2009
Well, here's my obligatory New Year's Post. A bit delayed, but ah well.
2008 was a fairly good year. Nothing horrible happened, I survived my time abroad, got my summer job back, took a class at Tufts and started my senior year of college. Can't complain there. I haven't really been as social as I sometimes wish, but with all the work I have and wanting to spend time with Josh on the weekends that's kinda what happens. It's my own doing.
Classes this semester were difficult, and I really do think I had one of my heaviest workloads in a long time. Yet to my own surprise I was somehow able to pull off 3 A-'s and an A. It was an interesting way to start off 2009 and my senior year. Getting all A's in my classes has been a goal of mine since middle school and something I haven't been able to do prior to this. It's been one of those things in the back of my mind that I wanted to do, but I figured since I was in college I should stop trying to hold myself to that standard and just to the best I could (which is not to say I've done badly...). It was particularly shocking because I got a 68 on my History midterm which was 25% of my final grade. I was pretty sure I would be getting a B in that class. It was just a nice way to start off the year and end 2008 on such a positive note, academically.
Home is home. I survived my surgery with little incident and spent my 2 weeks on crutches. Came off of them on Tuesday and I've got most of the muscle working properly again. I am still supposed to be taking it slow and "shuffling like a grandma," while I am taking it slow I decided to walk a little more normally and just be careful about it. As for family, my sister is most definitely a teenager and getting into a fair number of fights with my mother in ways I never did. Unfortunately, the end of the year brought some upsetting news about my dad health-wise. He had a routine colonoscopy after Christmas and it turns out they found a cancerous polyp. It's in the very early stages and and there is lots that can be done, but at this point he's just having a lot of tests and blood work done. I honestly don't know much more than that. Usually medical stuff like this is talked about a lot in my family, but there's just not that much to talk about at this point and we don't know what's going to happen.
As for New Years Eve, Josh and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary in Boston. We had dinner and then met up with friends to try to take advantage of the First Night events which we paid $18 for. However, with a windchill of -5 degrees and winds of 20mph off the water things got very cold, very fast. On our way from concert at The Castle to the Boston Public Library we decided to forego the right hand turn to Copley Plaza and opted for at left hand turn to Back Bay Station - at 9pm. We were in the warmth of my house by 10:30 and playing hearts and cribbage by 11.
I'm looking forward to 2009. I've got one more semester full of music and sociology classes, graduation, and a life in the Real World to start. 2009 has to the potential to to bring a lot of great unknown things. I'm not sure I've ever started off a year with so little known about where I was going or what I was going to do, and while it's daunting and a little scary to think about it's also pretty exciting.
2008 was a fairly good year. Nothing horrible happened, I survived my time abroad, got my summer job back, took a class at Tufts and started my senior year of college. Can't complain there. I haven't really been as social as I sometimes wish, but with all the work I have and wanting to spend time with Josh on the weekends that's kinda what happens. It's my own doing.
Classes this semester were difficult, and I really do think I had one of my heaviest workloads in a long time. Yet to my own surprise I was somehow able to pull off 3 A-'s and an A. It was an interesting way to start off 2009 and my senior year. Getting all A's in my classes has been a goal of mine since middle school and something I haven't been able to do prior to this. It's been one of those things in the back of my mind that I wanted to do, but I figured since I was in college I should stop trying to hold myself to that standard and just to the best I could (which is not to say I've done badly...). It was particularly shocking because I got a 68 on my History midterm which was 25% of my final grade. I was pretty sure I would be getting a B in that class. It was just a nice way to start off the year and end 2008 on such a positive note, academically.
Home is home. I survived my surgery with little incident and spent my 2 weeks on crutches. Came off of them on Tuesday and I've got most of the muscle working properly again. I am still supposed to be taking it slow and "shuffling like a grandma," while I am taking it slow I decided to walk a little more normally and just be careful about it. As for family, my sister is most definitely a teenager and getting into a fair number of fights with my mother in ways I never did. Unfortunately, the end of the year brought some upsetting news about my dad health-wise. He had a routine colonoscopy after Christmas and it turns out they found a cancerous polyp. It's in the very early stages and and there is lots that can be done, but at this point he's just having a lot of tests and blood work done. I honestly don't know much more than that. Usually medical stuff like this is talked about a lot in my family, but there's just not that much to talk about at this point and we don't know what's going to happen.
As for New Years Eve, Josh and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary in Boston. We had dinner and then met up with friends to try to take advantage of the First Night events which we paid $18 for. However, with a windchill of -5 degrees and winds of 20mph off the water things got very cold, very fast. On our way from concert at The Castle to the Boston Public Library we decided to forego the right hand turn to Copley Plaza and opted for at left hand turn to Back Bay Station - at 9pm. We were in the warmth of my house by 10:30 and playing hearts and cribbage by 11.
I'm looking forward to 2009. I've got one more semester full of music and sociology classes, graduation, and a life in the Real World to start. 2009 has to the potential to to bring a lot of great unknown things. I'm not sure I've ever started off a year with so little known about where I was going or what I was going to do, and while it's daunting and a little scary to think about it's also pretty exciting.