----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- on 2017 I stole this from Narcissa because a) I liked it b) I miss the way we all used to document our lives through Diaryland instead of this newfangled social media 1. What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before? Started teaching full time (does that count? I mean, I'd taught before...but, serious career change. OK, maybe it's that: Serious career change). It was sometimes terrifying, sometimes exhilarating and most definitely exhausting. I'm so glad I did it. 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? New Year's 2017 coincided with the craziness that was interviewing and getting the new job and in the thick of it all I forgot to really make substantial resolutions beyond 'read more', 'write more', 'exercise more'. This year I’ve resolved to spend more quality time with friends and, also, to devote much of my summer to writing. 3. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017? TIME. More energy and better sleep. I'm always tired and yet I have trouble sleeping. 4. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Completing that first year on the job. Hired just a week before the semester started it felt as though I was motored out to the center of the ocean, given a Titanic-styled life raft and thrown overboard. That said, this semester I can already see how the work I put in this last year is paying off in ways both big and small. It was hard to see that safety of shore when it felt as though I was drowning. 6. Did you suffer illness or injury? Not really or at least not that I know of. I did suffer from a profound lack of decent sleep. 7. Whose behavior merited celebration? My husband--he was my lifeline that first semester, especially on the nights I worked from 9-3, came home and napped and then worked again from 6-11. Without fail he fixed dinner, did the chores and poured me a nightcap. 8. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Ugh, 45 to be sure--and all the people who support him. 9. Where did most of your money go? If I'm being honest, mostly clothes. But also my train trip to Chicago/Washington state and also some trips to Oregon.
11. What song will always remind you of 2017? I don't know if I can think of a single song. I listened to a lot of Gillian Welch, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Japanese Breakfast, etc... 12. Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer? a) i think about the same. b) definitely fatter c) about the same. 2:56 pm - 26.01.18
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