Sometimes I wonder if I would have liked the movie Bridget Jones' Diary if instead it would have been called Bridget Jones' Blog. It doesn't have the same ring to it at all, does it? And she probably wouldn't have been out doing all sorts of crazy things, because instead she would be sitting around writing internet posts all day.
Okay. So, here's the deal. Its about...thirteen and a half hours until 2009. I'm starting something here-- or at least trying to. I'm cronicalling this entire year. Right here. On this computer screen. I know I'll probably mess up from time to time and skip days, but I'm going to do the best I can. So, to start this off, I'm going to recap the amazing year that was 2008.
In 2008, I joined a fraternity. I never thought I'd actually say that, but here I am a fraternity girl. I'm really glad I did it, despite how much I complain and complain now. Initiation was so much fun, and I really feel as though I made some good friends through it. I can't tell you the names of the founders, or any of the rules of the fraternity that I learned about, but is that really the point?
How many great things did I do with them last year? All sorts of events-- and TAU! How much fun was that? Even though we didn't leave until midnight because I locked the key in the trunk of the car, it was still a great weekend. Ten people in one hotel room, the shopping cart incident, being completely obliterated at the banquet-- memories I won't forget for awhile. And there's also just the fact I have people now on campus, besides the kids I knew in HS, who I can pal around with. Its a good feeling. Even though it drives me crazy, I love Phi Sigma Pi.
In 2008, I learned I like to sew more than I realized. I've sort of come around to the idea that maybe I'd like to design costumes. I've also thought about not, and instead going the business route. 2008 was not a year for setting any definite long term goals.
Summer '08 was amazing. Summer '08 was Camp Lindenmere. I really didn't know what I was getting myself into with spending the summer working there, but now I'm in and I don't want back out. Anyone who reads this has probably had their ear talked off about Camp by me, so I won't go into any long, drawn out stories... though I know there are dozens. I'll just say this: trapeeze nets, office binge eating, late nights at Wal-Mart, Blue Hillbillies and White City Slickers, Walter the chipmunk, Dr. Thunder, 3rd major tech crew, pudding wrestling, G4 & G14, barnacles, Cats, Grease, Fiddler, Snoopy, chicken, Amanda's, and lack of peanut butter in my diet. I am so happy to have met so many amazing people: Marissa, Dom, Roe, Anna, Luke, Addy, Bec, Joel, Alex, Tara, Brenna, and anyone and everyone else from this summer. I know 2009 will be amazing because I get to go back to this place I've come to adore and see so many of these people again.
2008 was so many other things: stressing over tests, trips to Canada, trying to plan my future and failing. It was when we lost Grandpa and I wasn't even anywhere near Ohio to be with the people who were hurting most. Christmas isn't the same. It was the year when OSU bombed another Championship Game, but still managed to remain all of Ohio's favourite team. Its the year I started to feel like my adult life has really begun to roll.
So in 2009, I figured I should make some goals They aren't the most sophisticated or important of goals necessarily, but still my goals regardless:
1. I'm setting a reading goal for myself. By the end of 2009, meaning in exactly 365 days, I want to have read at least 100 new books. Good books. Novels. I'm going to keep track and update each time I finish. The reading begins tomorrow with A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
2. I'm achieving a four point my winter and spring quarter. Winter most definitely. My parents are bribing me-- I know, I feel like I'm four, too. But I'm okay with that-- and have promised that, if I get my four point winter quarter, they will buy me a fancy new camera. Like a real fancy once. With zoom. And focusing. And things I only sort of understand, but I am absolutely sure it will be much more amazing than the tiny little camera I have now.
3. I'm going to try and figure out what to do with myself after college. I should go to graduate school-- I don't want to go to graduate school. At least not yet. Maybe I'll intern. Maybe I'll apply for Teach for America. At any rate, I'll figure it out this year.
4. (This is the most important of them all) I'm going to climb up, with Luke, on the trapeeze net one night, sit out, watch the stars, and try not to fall on him like last summer. I will miss all my friends from the previous year, but hopefully will be surrounded by amazing new ones.
Hey, 2008, you were great. But welcome to 2009.
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