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So, looks like we're at the end of 2008, although I prefer to think of the year changing on Oct. 31.
2008...
Well, it was a big year. This is the sort of thing that I tend to touch on at most superficially in this journal, but there were a lot of changes that went down, many of them painful to live with. I lost Fenris. My family structure changed drastically, from a cohabiting triad to a part-time LDR with Kestrel and a breakup with Lucy, with both of them moving 2 hours north. My brother moved in with me, which is actually working out quite well. My career failed utterly for awhile, my last firm job terminating with the realization that I'm not at all compatible with being an associate attorney at a firm and in fact was a miserable wretch trying. And trying not to believe how miserable I actually was on top of it. (yeah, yeah, you all knew this and could have told me years ago, right?) As a result, what I do to earn my keep in the world...which is a lot of little self-employed type things now...changed in some very large ways. Also good news after initial trauma there; I'm doing the survival thing pretty much OK, and am happier with how I'm accomplishing this than I have ever been. But it was a hard year.
Some really wonderful things happened, too. Some relationships changed and deepened in ways I wouldn't have anticipated. I brought a new kitten and a new puppy into my life in short succession, and both of them are fantastic. I made a lot of progress artistically and finally started 'Bone Shard', which will probably not be completely finished until some time in 2010. I enjoyed some amazing wilderness travel. And of course, Obama won!!!! Though if I was going to be snippy, I'd bring up that since I count the new year as starting at Samhain, that counts as an event in the beginning of the new year.
On the whole, though? I will not miss 2008. And since I remember wishing fervently at the end of 2007 that 2008 would improve...2007 being, until this year, my worst overall...I'm avoiding too much hope for 2009. Still, no new grief processes, at least for awhile, would be swell. I feel like a rather different person now, especially if you take it back to 06: warier, sadder, hopefully smarter. So there, that's my yowl and angst. 2008, burn it with fire.
One of those big changes is growing up to be quite an attractive little feline. Who sleeps in...really interesting positions sometimes.
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2008...
Well, it was a big year. This is the sort of thing that I tend to touch on at most superficially in this journal, but there were a lot of changes that went down, many of them painful to live with. I lost Fenris. My family structure changed drastically, from a cohabiting triad to a part-time LDR with Kestrel and a breakup with Lucy, with both of them moving 2 hours north. My brother moved in with me, which is actually working out quite well. My career failed utterly for awhile, my last firm job terminating with the realization that I'm not at all compatible with being an associate attorney at a firm and in fact was a miserable wretch trying. And trying not to believe how miserable I actually was on top of it. (yeah, yeah, you all knew this and could have told me years ago, right?) As a result, what I do to earn my keep in the world...which is a lot of little self-employed type things now...changed in some very large ways. Also good news after initial trauma there; I'm doing the survival thing pretty much OK, and am happier with how I'm accomplishing this than I have ever been. But it was a hard year.
Some really wonderful things happened, too. Some relationships changed and deepened in ways I wouldn't have anticipated. I brought a new kitten and a new puppy into my life in short succession, and both of them are fantastic. I made a lot of progress artistically and finally started 'Bone Shard', which will probably not be completely finished until some time in 2010. I enjoyed some amazing wilderness travel. And of course, Obama won!!!! Though if I was going to be snippy, I'd bring up that since I count the new year as starting at Samhain, that counts as an event in the beginning of the new year.
On the whole, though? I will not miss 2008. And since I remember wishing fervently at the end of 2007 that 2008 would improve...2007 being, until this year, my worst overall...I'm avoiding too much hope for 2009. Still, no new grief processes, at least for awhile, would be swell. I feel like a rather different person now, especially if you take it back to 06: warier, sadder, hopefully smarter. So there, that's my yowl and angst. 2008, burn it with fire.
One of those big changes is growing up to be quite an attractive little feline. Who sleeps in...really interesting positions sometimes.
( click for Kitties )
