Goodbye to 2009
2009 has been a momentous year personally.
The good:
I got the tenure-track job I've been hoping for for 6 years. In other professional accomplishments, I had two articles appear, and did a lot of teaching.
We bought our first house, a house which is just about everything we wanted in a house.
We're already on the road to developing new friendships in our new home.
The bad:
My father died two weeks ago. I'm now without both my parents.
C's grandmother died a few months back.
We moved over 1000 miles, which was stressful, and made us more distant from a lot of good friends (though closer to others).
I'm hoping that in 2010 we'll be able to settle into our new lives, and have greater periods of calm. I experienced a lot of changes in fairly short order in 2009, and I'd like some time to catch my breath.
Here's to a good new year for all of you, too.
The good:
I got the tenure-track job I've been hoping for for 6 years. In other professional accomplishments, I had two articles appear, and did a lot of teaching.
We bought our first house, a house which is just about everything we wanted in a house.
We're already on the road to developing new friendships in our new home.
The bad:
My father died two weeks ago. I'm now without both my parents.
C's grandmother died a few months back.
We moved over 1000 miles, which was stressful, and made us more distant from a lot of good friends (though closer to others).
I'm hoping that in 2010 we'll be able to settle into our new lives, and have greater periods of calm. I experienced a lot of changes in fairly short order in 2009, and I'd like some time to catch my breath.
Here's to a good new year for all of you, too.