Highlights and Hopes

Highlights of 27:

• Seeing a lot of puppet shows
• Making a couple puppet shows
• Teaching a whole bunch and feeling good about it
• Meeting some writers that I like and respect
• Finishing my *&#% $ thesis proposal
• Almost finishing my thesis
• Successful in my attempts to be more reflective
• Finally transcending the intern/assistant threshold
• Knowing that I'm good at what I do
• Knowing that I still have a lot to learn about what I do
• Getting a real, grown-up, apartment
• Becoming a gardener
• My cat not dying
• Becoming an aunt
• Travelling a lot- North Carolina, Oregon (thrice!), Jamaica, Canada...
• Being in love
• Getting control of my debt (parts of it, anyway)
• Loving where I live

Hopes for 28:

• Working more than part time
• Being challenged, but not burned out, by my work
• Easy defense of the thesis, then moving on
• Becoming a better gardener
• Revising my 5-year plan
• Making even more puppet shows
• Being in love
• Loving where I live
• Reading A LOT more than last year

I reserve the right to add onto or take away from this list at any point for up to one week.