annual post
i realized the other day that i (and i'm guessing others) rarely think of the year in its entirety. instead, my "years" seem to change as major events happen - anniversaries, moves, new school semesters. i can easily refer to moving to portland as something that happened this year. but it becomes increasingly harder for me to fathom that the things that happened in january are somehow connected to today (even if it is just in their dates).
i started the year as i do every year - in chicago with my family. i returned for my last semester at iu. i got into lewis & clark. zach and i adopted rue. i graduated. i said goodbye to the 805 and nearly half of the good memories that were housed there. i spent my last summer working, saving money that was spent in its entirety months ago. we moved. zach and i bought furniture and decorated our first apartment together. i feel like i met becky for the first time. i read more than i think i've ever read in my life. i joined saldf. i only missed one class (on the last day of the semester). and now i'm here - three out of four of my finals are completed, and i am two days away from being done with my first semester of law school.
in 2013, i will finish my second, third, and first summer semesters of law school. i will take my first animal law classes. i will hopefully have some sort of internship/clerk job. i will travel more around portland and outside portland. i will cook more. i will dance or sing or paint or sew or write or something that uses the right side of my brain more often. i will keep trying to love portland and the people who call it home.
so i'm a couple weeks early, but here is to a happy 2013. may it take us where we need to go.
i started the year as i do every year - in chicago with my family. i returned for my last semester at iu. i got into lewis & clark. zach and i adopted rue. i graduated. i said goodbye to the 805 and nearly half of the good memories that were housed there. i spent my last summer working, saving money that was spent in its entirety months ago. we moved. zach and i bought furniture and decorated our first apartment together. i feel like i met becky for the first time. i read more than i think i've ever read in my life. i joined saldf. i only missed one class (on the last day of the semester). and now i'm here - three out of four of my finals are completed, and i am two days away from being done with my first semester of law school.
in 2013, i will finish my second, third, and first summer semesters of law school. i will take my first animal law classes. i will hopefully have some sort of internship/clerk job. i will travel more around portland and outside portland. i will cook more. i will dance or sing or paint or sew or write or something that uses the right side of my brain more often. i will keep trying to love portland and the people who call it home.
so i'm a couple weeks early, but here is to a happy 2013. may it take us where we need to go.