2011!
- Posting cut way back due to work computers
- Practice, sometimes 5 times a week at a dojo which looks like it will close now anyways.
- Spent a week and a half living the SCA life out in PA, and loved it.
- Memorial Day Meatup; spags gathering like should not be legal.
- Met awesome Discordians form far away lands in person at the same time.
- Car repair and MacGuyvering through many situations.
- 2 weddings, neither of which were mine.
- Mentat-ing in a red belt
- LARP. OMG the LARP.
- Generally was crazy busy just about every day of the week.
2011:
-Broke up with GS.
-Lived in the worst apartment of my adult life
-Lost my job, again.
-Got a much better, more relevant job to my interests and previous college degree.
-Maintained a 3.8 GPA in my 2nd semester back in university.
-Richter and I did some shitkicking when we saw the Deftones
-Got douched on by Dartmouth Fett...
-Which had amazing timing, because it came the week I was biopsed and...
-Diagnosed with HPV-related CIN-2 Cervical Dysplasia with a pin-head size of...
-CIS-CARCINOMA-IN-SITU CERVICAL CANCER
-Went to Pennsic, lived there for 2 whole weeks this year, best vacation ever.
-Got stupid and fell in love. Again. Only this time, there was a wooden castle involved.
-Got two more tattoos, courtesy of the boyfriend. Including the entire Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear on my upper back.
-Moved into an apartment that is not trying to kill me, at the expense of a roommate for the first time in 2 years.
-Had my heart ripped out, stomped on, and mutilated by Oarstroker, when he decided to go back to his previous life.
-Instead of being crafty, devious, and driving to New Hampshire with a shotgun to kill him, I turned the little happy story I was writing about him and I into a book.
-SAID BOOK IS SET TO GO TO THE PRINTERS NEXT YEAR. 2nd drafting begins in a week.
-Got some new shiny awards this year in the SCA
-Struggled, very hard, with the completion of this semester, partly due to not focusing on work because of life issues, partly not giving a shit.
-Made the solo trip to Boston to see my favorite industrial group of all time, VNV Nation, and had an amazing time. I laughed, I cried, I purged a lot of bullshit and ruined my makeup. Then fed Twid for a ride home.
-Decided to spend both Christmas and New Years in Florida this year, not wanting to ring in the new in fucking Providence.
-Just had my hopefully last round of cancer burnination.
-Got a call from one of my best friends who I've known for 22 years, and he's footing the bill for me to fly and see him in Baton Rouge in January...but that will be a story for next year's list, I'm sure.
I refuse to review 2011, other to say that it was probably the hardest year of my adult life and I'm really glad it's essentially over, and I firmly intend to change important elements of my life in a meaningful way, starting last weekend and continuing into 2012.
Quote from: Nigel on December 17, 2011, 06:35:19 PM
I refuse to review 2011, other to say that it was probably the hardest year of my adult life and I'm really glad it's essentially over, and I firmly intend to change important elements of my life in a meaningful way, starting last weekend and continuing into 2012.
:mittens:
I'm convinced that odd number years are evil...at least since 2009.
This year was horrible.
Some good stuff happened in there but the bad stuff outweighed a lot of it.
Come on 2012. This New Year's eve will be most welcomed.
2011 was good for me apart from being a distance from my fiancée for most of it.
In January I got a new job I actually enjoy using my degree on good pay.
In July I asked my girlfriend to marry me.
Went to Pink Floyds the wall and love it.
In September she started over in Maastricht studying for a masters, I have been over twice so far and she is back for a month now.
From September to the mid November I learned to drive but failed my driving test for the full licence, will be doing that next year.
As has been the trend for the last few years I have done very little writing and wish to do more.
My phd has ground to a halt. Work has been more interesting so I am thinking of switching to something more relevant to my interests.
It's not an awful lot done but I'm content and in good company. In the coming year I am hoping to be moved in with my fiancée, in whatever part of the world that happens to be.
Congratulations on your engagement, Faust!
I don't know if 2012 is going to be better for me, but I really hope so. My main goals are to get caught up on my mortgage payments, be in school full-time, and have health insurance.
Oh, and to have my taxes filed correctly and on-time! :lol:
My father died.
Some good things happened, too.
Sorry. I mean, I could say how the band released a CD, the Tao te Ching was finally made ready for publication, I got a promotion, I joined a new band, and I wrote a song about Tucson that people seem to like...
But that really doesn't tip the scales.
2011 has officially been a year of Februarys.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 19, 2011, 03:41:27 AM
2011 has officially been a year of Februarys.
