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beginnings and endings
Oct. 24th, 2008 12:00 pmYesterday I turned 25. Today I cleaned out my desk at my job.
It will be very strange starting a new job. I don't think any two years of my life have been as similar as the past two. Same job, same bedroom, same boyfriend, same two nights a week of tkd. Only occasional variation depending on whether I had other regular commitments to write LARPs, watch anime, or build a hammock tree. It will be weird to adjust to a new rhythm.
Fortunately, these past two very similar years have both been good ones. Not perfect -- I lost a grandparent in each one, which was quite sad. But at least they both made it well into their 80s and I got to visit them shortly before they passed. My job hasn't been challenging enough, but well, I'm getting a new one. Really my two main problems for the future are that there are too many interesting people around to properly spend time with them all, and that there are too many interesting projects I want to work on to do them all. If those are my problems, well, I have it really good.
Somehow I find it appropriate that the bike route to my new job will take me past Spy Pond (assuming I wake up early enough to bike in). It was a very transitional place for me just before these past two years began, from a thoughtful evening bike ride in September '05 through many days of kayaking in spring and summer '06.
Anyway, to everyone who has made these past couple years special, you rock. Now I forge boldly on into my next quarter century.
It will be very strange starting a new job. I don't think any two years of my life have been as similar as the past two. Same job, same bedroom, same boyfriend, same two nights a week of tkd. Only occasional variation depending on whether I had other regular commitments to write LARPs, watch anime, or build a hammock tree. It will be weird to adjust to a new rhythm.
Fortunately, these past two very similar years have both been good ones. Not perfect -- I lost a grandparent in each one, which was quite sad. But at least they both made it well into their 80s and I got to visit them shortly before they passed. My job hasn't been challenging enough, but well, I'm getting a new one. Really my two main problems for the future are that there are too many interesting people around to properly spend time with them all, and that there are too many interesting projects I want to work on to do them all. If those are my problems, well, I have it really good.
Somehow I find it appropriate that the bike route to my new job will take me past Spy Pond (assuming I wake up early enough to bike in). It was a very transitional place for me just before these past two years began, from a thoughtful evening bike ride in September '05 through many days of kayaking in spring and summer '06.
Anyway, to everyone who has made these past couple years special, you rock. Now I forge boldly on into my next quarter century.
