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osprey_archer) wrote2011-12-31 02:51 pm
osprey_archer) wrote2011-12-31 02:51 pm
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My Year in Review, 2011 edition
Or, ten things I did this year.
1. Wrote a seventy-two page honors project, The New Girl: Reconciling Femininity and Independence in American Girls' Literature, 1890-1915.
2. Graduated college, magna cum laude in course, magna cum laude in honors thesis, Phi Beta Kappa.
3. Went to Turkey. Turkey is awesome, you guys, I want to go back someday and see the ancient Greek/Roman ruins around Ephesus and visit the beach resorts again and wander Istanbul eating baklava.
4. Went to Italy, Florence and Lucca mainly. (Next trip: Rome and Venice!) Ate BUCKETS AND BUCKETS of gelato and also dozens of waffles with Nutella, which are absolutely amazing.
5. Finished Middlemarch. This may seem like less of an accomplishment than the proceeding items, but this only goes to show that appearances can be deceiving.
6. Got a job (my first job unconnected with my university!)
7. Got an apartment.
8. Cooked myself many many dinners in said apartment. I only had a piece of pie for dinner once last semester, and that was totally okay because I did it because I was reading, and if you don't occasionally make bad decisions for the sake of books then you aren't truly living.
(The book in question was Kevin Roose's The Unlikely Disciple. Read it! It's awesome!)
9. Applied to grad school.
10. Crashed my car.
(Okay, so the car-crashing was not a high note on which to end my year, but in every life some rain must fall etc., and the car was not so very crashed that I couldn't drive it home from Minnesota. Let's hear it for Volkswagen engineering!)
Next year: I mean to read Wuthering Heights. I've been reading Kate Beaton's Wuthering Heights comics and I feel that if I approach the book prepared to be deeply amused by its foibles than I may enjoy it. And if not, at least I will be able to loathe it intelligently after reading it.
1. Wrote a seventy-two page honors project, The New Girl: Reconciling Femininity and Independence in American Girls' Literature, 1890-1915.
2. Graduated college, magna cum laude in course, magna cum laude in honors thesis, Phi Beta Kappa.
3. Went to Turkey. Turkey is awesome, you guys, I want to go back someday and see the ancient Greek/Roman ruins around Ephesus and visit the beach resorts again and wander Istanbul eating baklava.
4. Went to Italy, Florence and Lucca mainly. (Next trip: Rome and Venice!) Ate BUCKETS AND BUCKETS of gelato and also dozens of waffles with Nutella, which are absolutely amazing.
5. Finished Middlemarch. This may seem like less of an accomplishment than the proceeding items, but this only goes to show that appearances can be deceiving.
6. Got a job (my first job unconnected with my university!)
7. Got an apartment.
8. Cooked myself many many dinners in said apartment. I only had a piece of pie for dinner once last semester, and that was totally okay because I did it because I was reading, and if you don't occasionally make bad decisions for the sake of books then you aren't truly living.
(The book in question was Kevin Roose's The Unlikely Disciple. Read it! It's awesome!)
9. Applied to grad school.
10. Crashed my car.
(Okay, so the car-crashing was not a high note on which to end my year, but in every life some rain must fall etc., and the car was not so very crashed that I couldn't drive it home from Minnesota. Let's hear it for Volkswagen engineering!)
Next year: I mean to read Wuthering Heights. I've been reading Kate Beaton's Wuthering Heights comics and I feel that if I approach the book prepared to be deeply amused by its foibles than I may enjoy it. And if not, at least I will be able to loathe it intelligently after reading it.