I started thinking that in June.
I am sleeping through February 2012. I am NOT going through a 4th year of that shit.
Started badly. Got flooded. Broke up with long term girlfriend.
New job in a mining town teaching Japanese.
Brisbane one Holliday. Then Japan again. Then Cairns and Melbourne. Before year end I'll get to Vietnam with family.
Met a girl and used my magicks to make her my girlfriend. Which isn't too shabby in an area where about 70% of the population is male.
Enrolled back in university.
Ended well
How 2011 will resolve for me is still up in the air. I haz a job interview Thursday.
But so far it's been a pretty decent year. Everyone is happy and healthy. My kids grew one year older and wackier. Job stuff has been good. Got appointed chair of a statewide advocacy group, got a bitchin Xmas tree.
I don't have much to complain about ITY.
I haven't made any progress in a way which can be easily reported to others.
I'm pretty happy with my personal evolution over the year, though.
Broke up with my Ex after a steady decline.
Got my Masters Degree.
Started a relationship with Phox.
Moved back to Wisconsin.
Started and finished an internship at a world class museum.
Applied for jobs for 4 months, finally got one in "generic restaurant" doing janitorial maintenance.
Reconnected with friends from high school. All of them are awesome, one of them is more than friend now.
Applied to a PhD program.
Got published. Another one on the way in January.
Was up and down. But right now, I'm in a good place.
I survived it, so far.
:|
Well let's see.....
I lost over 200 pounds in one day. Yes, my divorce was finally final after being separated for 11 years.
I got evicted, fought it, won and now I get to garnish them for what they took from me.
Decided to be the nice person and not put the ex in jail for non-payment of child support until after the first of the year.
Lived my first year as an orphan and realized just how much, knowing my parents were there, made a difference in my thinking and stress levels.
Actually tried to get out there in the dating world, that one will be continued :lulz:
Came to understand a few things about myself and others, I realized I might actually be a sociopath but I'm learning to live with it.
My life is so awesome that sometimes it's hard for me to believe it. If anything truly awful happened to me this year I can't remember it, and any trivially awful things were vastly outweighed by all of the awesome. I'd be happy with another decade of 2011s.
Mostly meh, but the last four months have been pretty awesome. I suspect next year will be even better, which makes sense since the world is ending in December.
2011:
My son went into the Marines.
I got mad a lot.
I hated a bunch of people.
I raged out more than was strictly necessary.
So, same as 2010, without the berserk virus-induced mental issues.
2011...
Started with a bang, with me leaving my lying, cheating, thieving douchebag spouse. Paperwork still pending, so divorce will be on the 2012 list.
Suu and Richter introduced me to this place.
Memorial Day Meatup was awesome. We should do again, despite the fact that the state of CT introduced a Spag Law, forbidding that much fun in one place from happening. We used up the state's quota, so they had to shut down the amusement parks, and to balance the books by the end of December, they can't actually DO anything but sit in darkened rooms flogging themselves with live, giant worms.
Maintaining my own place for the first time in forever. Improvement over last solo apartment. (That one had a murder in the building less than a week after I moved in. Funny story.)
Kept up with fencing, started lending a hand with teaching children how to kill with swords.
Lost some weight, I think, while both not trying and while refusing to even buy a bathroom scale. (Juding by how pants fit.)
Learned to brew. Did a little sewing. Improved my weaving.
Was busy enough with stuff that I pretty much quit playing WoW. Social life, yay. Made friends, found out other friends were not, really. Made more time for the good ones.
Had heartbreak. Got stronger.
Quote from: 'Kai' ZLB, M.S. on December 19, 2011, 03:24:34 PM
Broke up with my Ex after a steady decline.
Got my Masters Degree.
Started a relationship with Phox.
Moved back to Wisconsin.
Started and finished an internship at a world class museum.
Applied for jobs for 4 months, finally got one in "generic restaurant" doing janitorial maintenance.
Reconnected with friends from high school. All of them are awesome, one of them is more than friend now.
Applied to a PhD program.
Got published. Another one on the way in January.
Was up and down. But right now, I'm in a good place.
That sounds pretty nice.
I never draw the links between PDers until embarrassingly late.
Saw rendition of several years work produced off-broadway.
Involved being coaxed back to NYC for longer than anticipated.
Temporarily checked-out of H. California.
Got a couple articles "published".
Maintained a relationship throughout.
Been going to auditions (out-of-comfort-zone points for effort).
The negative I do not recall...
2011:
First few months sucked, failing to find work.
