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All things considered, a good year. Emblematic of this, perhaps, is the fact that I don't even have time to do a proper year-in-review post because I've got to get ready to go out clubbing.

Still:

Things I Was Thankful For in 2008 In No Particular Order: Daniel [aka hofnarr]; I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling; writing; writing with rm; magnetgirl and Ian, as well as their new abode and its swallow-you-whole-couches: The Manor; faris_nallaneen's once a week visits; my parents; hearing about sykii & askeladden's plans (God, we're really grownups!); winning a fellowship to support my dissertation; Torchwood fandom; fandom in general; some really awesome television, including: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Merlin, Supernatural, and a late contender just under the wire, True Blood; my study; my house in general; netflix watch instantly cue; the trip to "Film and History" in Chicago with magnetgirl; cutting my hair off; seeing Tom Stoppard's Rock and Roll, In the Heights' Tony Award, seeing Red Bull Theatre's Women Beware Women with faris_nallaneen, discovering David Tennant, the presidential election; Just a Taste, trip to Woodstock, my ipod, jack and gingers, battling nuf-ness, succumbing to nuf-ness, Tukun and possible trips to London; lime cilantro basil gelato; peach champagne gelato; mexican chocolate; neighborhood bars; sangria; dive bar; cafe con leche; the regency ball; seeing The Duchess; reading; going to my parents' house with D.; having my parents over for dinner here; making book art; snuggles with Dave; good birthday parties; Tam coming home; awesomely kinky sex; leaving Lehman; trip to India with faris_nallaneen; seeing all my relatives esp. Dida, and Mamima; living through that car accident; Tukai coming to the States; teaching kidlit @ Hunter; used bookstores; good food; swimming pools; my lj f-list [you guys rock so hard!]; everyone who comments on my and our stories; and at the end, Daniel again, because he deserves mentioning twice.

New Year's Resolutions: I will make a schedule and stick to it. I will finish (start?) my dissertation. Rach and I will get our novel done. I will go to the gym. I will cook more. I will make music. This year is my learn-to-vid year. I will write more.

Roll on, 2009. See y'all next year & have a fantastic, brilliant night.

This year I...
was 24.
ended a relationship...except not really.
graduated from college, though never was actually sent my diploma, making me 0 for 2 on the expensive pieces of paper front.
left Ithaca.
moved back to new york, and became alive again.
began graduate school.
realised that I am really not a white-picket-fence girl, as I sometimes imagine.
read a lot of fanfiction.
became severely ill only twice.
discovered I am more physically defective than I thought, but dealt with it in a reasonable and timely fashion.
went to my first Pride, and had a glorious time.
protested the government.
protested the war.
cried, with actual tears, over something political and not immediately personal.
actually voted in a real voting booth instead of by absentee ballot.
raced on camel-back (and won).
rode an elephant.
made at least four new friends.
traveled to: Jaisalmir, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Calcutta, Agra, Delhi, London, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Seattle.
was paid to travel somewhere, for the first time.
moved back in with my parents, which is alternatively fun, safe, and intellectually stimulating, and horrifically unpleasant, depending on the day, or hour, or minute.
earned enough money to (sort of) support myself.
re-discovered the regency period, and watched as the whole world seemed to converge on it, joyously.
learnt to play whist.
got a cellphone, and joined the age of communication.
killed three computers and resurrected two.
drank absinthe (and enjoyed it greatly).
was intrigued, by many possibilities.
went to see four extremely good plays, and two very bad ones.
joined a gym.
began learning medieval welsh.
started two novels.
wrote one poem.
wrote three long essays on Shakespeare, Ursula Le Guin, and the Mabinogion.

movie, book, television and music list to follow tomorrow.
Now must flee to small gathering thing.

Happy New Year, Everyone. I hope this coming year is a more compassionate, safer, and better one than the last - for all of us. Blessed be.