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Since it's NYE, and I'm spending it alone (by choice - don't be sad), it's as good a time as any for an LJ update.
2012 was not my favourite year ever. When 2012 started, most of my family was in a massive bust-up, and my grandmother had cancer. There are some good memories from those first weeks of 2012, but mostly it was just a very sad time. My family eventually reconciled. My grandmother died in February. I miss her a lot. I don't think that feeling ever goes away.
I continued my studies throughout the year. The impossibly boring Accounting Theory ended in March. The first of two final elective courses, Info Systems, went until June. As an elective, this course was vastly more interesting than most I've taken but also incredibly difficult. My "summer vacation" consisted of an Audit case study that I scored 96% on, and yet very nearly failed at the last minute due to a sentence in the last submission that my marker didn't like. In the fall, I took the first of two required comprehensive courses. It was by far the most difficult exam I've ever written. I just started the second of the elective courses, which was supposed to be Advanced Tax, but due to a scheduling issue, ended up being Advanced Corporate Finance. Although finance is most relevant to my current career, tax had an open book exam. Grr!
This was also a up and down year on the friends front. Due to my school schedule, it's been really tough to keep up with friends, or make new ones. Two of my closest girl friends in Toronto moved out of the city (one to London ON-ish via Los Angeles, the other to London, England). A frequent study-buddy moved to a different neighbourhood, and then took a contract in Chicago. Last year's home church broke up, but I joined a new home church this fall, and have met a lot of new people there. I became even more regular at the local cafe, where I've also made some new friends. I had a great turnout at my birthday party in October. My closest friend from Australia came up to visit me for four days in November.
The last battle of 2012 has been with my health. Around the beginning of November, I injured the shoulder of my writing arm. It froze up, and then needed physio. I struggled with the pain and stiffness through the last three weeks of studying for an extremely difficult exam. Luckily, the treatment was covered by my benefits, so I wasn't out-of-pocket. Unfortunately, just as the shoulder was healing up, I started having pain in my abdomen and back. I ended up in the ER, with no identifiable problem. I have now been sick for more than two weeks, and we still don't know what is wrong with me. It's clearly digestive, and probably stress-related, and totally wrecked all my plans to eat vast quantities of unhealthy treats this Christmas. Instead, I have been on a mostly liquid/bland diet, sitting on a couch, doing no homework, not going to work, and moaning about the constant discomfort. And since I haven't been able to do my shoulder exercises, it's now acting up again too. OW.
2012 is almost over. Because this year was so tough, I am extremely proud of my accomplishments, and particularly THRILLED to be so close to the end of school. I have ~5 months left. Hopefully 2013 holds more awesomeness than 2012 did.
2012 was not my favourite year ever. When 2012 started, most of my family was in a massive bust-up, and my grandmother had cancer. There are some good memories from those first weeks of 2012, but mostly it was just a very sad time. My family eventually reconciled. My grandmother died in February. I miss her a lot. I don't think that feeling ever goes away.
I continued my studies throughout the year. The impossibly boring Accounting Theory ended in March. The first of two final elective courses, Info Systems, went until June. As an elective, this course was vastly more interesting than most I've taken but also incredibly difficult. My "summer vacation" consisted of an Audit case study that I scored 96% on, and yet very nearly failed at the last minute due to a sentence in the last submission that my marker didn't like. In the fall, I took the first of two required comprehensive courses. It was by far the most difficult exam I've ever written. I just started the second of the elective courses, which was supposed to be Advanced Tax, but due to a scheduling issue, ended up being Advanced Corporate Finance. Although finance is most relevant to my current career, tax had an open book exam. Grr!
This was also a up and down year on the friends front. Due to my school schedule, it's been really tough to keep up with friends, or make new ones. Two of my closest girl friends in Toronto moved out of the city (one to London ON-ish via Los Angeles, the other to London, England). A frequent study-buddy moved to a different neighbourhood, and then took a contract in Chicago. Last year's home church broke up, but I joined a new home church this fall, and have met a lot of new people there. I became even more regular at the local cafe, where I've also made some new friends. I had a great turnout at my birthday party in October. My closest friend from Australia came up to visit me for four days in November.
The last battle of 2012 has been with my health. Around the beginning of November, I injured the shoulder of my writing arm. It froze up, and then needed physio. I struggled with the pain and stiffness through the last three weeks of studying for an extremely difficult exam. Luckily, the treatment was covered by my benefits, so I wasn't out-of-pocket. Unfortunately, just as the shoulder was healing up, I started having pain in my abdomen and back. I ended up in the ER, with no identifiable problem. I have now been sick for more than two weeks, and we still don't know what is wrong with me. It's clearly digestive, and probably stress-related, and totally wrecked all my plans to eat vast quantities of unhealthy treats this Christmas. Instead, I have been on a mostly liquid/bland diet, sitting on a couch, doing no homework, not going to work, and moaning about the constant discomfort. And since I haven't been able to do my shoulder exercises, it's now acting up again too. OW.
2012 is almost over. Because this year was so tough, I am extremely proud of my accomplishments, and particularly THRILLED to be so close to the end of school. I have ~5 months left. Hopefully 2013 holds more awesomeness than 2012 did.