Next few months were exciting! New internship, doing things!
Last few months have sucked, job fails to pay and is no longer a challenge.
Plus side: Moved out of parents house.
Down side: Place I live in is shitty.
Goal for next year is to find better job, and move somewhere less shitty. Failing that, keep this job and stay out of parent's house.
Also survive the coming apocalypse.
We released a demo, which we later kinda stopped bothering with.
Did a bunch of shows, decided to not play outside the Boston area unless it was worth the time and effort
Got tapped to do a St. Patrick's Day show with a squeeze box player, ended up liking it, going to do it again this coming year
Met some spags, including one from Florida and one from the Netherlands Belgium
-went on a long ass walk in a failed attempt to get cigarettes
-had a lot of fun
I moved out of my mother's place again
Turned 30, played a really fun birthday show
-kicked nicotine addiction in the process
-puked a lot at the end of the night
I moved to Jamaica Plain with a friend I've known since 7th grade, and his moderately irritating 8 year old son
Almost got kicked out because of the mail, which seemed like bullshit but actually wasn't
Grandma died, went back to Ireland
Uncle Bill died
Got a late dinner/early breakfast with Suu and Luna
ETA: started making a serious effort into becoming an Irish speaker.
-Did not do well in school. Need to re-take at least one class, probably two. Hopefully graduation will not be set back more than it already is.
-Got a girlfriend last Spring, who graduated this semester and is traveling to lands afar. It was a good time, but we agreed to let it go and move on.
-Memorial Day Spagup was probably the most fun I had that summer. I spent the remainder of the hot months tearing out drywall, insulating, and replacing the walls. Also, sanding and refinishing the floors. And then moving my absurd amount of crap out of the basement and into the (much smaller) refinished room.
-Oh, except for the second Moosemas I attended. Shit was badass, and I regret not being able to attend this year. :sad:
-Had a much better social life than 2010, which was riddled with near-constant squabbles between close friends. Apologies were made at the very top of the year, grievances aired and addressed, and we're all closer as a result.
-Wrote fuck-all. Spent a year trying to find stuff in my head worth putting into a keyboard, came up with nothing.
-LARPed like a mad motherfucker.
Almost ruined my life and then discovered that my life is great.
I did that about three times. That's enough.
For now.
Good year. *shrug*
- got a job as a glorified tutor
- quit job as a glorified tutor
- transferred to a university
- went to a buncha raves
- started dating again
- got hiking again
- visited and connected with family I haven't seen in a long time
Went through a few minor depressions, where I nearly dropped out of school altogether. July 22 happened, many friends of friends died, but noone I knew personally. Went to a similar summer camp the week after. Very strange, but nice. The rest of the year has been good. My social life has improved significantly. Made a lot of friends.
Got drunk for the first time and accidentally puked on a theology student's bible. LARPed once. Went to London and New York City with the family, and Istanbul with the Young Liberals.
I risk ending up with fabulous grades and Mediocre in Order and Conduct due to homework avoidance and heaps of unexplained absence. Started a skype group chat in July and it's still alive and
kicking. I have secret plans to turn it into a Discordian cabal, if it's not already.
2011
A lot of housing, relationship and family stuff that was evil, tiring and overall soul-draining. Other than that
- Won a good scholarship that covered me for another year of doc studies.
- My cats continued to be freakishly fluffy.
- Kept my research assistant gig, which I really enjoy.
- Got my shenannigasms on up and down the halls of the university steadily throughout the year.
- My friend is eager to do more creative papering and egging. She's got another 2 bags of plastic eggs and has recruited another fellow uptight student ripe for 007-y goodness.
- Didn't completely stop posting on this site.
- Got back in touch with a few brilliant friends from a former life I bailed on a decade ago, and they're still fierce little demons (and they forgave me for pulling a Persephone).
· The year started somewhere in a fog of frustrations with my art, relationship, school and unemployment.
· Supported a childhood friend through his recovery from heroin addiction. Smoked weed every day for months.
· Met a girl who I loved on every level and clicked with so well, but I quietly bowed out of every conversation early with her, because I don't cheat. Killed me a little bit.
· Sold my car, moved, started making meaningful art again and feeling alive, dumped by NetGF, moved back to Portland.
· Made a bunch of new friends. Made a bunch of art that is liked by people who's art I admire.
· Started enjoying my reliance on my bike to get anywhere I need to be, rain or shine.
· Got involved with Occupy Wall Street, protested, planned, filmed the riot cops, talked down some violent radicals, and convinced some complacent people to look directly into the corruption on their own accord.
