happy 2006!

happy new year, everybody! woo! any big, overwhelming resolutions? any teeny, but still worth-their-salt ones? i'd like to say that i have some, but i don't. i'm having a remarkably frustrating time focusing on anything. but whatever.

and NOW is the time for the sweeping generalizations about the year come and gone that was 2005:

1. it blew. really. i couldn't believe how much natural disaster showed its face. as i go through each year, i feel as if the earth wants more and more to shake us out of her skirts.
2. BUT, despite FEMA-made disasters, we worked hard for each other. baltimore's running community really looked into itself--we get so many race shirts that we don't wear, so we sent them to those who lost everything. loyola of MD and other universities took displaced students. while there wasn't 100% success in helping those who needed help, there was some. that gives us some hope, right?
3. **IRONY COMING**--> marking time is kind of silly. i got a master's degree, moved (again), re-upped with the worst place of business in the world, met somebody, unmet that person, met somebody else, welcomed a niece into the family, quit that place of BS, became gainfully (and happily) employed at a nice new place of business, am still meeting that somebody else and enjoying it quite a lot, and am providing indirect care to a family (my family) that' s in the midst of a huge transition. that's a lot of shit. and other years have been quieter. so what does a "year" mean? dare i beg Rent's biggest question???
4. the movies were horrible, in that i didn't have enough time or $$$ to see them. and there are so many that i've wanted to see. i think i only went to two this whole year--kingdom of heaven (ding!) and batman begins (ding!, for a different reason). i still want to see Walk the Line, Narnia, and Syriana.

woops, bbl...