Musings on the year past...
As the Elves say in D&D, only those who do not understand the proper flow of time celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of another with rampant revelry. Since I was busy during New Year's Day, this will suffice for my musing post. To celebrate the occasion, I've been digging through my LiveJournal, and here's the basic divisions.
Neopets: I enjoyed, I got disillusioned, I left, I missed it, I came back. One of the few websites with enough "pulling power" to do something like that, and I've also rooted my hopes of "Leaving is not an end" in this site. Who knows? One of these days, I may review my wandering ways, before I went to FFO.
Survivor: RT3, it's Wayne's show; SIX, I stretch my writing muscle, and make (and am restituted to) enemies; SX, I show that I can thrive in a new environment; SXI, I cheat to win. It's been a mostly downhill road from SX, but I've determined to not stop trying to improve it until there's no hope and no one wants to save it.
Gaia: Started as a fling, ended as a marriage. I've wandered away from it from time-to-time; but it'll probably be one of my permanent online homes, at least, until I pull up stakes again. There's such a variety there that the psychologist/sociologist inside of me will be happy for some time.
Theater: "Black Comedy" was funny, but unprofitable. "Annie Get Your Gun" was 'wonderful, in every way.' "My Favorite Year" was the biggest flop in the history of the theater. (We came out $3,000 in the red.) The next one promises to be small, but I cannot say that I'm guaranteed a part, this time around.
Speech Team: Did well, but not well enough. This year is off to a promising start, but that's all I have at the moment.
Job: I haven't gotten one, and that hasn't changed. With half a year to go, I'm getting slightly desperate over here.
Games: They come and go, but all of them are frustrating in some way or another. This means that either (A) I complete it, and feel satisfied, or (B) throw it away in disgust, not to touch it for some time. I'll get around to defeating as many of them as I can.
Anime/Manga: Expanding my collection of the Tenchi Muyo! manga, and downloading/"borrowing" as many other anime as I can. New ideas and plots are popping into my mind with each episode I see, so with enough of them... we'll see.
Writing: Delayed for some time, and most of my earlier projects are now cast-off as lost. However, the muse has finally been hitting me again, and what new prospects I have will have to be seen.
Brother: Wayne's caused me so much trouble that sometimes I want to scream at him (and sometimes I have, though it was when I was "caught in the spirit," heh,) and other times he's helped me do things that I know I'd never be able to do. (Mostly in the areas of electronics and computing,) and yet I have never met the person who "sticks closer than a brother." I know that, despite our conflicts, and despite those people that come into our respective lives, Wayne will always be there for me, and I hope to be the same for him.
One last word from me to sum up this recap. Some people have taken pains to leave comments in this journal, but only three have been doing so with any sort of regularity. The first two, gbeans and Carly, I met via Survivor, and I've grown to trust them, and even to like them, despite our differances and respective age gaps. I thank you two, and I hope that we'll be able to write together again.
One person, however, has been considerate and attentive far above and beyond the call of duty. Therefore, I'd like to thank Andrea from the bottom of my heart. She and I met each other on Neopets about three or four years ago, and we've been good friends ever since. If anyone's been able to see the real "me" through all the masks and veils I put over myself, it would be her; especially for never settling for monosyllabic answers from me. Andrea, thank you, and I hope that we'll continue to be there for each other through the next year. :)
Neopets: I enjoyed, I got disillusioned, I left, I missed it, I came back. One of the few websites with enough "pulling power" to do something like that, and I've also rooted my hopes of "Leaving is not an end" in this site. Who knows? One of these days, I may review my wandering ways, before I went to FFO.
Survivor: RT3, it's Wayne's show; SIX, I stretch my writing muscle, and make (and am restituted to) enemies; SX, I show that I can thrive in a new environment; SXI, I cheat to win. It's been a mostly downhill road from SX, but I've determined to not stop trying to improve it until there's no hope and no one wants to save it.
Gaia: Started as a fling, ended as a marriage. I've wandered away from it from time-to-time; but it'll probably be one of my permanent online homes, at least, until I pull up stakes again. There's such a variety there that the psychologist/sociologist inside of me will be happy for some time.
Theater: "Black Comedy" was funny, but unprofitable. "Annie Get Your Gun" was 'wonderful, in every way.' "My Favorite Year" was the biggest flop in the history of the theater. (We came out $3,000 in the red.) The next one promises to be small, but I cannot say that I'm guaranteed a part, this time around.
Speech Team: Did well, but not well enough. This year is off to a promising start, but that's all I have at the moment.
Job: I haven't gotten one, and that hasn't changed. With half a year to go, I'm getting slightly desperate over here.
Games: They come and go, but all of them are frustrating in some way or another. This means that either (A) I complete it, and feel satisfied, or (B) throw it away in disgust, not to touch it for some time. I'll get around to defeating as many of them as I can.
Anime/Manga: Expanding my collection of the Tenchi Muyo! manga, and downloading/"borrowing" as many other anime as I can. New ideas and plots are popping into my mind with each episode I see, so with enough of them... we'll see.
Writing: Delayed for some time, and most of my earlier projects are now cast-off as lost. However, the muse has finally been hitting me again, and what new prospects I have will have to be seen.
Brother: Wayne's caused me so much trouble that sometimes I want to scream at him (and sometimes I have, though it was when I was "caught in the spirit," heh,) and other times he's helped me do things that I know I'd never be able to do. (Mostly in the areas of electronics and computing,) and yet I have never met the person who "sticks closer than a brother." I know that, despite our conflicts, and despite those people that come into our respective lives, Wayne will always be there for me, and I hope to be the same for him.
One last word from me to sum up this recap. Some people have taken pains to leave comments in this journal, but only three have been doing so with any sort of regularity. The first two, gbeans and Carly, I met via Survivor, and I've grown to trust them, and even to like them, despite our differances and respective age gaps. I thank you two, and I hope that we'll be able to write together again.
One person, however, has been considerate and attentive far above and beyond the call of duty. Therefore, I'd like to thank Andrea from the bottom of my heart. She and I met each other on Neopets about three or four years ago, and we've been good friends ever since. If anyone's been able to see the real "me" through all the masks and veils I put over myself, it would be her; especially for never settling for monosyllabic answers from me. Andrea, thank you, and I hope that we'll continue to be there for each other through the next year. :)