Hmm...
I was looking over some New Year's reflections questions I stumbled across online, and discovered something surprising. There were a number of questions about surprising happenings in the past year, and I discovered very few surprising things happened to me this year. A conversation with a friend, the both the high and low points to date of my grad school career, and developing my use of Pandora take honors for most surprising. Everything else seems like a steady progression with only small oscillations. For all the stresses, this past year has been very calm and held many new and repeating small joys. The things that drag on me and the holds and attitudes that are hurtful or need to be resolved are all steady progressions too, perhaps with minor new developments. I've enjoyed this year.