2010, already?
It doesn't seem like just yesterday that it was 2000, because there's been so much history since then. A quick recounting...?
In 2000 I was six months out of college, with a brand-(sorta-)new Saturn, living in Silicon Valley with my mom, and trying to figure out what to do with my brand-new degree. I had this theory about web programming, you see, and was working for a medical imaging/online teaching project at Stanford University, little knowing that the dot-com industry was going to implode in, oh, about 15 months.
I had a minor in creative writing and this wild idea about being a writer. I'd fumbled my way through one horrible short-term relationship, almost had a fling with someone I had crushed on for years (which, sadly, didn't go anywhere because I was to graduate in three weeks and I was and remain clumsy about relationships; the whole "woo from afar with poetry" thing is vastly overrated and, as I discovered, absolutely self-sabotaging), and was in the middle of building a new crush on someone.
Since then... I've bounced through the Silicon Valley dozen different jobs, temped for years, worked jobs with benefits and jobs without and high-tech jobs and retail and pizza delivery and everything in between, it seems. I moved into my own apartment, which took probably far too long (but given the job situation, probably wasn't entirely unwise), and shortly thereafter moved from California to Massachusetts.
I discovered fanfiction, and then Livejournal, and crushed on all sorts of faraway people (something which has clearly remained constant over the past decade *grin*, regardless of where I live), and found out that writing fanfic and occasionally original fic was pretty much all I'd really wanted from being a writer.
I lucked my way into a permanent position through temping, and here I am over four years later still at what's basically the same job for the same company, even if there's been multiple paradigm shifts in employers since then. I've been living in the same East Coast place now for nearly three years.
I've got a new, somewhat close and small circle of acquaintances. I'm still too stuck in some old habits, and being somewhat reclusive and shy is one of them.
So, resolutions for New Year 2010.
* cook at least one completely new recipe every week of the year to come
* do my damnedest to complete the 3-month P90X workout regimen
* fix my bike and take a long roadtrip, without calling for help; being as self-sufficient as I can
* clean (and keep clean!) my apartment, and hopefully transition from being a renter to being a home-owner
* go out to be more socially active, aside from the structured interactions of games of whatever sort; meet people, make connections, be less of a recluse
* take lots and lots of pictures and become a reasonably good photographer
* learn how to make vids (and then use that to make solid some of these crazy ideas that are floating around in my head)
* vacation somewhere fantastic, hopefully with someone fantastic
... and wow, that last one's not too vague, eh? *grin*
Here's hoping for a better decade to come. : )
In 2000 I was six months out of college, with a brand-(sorta-)new Saturn, living in Silicon Valley with my mom, and trying to figure out what to do with my brand-new degree. I had this theory about web programming, you see, and was working for a medical imaging/online teaching project at Stanford University, little knowing that the dot-com industry was going to implode in, oh, about 15 months.
I had a minor in creative writing and this wild idea about being a writer. I'd fumbled my way through one horrible short-term relationship, almost had a fling with someone I had crushed on for years (which, sadly, didn't go anywhere because I was to graduate in three weeks and I was and remain clumsy about relationships; the whole "woo from afar with poetry" thing is vastly overrated and, as I discovered, absolutely self-sabotaging), and was in the middle of building a new crush on someone.
Since then... I've bounced through the Silicon Valley dozen different jobs, temped for years, worked jobs with benefits and jobs without and high-tech jobs and retail and pizza delivery and everything in between, it seems. I moved into my own apartment, which took probably far too long (but given the job situation, probably wasn't entirely unwise), and shortly thereafter moved from California to Massachusetts.
I discovered fanfiction, and then Livejournal, and crushed on all sorts of faraway people (something which has clearly remained constant over the past decade *grin*, regardless of where I live), and found out that writing fanfic and occasionally original fic was pretty much all I'd really wanted from being a writer.
I lucked my way into a permanent position through temping, and here I am over four years later still at what's basically the same job for the same company, even if there's been multiple paradigm shifts in employers since then. I've been living in the same East Coast place now for nearly three years.
I've got a new, somewhat close and small circle of acquaintances. I'm still too stuck in some old habits, and being somewhat reclusive and shy is one of them.
So, resolutions for New Year 2010.
* cook at least one completely new recipe every week of the year to come
* do my damnedest to complete the 3-month P90X workout regimen
* fix my bike and take a long roadtrip, without calling for help; being as self-sufficient as I can
* clean (and keep clean!) my apartment, and hopefully transition from being a renter to being a home-owner
* go out to be more socially active, aside from the structured interactions of games of whatever sort; meet people, make connections, be less of a recluse
* take lots and lots of pictures and become a reasonably good photographer
* learn how to make vids (and then use that to make solid some of these crazy ideas that are floating around in my head)
* vacation somewhere fantastic, hopefully with someone fantastic
... and wow, that last one's not too vague, eh? *grin*
Here's hoping for a better decade to come. : )