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now that 2008 has passed, i feel forced to reflect on what it meant and how i should view 2009. i seem to care a lot less about the meaning of it all this year than in past years though. if nothing else, new years offers a chance to self evaluate. so rather than just not care, i might as well try for the hell of it.
2008 definitely had some positives:
*first healthily functioning relationship of my life
*went on two successful tours with awesome bands and people
*drove to Florida to play The Fest
*recorded my first full-length album
*made fun trips to Chicago and Washington DC
the last four months of the year really drained me. the process of recording the album really just took unnecessarily too long. it just sort of baffles me that people with marginal experience or work ethic can take themselves so seriously and expect us to treat them as if they are professionals. so that, along with an entire semester of an bitter professor screaming down my throat about how to be as professional as possible and listing every flaw you have in your work and personality, seemed to make the year really feel as if it wasn't a complete year.
i really have no idea how i feel about it being a new year. but i'm sort of glad as hell that it is.
2008 definitely had some positives:
*first healthily functioning relationship of my life
*went on two successful tours with awesome bands and people
*drove to Florida to play The Fest
*recorded my first full-length album
*made fun trips to Chicago and Washington DC
the last four months of the year really drained me. the process of recording the album really just took unnecessarily too long. it just sort of baffles me that people with marginal experience or work ethic can take themselves so seriously and expect us to treat them as if they are professionals. so that, along with an entire semester of an bitter professor screaming down my throat about how to be as professional as possible and listing every flaw you have in your work and personality, seemed to make the year really feel as if it wasn't a complete year.
i really have no idea how i feel about it being a new year. but i'm sort of glad as hell that it is.