Time for a change, again
The new year has eased in quietly for me this year, as it did last year, the way I really like (I am a quiet person at heart). The only difference is in the location and what I do. Last year was filled with tentativeness and ambivalence due to the passing of certain episodes, adjustments made to life and also the pending prelims + orals. This year will see ever more challenges in the form of dissertation writing (the actual writing), grant applications, and also, in making that major move (+ a series of less major ones). Of course, the last year had been amazing in its own way even if things don’t always go the way I wanted them to. There were some pleasant unexpected events, new relationships forged and old ones renewed, and a greater certainty of certain choices made. Though I am less ambivalent this year, there is a certain amount of apprehension as it will be ever more challenging with projects to work on full time, classes to teach, as well as working with new people and new environments.
Here is a toast to 2012, the year when the (old) world is supposed to end (as had been at other times before).
