Christmas, New Years, and Marc
So I haven't posted anything since the university closed on the 18th, so no doubt some of you may have wondered if I was eaten by sharks or harpooned by some sort of crazy viking, but let me assure you: my legs and internal organs are present and unpunctured!
So here's the skinny:
I hung out a bit with Audrey, Heidi, and Allie, drawing while they painted and engaging in spirited conversation before heading to my mothers for 5 days around Christmas, it was great to see everyone, though I lamentably feel as though I was still in a post-semester haze and was unable to make the best use of the time!
The trip to my mums was pleasant, the only real stress coming from my sisters kids, which isn't too bad at all, really... (as I rather expected it)... I got a reasonable amount of sleep, as well, so I didn't even wind up too bad off afterwards.
I came back and between the 26th and 31st attempted a recreation of the hermitry of Howard Hughes. I talked to people, but for the most part the conversations were short / not deep, and for the most part I was feeling fairly anti-social, clearing my head after a difficult semester, I suppose.
New Years Eve was pretty awesome, I got to see Becky B up from Oklahoma for a few hours over coffee, and I spent the rest of the evening with Colleen (back from Japan briefly) and Allie n' Brandon. Having done both huge New Years parties and small, I have to say I prefer the small settings where good conversation can ring in a New Year as opposed to a chaotic mass of people. Perhaps that means I'm geezing out, but whatever. The only thing that would've made it better is if my girlfriend was able to be there... maybe next year! :)
(oh, oh, and Colleen sneakily asked me awhile back what my favorite SNES game was... to which I replied Final Fantasy 2, which was 4 in Japan, and she somehow found and bought me a copy of it in Japanese... I just need to find the proper way to display it!)
Anyway, the New Year is here, 2010, which is daunting as... well, I should graduate, and then it's time to reenter the real world. This isn't a frightening prospect by any means, for some time I've longed to become a real person again... it's just an uncertain transition, as I had always been in IT before, and that's the life I knew, and now my work has been academic (either in school or in work the last few years) ... and so... what's a NAT to do?
I'm going to be looking at professional sorts of jobs at universities, that's the present plan anyway, but it is ridiculously mutable at this point that making plans seems silly, but still... I've got to figure out where I'm going by the end of July, no?
I'll be training my replacement this semester at work, taking my last classes (including my thesis), and doing other things that feel quite "final" ... bittersweet :-/
Anyhow, I have become distracted while writing this so maybe I'll post something later! :)
So here's the skinny:
I hung out a bit with Audrey, Heidi, and Allie, drawing while they painted and engaging in spirited conversation before heading to my mothers for 5 days around Christmas, it was great to see everyone, though I lamentably feel as though I was still in a post-semester haze and was unable to make the best use of the time!
The trip to my mums was pleasant, the only real stress coming from my sisters kids, which isn't too bad at all, really... (as I rather expected it)... I got a reasonable amount of sleep, as well, so I didn't even wind up too bad off afterwards.
I came back and between the 26th and 31st attempted a recreation of the hermitry of Howard Hughes. I talked to people, but for the most part the conversations were short / not deep, and for the most part I was feeling fairly anti-social, clearing my head after a difficult semester, I suppose.
New Years Eve was pretty awesome, I got to see Becky B up from Oklahoma for a few hours over coffee, and I spent the rest of the evening with Colleen (back from Japan briefly) and Allie n' Brandon. Having done both huge New Years parties and small, I have to say I prefer the small settings where good conversation can ring in a New Year as opposed to a chaotic mass of people. Perhaps that means I'm geezing out, but whatever. The only thing that would've made it better is if my girlfriend was able to be there... maybe next year! :)
(oh, oh, and Colleen sneakily asked me awhile back what my favorite SNES game was... to which I replied Final Fantasy 2, which was 4 in Japan, and she somehow found and bought me a copy of it in Japanese... I just need to find the proper way to display it!)
Anyway, the New Year is here, 2010, which is daunting as... well, I should graduate, and then it's time to reenter the real world. This isn't a frightening prospect by any means, for some time I've longed to become a real person again... it's just an uncertain transition, as I had always been in IT before, and that's the life I knew, and now my work has been academic (either in school or in work the last few years) ... and so... what's a NAT to do?
I'm going to be looking at professional sorts of jobs at universities, that's the present plan anyway, but it is ridiculously mutable at this point that making plans seems silly, but still... I've got to figure out where I'm going by the end of July, no?
I'll be training my replacement this semester at work, taking my last classes (including my thesis), and doing other things that feel quite "final" ... bittersweet :-/
Anyhow, I have become distracted while writing this so maybe I'll post something later! :)