The State of the Author, 2006
My 28th birthday was yesterday. I turned eighteen a decade ago.
… which doesn’t really bother me. The fact that I’m looking a bit older than I looked even a few years ago is fine, too—it gave me pause for a second, but only a second. I still look smashing in a fedora, so continuity is preserved.
Oh, things? Things, they are going extremely well. This year, I have:
- Ridden 100 miles on my bicycle in a single day.
- Gotten my first realio, trulio translation gig.
- Had my first wedding anniversary.
- Finished my first year of graduate school.
- Spent the summer as a bike messenger.
- Gotten a graduate assistantship.
- Begun to relearn programming via Ruby.
- Composed a few tunes that I really like.
I would very much like to contact myself circa about three years ago and tell that sad bastard to cheer up, because absolutely everything is going to work out great. In retrospect, those angst-ridden journal entries are almost funny.
Almost.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:16 am
G’day,
Question for you: any idea what you might be doing once you finish grad school? Academia?
Also, the link to “balderdash, chest-pounding, and noisy hoo-ha” on the right hand side was taking me to
http://www.midaregami.net/log/2006/10/01/the-state-of-the-author-2006/about
which didn’t seem right.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Holy crap! I will need to fix that straightaway, thank you.
As for post-grad school, who knows. I am disinclined to continue on to a Ph.D. at this point, and Julia wants to go back to school herself, so I expect I will be looking for gainful employment at some point—either that, or we will move to Japan.