Musings on 2008
I hope everyone has a good Hogmanay and all the best for 2009 - it's just dawned on me that for Australians this has already started what with the fact that they live in the Future. :)
It's strange the way things change - in the past I've never really spent much of New Year's Eve meditating on the previous year or wondering what the next year will hold, possibly because I was always at school or university at the time which meant that a) I had exams soon and b) my personal year ran from summer-to-summer, not winter-to-winter. This year must be the first in which I've really considered what I've achieved or hope to achieve in the new year, and it's all a bit scary - I graduated at the end of June and already that feels incredibly distant, and I have difficulty remembering what it was like to be stressed about essays or other studenty things.
Although I'm not really one for New Year's Resolutions (on the basis that if something needs to change it needs to change at any time in the year, and specially thinking up things to change because of the season probably isn't going to work very well) I do have a shortlist of things I want to do in 2009 which goes like this:
1) Go to Australia (flights booked already!)
2) Try not to die of spider bite/crocodile bite/very angry kangaroo/other mishap
3) Try and figure out what I actually want to do for a living
I think the last one is going to be hardest one, unless it turns out I have some heretofore undiscovered ability to enrage kangaroos merely by my presence.
It's strange the way things change - in the past I've never really spent much of New Year's Eve meditating on the previous year or wondering what the next year will hold, possibly because I was always at school or university at the time which meant that a) I had exams soon and b) my personal year ran from summer-to-summer, not winter-to-winter. This year must be the first in which I've really considered what I've achieved or hope to achieve in the new year, and it's all a bit scary - I graduated at the end of June and already that feels incredibly distant, and I have difficulty remembering what it was like to be stressed about essays or other studenty things.
Although I'm not really one for New Year's Resolutions (on the basis that if something needs to change it needs to change at any time in the year, and specially thinking up things to change because of the season probably isn't going to work very well) I do have a shortlist of things I want to do in 2009 which goes like this:
1) Go to Australia (flights booked already!)
2) Try not to die of spider bite/crocodile bite/very angry kangaroo/other mishap
3) Try and figure out what I actually want to do for a living
I think the last one is going to be hardest one, unless it turns out I have some heretofore undiscovered ability to enrage kangaroos merely by my presence.