2003 was a good year for me, the best I've have since I was dealing LSD in college. I finished my dissertation, got a permanent teaching job, and had a daughter. It's hard to imagine having another year this substantial actually. Maybe another kid in the near future, but the milestones of a first child, finally finishing school and getting a teaching job with an office are pretty hard to top. I hope that everyone else had good years as well, and thinking off the top of my head, I think most of my close friends (those from Idaho as well as those I've met online) all did pretty well too. May we all continue making lives as good as we've done so far.
The rest of the world didn't seem to have such a great year, nominally due to the "leadership" of the current U.S. administration. I'm too tired to mount a worthy attack on the failure of the President and his advisors (well, they didn't fail to convincingly lie to the American taxpayer to wage an illegal war against a sovereign state and funnel billions of tax dollars away from domestic programs and into the coffers of the well-connected business of the great USA, but I digress), but hopefully we can all agree that a brighter future wouldn't have a lot of the milestones we saw this year. I'm working real hard to develop my realism (good pun, eh?) as a productive expression of my optimism and idealism and as a counter to my pessimism, but at the change of the Gregorian calendar, I'll indulge in a bit of pure hippism and hope for peace, love, and lots of free drugs in the next year.
To get things off on the right foot, I'll close out this post with a nod to Bartleby.com, an incredible site full of reference books and other really useful information, if you're into that sort of thing. Or maybe you're more the Gutenberg type? Lastly, but in now way the least, I've recently discovered that Rotten isn't just the soft, white underbelly of the internet, but it also has a a pretty durned cool library that is worth a gander if you're bored.
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Posted by Nutrimentia at January 1, 2004 11:16 PM | TrackBack