· Inexplicably enjoyed an abrupt upswing in popularity with very attractive, interesting girls punctuated by much laughing and sultry looks. :magick:
· Successfully implemented several O:MF campaigns. In one glorious mission I conspired with a girl I was dating.
· Currently planning an art show and serious shenanigans with my horrible compatriots.
· A lot of my life is miserable horseshit, but in spite of it I'm walking taller than I have in 5 years and finally feel like a human being again.
My 2011 was a big party with a nasty crash.
· At 00:00 2010/2011 as everyone at my age should be on the New Year, I was so hammered, I couldn't move
· Ended the 2010 semester with 5,45 out of 6, so I flunked my chance at a scholarship from school for the next semster
· Don't care, my physics scholarship is four times bigger
· The 23rd of Febuary - The first time I took LSD
· Got recruited for a EU project, where we went to France and discussed the future of education along with two buddies from school. Got high everyday, took LSD, good times were had - probably one of the best weeks of 2011. All the importand people at the project loved us and invited us to come again next year.
· Got back from France, started studying hard, hard, hard and got a 5,85 out of 6, getting me a scholarship from school and I also scored another much higher scholarship for Philosophy
· End of the school year, got some of the best grades in my class. Feelsgoodman.jpg
· Went to Poland for the "Heineken Open'er" music festival, where I had an amazing lesson in why it's not a good idea to put up your tent while drunk of your ass and high as a kite, while it's raining. Ended up with a flooded tent.
· Saw my favourite bands live, met cool people, good times.
· Go back to Varna, start smoking weed every day. Spent a good deal of my Physics scholarship on weed.
· Go to the park, get high, have fun, go home.
· Ate shrooms on a couple of occasions
· Had amazing parties at my house on the beach. Couldn't wish for a better summer
· Go to camp, meet cute French girl, develop crush, start seeing her back in Varna.
· A "friend" of mine lies to me that she's told him to tell me that she isn't into me and to back off, just so that he can try and seduce her. I now loathe that backstabbing piece of shit of a "friend", but at least now everyone has exposed him for the pathetic fuck he is.
· My parents learn about my marijuana habbit, mother gets extremely mad ( turns out that heroin and marijuana is all the same to her - DRUGS!!!).
· Mother suggests Rehab Labor Camp. Fuck no.
· Continue smoking secretly about once a week
· Get caught, almost got sent to Rehab Labor Camp (Does that shit even exist in the normal parts of the world???) for real this time. Eventually managed to convince her not to send me.
· Fuck this shit, I'm not smoking anymore until I move out
· Family falls apart for good this time. My dad is moving out in spring. Untill then it's a constant shitstorm at home
· Both parents nervous and miserable, can't stand being around them, feel shitty.
· Mother goes hysteric about everything. My parents are the most emotionally unstable people I know. Everyday at home they're yelling and/or crying.
· Shit sucks
Overall 2011 started as the best year I've had, but ended pretty badly. I have become quite emotionally numb recently and feel lonely as fuck. Eventually decided to cut my drug use, except for the occasional tab of LSD (it's so rare here (about once in a year or two), that a chance to take it is not to be missed). Got used to shit happening around me, so I just try to keep my grades high and ignore everything. I hope 2012 will bring better times.
2011
- started the year with a brand new Wacom and learned to art then stopped a couple of months later when my creative juices ran dry
- got a lot of good kayak time including rescuing noobs for real in sea state six which is the most hardcore I've had to keep people alive in so far
- got a nice couple of grand windfall which I spent on winter immersion gear which means I can safely kayak all year round now (for a given definition of safely). No off season means I won't be weak little pussy again when the season starts back up around february/march next year
- bought gopro camera which means next year I can video all the stupid shit I do and post on youtube. This makes my inner attention whore feel all warm and fuzzy
- Skyrim on PS3. Last month or so has been 100% Dragonborn
- Scotland got it's first evar honest to god hurricane. Was cool as fuck - a windmill blew up and everything! Apparently it's traditional to name them. We called ours "Hurricane Bawbag" translation - Scrotal sac
all in all it's been a fine year. Oh, yeah, and I might have gotten shitfaced drunk a couple of times and accidentally all over everything
I relent. My year in brief: Breakup, death, another death, faltering business, tax fiasco, son pulls out all his hair because of trichotillomania, more tax fiasco, last-minute recovery, ray of hope.
Aside from the death thing I never had any of those but it sure sounds like suck. For what it's worth I hope next year doesn't suck so hard for you. Sincerely.
Thank you! I really appreciate that.