silveradept | Another year looked at.

The last year was likely a year of growth for me. Definitely the trenches of the graduate work, of which I worked my way steadily, although not necessarily calmly, though. Looking over the entries of last year, you see ea lot that

In January, the link parade started so very long ago entered another year or good, bad, and weird. For whatever people get out of it, it’s hit or miss about sparking lots of comments, but I figure that it gives people who are looking an insight into my head. Of course, decoding what’s there is probably the trickier part of the operation.

przxqgl dubbed me an official computer geek, which really was more a reaffirmation than a new declaration. I got my TV tuner card hooked up, which I have put to good use of the past year for both television and gaming. Even then, I complained that my biorhythm schedule is off when it comes to three hour lectures. Maybe I don’t really have the attention span for it. If that were true, I should buy a laptop and keep myself distracted, or something. Whatever the case may be, I only have one more semester to wonder whether I’ll be able to stay awake long enough to get maximal benefit. We can, of course, hope that the classes this semester are interesting, and will thus keep me awake.

January also produced another Five Things I’m Proud of, but in shorter form. It would appear that a significant amount of my journal is cyclical. I guess I need someone with memory or archive-searching technique to remind me when I’m going over old ground. (I suppose, if my archives were tagged, that would alleviate the problem... but I have no desire to tag my archives.) I had trouble then coming up with five, and I still do.

February, the shorter month, had an espousal of beliefs that were valid at the time. At some point, perhaps another declaration of beliefs is in order. There was a tiny expose on the structure of the Greater Llewelynland government, as I saw it. It was an Olympic year last year, which means that I was sneaking glances at hockey feeds among other things while doing homework. There was also the Winter Break at the end of the month, where I tried to unwind and succeeded, at least partially.

March picked up the tempo some in terms of graduate schooling. There was also the usual anxiety about actual success outside, whether anything that I’ve experienced and learned will make sense, and whether or not I’m learning anything or just going through the motions. Some anxiety about whether career choices actually match personality and desire. Paper problems (Aren’t they always like this?) continued to eat my sanity.

April saw the relief of the paper anxieties and the end of another year. I also moved out the house I had for that year, and into the current residence. Having several months’ perspective on it, that move was a fantastic thing for me to do. April also represented success, as I snagged the first of my summer internships during that month. I think I had both of them laid in by the end of that month, too. So April was definitely a happy month.

May brought on Anime Central, which is always a happy, happy thing. The beginning of work arrived in May, too, so I finally got hands-on experience at the library profession. There was also the first time I got to see Play! A Video Game Symphony. There was significant squee in the month of May.

June brought the beginning of the other internship, which was as informative as the first was about the profession. There was OS upgrading (goodness, how long have I been running Linux now?) and significant angsting about the state of my hero complex. Cycles, cycles. The rest of my life proceeding pretty well apace.

July is the month I manage to tick over another counter on my age, assuming that I’m still alive enough to do it. One of the people that my high school circle of friends would never find a girlfriend shocked us all and got married to a very beautiful woman. (In my suit, I felt under-dressed, I recall.) Perhaps unfortunately, this also led to my taking stock of my own relationship situations. The Blue-eyed monster got me. Family reuinions as well, so seeing Dad’s cousins and his side of the family. Always fun to do.

August? Pure hell. Although with bright spots - like finishing Kingdom Hearts II, and the last week of my internships (yay, no more weekends for a bit). That leads pretty directly into...

September, when classes began anew. It being year two, I only had to take three courses for the semester. One of my best friends from earlier in life returned to nearby, and since he did, I’ve been hanging out with him in vain attempts to catch up on lost time. Soon I’ll probably be the one moving away. I stuck through Xenosaga II and defeated the story of it. Did take a trip to Georgia as my Big Impulsive Thing and had lots of fun while I was down there. That flowed into October.

October had things going well, albeit hectically. Preparations for U*CON, as well as the eventual impending doom of projects and papers. It’s relentless - you get done with one sequence only to find the next begins. The fun run of the baseball team ended with a World Series defeat, but still - they did better than they have been for several decades. Upgraded the OS again (this should be a regular thing).

November meant Okami took up a lot of my time, U*CON went off as smoothly as it has been in years, there were congressional and ballot elections in the country (the Democrats, surprisingly, won a majority in the Congress, either overcoming their poor perception or capitalizing sufficiently on the “anyone but them” campaign.) We awoke to a world where state institutions were not permitted to use “preferences” in making decisions like admissions, among other potential impacts. And there was the paper panic in my schooling, too.

November also meant a return of a bigger, badasser version of the Five Things I’m Proud Of sequence, and a gift from unlikely sources of the computer I’m using now. There were also festivals celebrating the need to be thankful.

December brought on the end of the paper panic and of another semester, the realization that the padded rugby team was not, in fact, going for the championship game, but to Pasadena, the VEWPRF, presents and gifts, cards, and the end-of year festivals. I celebrated the new year’s arrival with

welah,

sporklord and his boyfriend,

laforce, and the special guest appearance by

welahsister. And now, to another year, and all the potential that it holds.