all possible and move on towards the rest of the year being as healthy and positive as possible. exercising more, eating better, taking better care of myself (which also includes not nearly as many absolutely insane work stretches as i'm just halfway through now and did a lot of this past year and getting enough rest and all of that).
[3] explore asheville and the surrounding area. yes, i've been here for the past year, but with being rise and my schedule for my job changing every month and all the insanity that i brought on myself with picking up crazy extra shifts, i don't really feel like i've seen much of asheville or gotten to get my feet wet with the city much.
[4] work on maintaining better consistent communication with the people i care about. i slack off, get back into the communication game, then slack off and repeat all over again. that's been the rough schedule for the last few years, and i really want to get that changed. i think, with a consistent working schedule, not living on campus anymore, and all of that, it should encourage some normalcy in this arena of my life. or i'm hoping it will.
[5] enjoy. just that, simple enough. and laugh a lot. and care, and have some fun, and do things i care about and enjoy and that are important to me.
here's to a safe, peaceful, happy, fun, challenging, hopeful 2009.
it's 2009. i hope everyone is hoping and planning and waiting for a good year to unravel before us. it will be interesting, entertaining, frustrating, confusing, painful, hopeful, busy, to see what all unfolds in these next 12 months, but i am hopeful that the year will be worth it in the end by the time 2010 rolls closer.
and we almost always seem to do something like this, most people anyway. resolutions. or agreements, goals, hopes. i'm not about to jump off the bandwagon and be not at all a normal person (because goodness knows there are definitely times and places and issues where i'm nothing but weird and abnormal, but in this i'm another lemming). mainly, they are:
[1] 2009 is hopefully going to be my year of planning/organizing/figuring things out. by things i'm hopefully meaning a long-term plan for the next few years. i'd like to figure out where graduate school may fit into my life, and come to terms with what progam i want to study for it, and narrow down locations i'd prefer.
[2] get/stay healthy. as i have a feeling i'm moving towards beginning 2009 slightly ill, i want to get this over with for the year if at all possible and move on towards the rest of the year being as healthy and positive as possible. exercising more, eating better, taking better care of myself (which also includes not nearly as many absolutely insane work stretches as i'm just halfway through now and did a lot of this past year and getting enough rest and all of that).
[3] explore asheville and the surrounding area. yes, i've been here for the past year, but with being rise and my schedule for my job changing every month and all the insanity that i brought on myself with picking up crazy extra shifts, i don't really feel like i've seen much of asheville or gotten to get my feet wet with the city much.
[4] work on maintaining better consistent communication with the people i care about. i slack off, get back into the communication game, then slack off and repeat all over again. that's been the rough schedule for the last few years, and i really want to get that changed. i think, with a consistent working schedule, not living on campus anymore, and all of that, it should encourage some normalcy in this arena of my life. or i'm hoping it will.
[5] enjoy. just that, simple enough. and laugh a lot. and care, and have some fun, and do things i care about and enjoy and that are important to me.
here's to a safe, peaceful, happy, fun, challenging, hopeful 2009.