Tuesday, January 1, 2008
happy new year!
I'm not a resolution-maker (I said the same thing last year), but I am all about wishing people a happy day.
When I did a search for "resolution" on this site, to ensure that indeed I did not make any resolutions last year, I was reminded of the theme for 2007. I had forgotten. Then I chuckled (out loud, even).
The theme for 2007, per Dr. Shellie, was "embrace uncertainty." In last year's post I said:
Since last year's borrowing-a-theme-from-someone-else worked out so well, I'm going to do it again this year. I'm adopting undine's 4th academic resolution as a theme (not a resolution!):
It's easier to stay caught up than to get caught up.
Yep. That's going to be my theme. Or guiding principle. Something like that.
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Totally unrelated, but funny: "You know you live in a sparsely populated region when..." you're driving back from Spokane (72 miles, looks like this only with snow) and you get a phone call. The call goes like this:
"Dude, are you driving back from Spokane?"
"Uh, yes..."
"I just passed you!"
[cell reception drops out]
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cracked me up.
Happy New Year!
When I did a search for "resolution" on this site, to ensure that indeed I did not make any resolutions last year, I was reminded of the theme for 2007. I had forgotten. Then I chuckled (out loud, even).
The theme for 2007, per Dr. Shellie, was "embrace uncertainty." In last year's post I said:
I'm a planner. I like things to be orderly. I do not enjoy not knowing where I'll be in eight months. But what can I really do about it? Nothing. So, I should embrace uncertainty. I'm not sure I can go that far, so maybe my theme for 2007 (at least the first 3/4 of it) should be "ignore uncertainty."Why the chuckling? Because (almost) everything worked out just fine. I love it here. [The not-selling-the-condo-yet thing keeps me from saying "everything worked out".]
Since last year's borrowing-a-theme-from-someone-else worked out so well, I'm going to do it again this year. I'm adopting undine's 4th academic resolution as a theme (not a resolution!):
It's easier to stay caught up than to get caught up.
Yep. That's going to be my theme. Or guiding principle. Something like that.
......................................................
Totally unrelated, but funny: "You know you live in a sparsely populated region when..." you're driving back from Spokane (72 miles, looks like this only with snow) and you get a phone call. The call goes like this:
"Dude, are you driving back from Spokane?"
"Uh, yes..."
"I just passed you!"
[cell reception drops out]
......................................................
cracked me up.
Happy New Year!
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