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Evaluation of 2003 Part 1: The Sunday Five
12-28-2003 E 8:23 p.m.
I've finally got some alone-time so I can update without feeling like I should be out "socialing" as Dad puts it. Jessy, Nathaniel, Brogan and Kami all left yesterday and Mike and Jen are at her parents', so we have reclaimed the house for ourselves for a lil while at least.
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2003 is winding down and as Mike and Jen will be popping in and out till they leave, I'm not sure if I'll get time to update on New Year's Eve. So I'm doing the Friday Five Evaluation of 2003 now.

1) What was your biggest accomplishment this year?

Well, that's easy enough to answer right off the top of me head. My graduation, of course, from ISU. It was a long time comin', and often seemed like it would never come to pass. I came close to declaring it hopeless and giving it up, especially when it looked like I wasn't going to be allowed to attend for a whole year due to a rising, but still too low G.P.A. But when mistakes on my transcript were corrected and a petition for readmittance was approved I discovered I only had that one semester left! There was indeed a light--a very bright one--at the end of my very-dark-tunnel. I held it some months later in the form of my diploma. A B.A. in Journalism.

2) What was your biggest disappointment?

Oh gees, this is a harder one--seriously. 2003 has been a better year for me than recent ones since 1997. Seriously, I am not joking. 2002 even started out rocky ending on a better note, but still...2003 has been a much better year than the last several I can remember. *stills and tries to think* I have had the typical frustrations with family and Heather--she's gone Nobody-gaga, as most girls do when they have boyfriends, only it would be Eric-gaga or Blaine-gaga if those were their boyfriend's names--but I really haven't had a major disappointment.

3) What do you hope the new year brings?

More growth in me. Continuing happiness for those around me and myself. A few nice surprises and perhaps my own man to go gaga over. Wouldn't it be interesting if I fell in love with a single male physical therapist? *muses*

4) Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be?

Um, no. I don't do resolutions anymore. I could never keep them. Instead I do day-to-day goals or weekly ones that sometimes are the first and subsequent steps to long-term goals. It may not seem like a readily successful or productive way, but for me, it works.

5) What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

Well, I don't know exactly how it will all play out, but Heather and Nobody plan on coming by at some point to possibly play his X-Men board game.

I'm too tired to do a proper reflection on 2003 like last year, so I will end it here tonight and pick it back up tomorrow at some point. Toodle-loo.


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