Last year I celebrated the coming of the new year in Japan working the graveyard shift by myself watching the glowing red atomic clock on the wall turn to 001:00:00:00 (the clock kept track of days too).
This year I spend it on my couch surrounded by half a dozen friends yelling "get to the choppa!" and "oh, no, Anold’s biceps, take another drink" at each other. Who would’a known that watching The Predator would make such a good drinking game?
I think this year’s festivities win.
Overall I’d have to say 2006 was a pretty good year. Aside from the lame way of starting off the year, spending the first half of it in Japan was wonderful. Coming back to the states and managing to get myself transfered out of MD back home was defiantly a step in the right direction. I’ve read more books this year than I had in my entire life (aside from text books). I’ve gone from not being able to run for more than five minutes without dying to being able to run seven minute miles and go for ten miles (mutually exclusive at the moment) without much trouble. I’ve started sketching again (although not enough).
What does 2007 hold? How could it compete with such an enjoyable and productive previous year?
So far it can’t. It looks like it’ll be filled with boring 0800-1600 days of work in a cube farm. This must be combated, I can’t settle for a bland year. I don’t think I’ll be traveling half-way around the world again (although I would jump at the opportunity), but there are some things I want to do to make sure 2007 is notable too:
Oh, and of course I want to be more social. Part of moving back from MD was the well-known fact that all the cool people live in PA (or at least come from PA). Now that I’m back I need to make sure I take advantage of this.
As I said I quit WoW some time ago, so I do have more free time. However running for an hour or more every day cuts into said time. I need to make sure all of the things I want to accomplish this year don’t get in the way of just hanging out and having fun, as my side-activities have in the past. I’ll be an interesting balancing act of time, but I’m sure with enough people poking at me to hang out with them it’ll work out just fine *wink wink, nudge nudge*.
